#1983 Marsha

[littlequeenies]

1983 Theatre program for the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

This play was represented from 25th November 1982 to 5th October 1983 at the Cottesloe Theatre, then at The Lyttelton Theatre, then toured in Bath Theatre Royal, Cardiff New Theatre, Glasgow Theatre Royal and returned to The Lyttelton Theatre.

Marsha Hunt plays the role of Hippolyta.

From e-bay.

[genderoutlaws]

Marsha P. Johnson with friends

December 25th, 1983

[star-anise]

reading supercut: disability, body image, and trauma

A glimpse into the clothes thrashing around in the washing machine of my mind, with apologies that it is still a wet lump and not an actual synthesis of ideas.

From Easy Beauty: A Memoir by Chloé Cooper Jones:

[This event] embedded a damaging idea in me, one I’d recognize deeply when I read Scarry years later: beauty was a matter of particulars aligning correctly. My body put me in a bracketed, undercredited sense of beauty. But if I could get the particulars lined up just right, I could be re-seen, discovered like the palm tree is discovered. To be deserving of the whole range of human desires, I had to be extraordinary in all other aspects. In this new light, I started to see my work, my intellect, my skills, my moments of humor or goodness, not as valuable in themselves, but as ways of easing the impact of my ugliness. If only I could pile up enough good qualities, they could obscure my unacceptable body. [...] accepting the argument that beauty was malleable came, for me, with a cost. The Platonian view rejected me cleanly, but Hume and Scarry left a door ajar and I’ve spent a lifetime trying to contort my form to see if I could pass through it.

From Til We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by CS Lewis:

I now determined that I would go always veiled. I have kept this rule, within doors and without, ever since. It is a sort of treaty made with my ugliness. There had been a time in childhood when I didn't yet know I was ugly. Then there was a time (for in this book I must hide none of my shames or follies) when I believed, as girls do — and as Batta was always telling me — that I could make it more tolerable by this or that done to my clothes or my hair. Now, I chose to be veiled.

From Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha Linehan:

Inhibited grieving is understandable among borderline patients. People can only stay with a very painful process or experience if they are confident that it will end some day, some time—that they can "work through it," so to speak. It is not uncommon to hear borderline patients say they feel that if they ever do cry, they will never stop Indeed, that is their common experience—the experience of not being able to control or modulate their own emotional experiences. [...] In the face of such helplessness and lack of control, inhibition and avoidance of cues associated with grieving are not only understandable, bur perhaps wise at times. Inhibition, however, has its costs. [...] Volkan (1983) describes an interesting phenomenon, "established pathological mourning", which is similar to the pattern I am describing. In established pathological mourning, the individual wishes to complete mourning, but at the same time persistently attempts to undo the reality of the loss.

From How to Respond to Criticism by Danny Lavery:

Apologize, but don’t really mean it, and plant a seed of secret resentment so deep in your own heart that years later you can’t even remember that you’re the one who nurtured it and made it grow, it seems that much like a native part of you.

From Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed:

[After learning that state child protective services had made a budgetary decision to only intervene with children under 12, to one of the teenagers that regularly shared stories of abuse at home] I told her it was not okay, that it was unacceptable, that it was illegal and that I would call and report this latest, horrible thing. But I did not tell her it would stop. I did not promise that anyone would intervene. I told her it would likely go on and she’d have to survive it. That she’d have to find a way within herself to not only escape the shit, but to transcend it [...] I told her that escaping the shit would be hard, but that if she wanted to not make her mother’s life her destiny, she had to be the one to make it happen. She had to do more than hold on. She had to reach. She had to want it more than she’d ever wanted anything. She had to grab like a drowning girl for every good thing that came her way and she had to swim like fuck away from every bad thing. She had to count the years and let them roll by, to grow up and then run as far as she could in the direction of her best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by her own desire to heal.

From Essays in Aesthetics by Jean-Paul Sartre:

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

From "I Know What You Think of Me" by Tim Kreider:

if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.

[emma-dennehy-presents]

Celebrating Black Queer Icons:

Tourmaline

Tourmaline (formerly known/credited as Reian Gossett)is a trans woman that actively identifies as queer, and is best known for her work in trans activism and economic justice. Tourmaline was born July 20, 1983, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Tourmaline's mother was a feminist and union organizer, her father a self defense instructor and anti-imprisonment advocate. Growing up in this atmosphere allowed Tourmaline to explore her identity and encouraged her to fight in what she believes in. Tourmaline has earned a BA in Comparative Ethnic Studies, from Colombia University. During her time at Colombia U, Tourmaline taught creative writing courses to inmates at Riker's Island Correctional Institute, through a school program known as Island Academy. Tourmaline has worked with many groups and organizations in her pursuit of justice. She served as the Membership Coordinator for Queers For Economic Justice, Director of Membership at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and as a Featured Speaker for GLAAD. Tourmaline also works as a historian and archivist for drag queens and trans people associated with the 1969 Stonewall Inn Uprising. She started doing this after noticing how little trans material was being archived, saying that what little did get archived was done so accidentally. In 2010 Tourmaline began her work in film by gathering oral histories from queer New Yorkers for Kagendo Murungi's Taking Freedom Home. In 2016 Tourmaline directed her first film The Personal Things, which featured trans elder Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. For the film Tourmaline was awarded the 2017 Queer Art Prize. Tourmaline served as the Assistant Director to Dee Rees on the Golden Globe nominated historical drama, Mudbound. Tourmaline has co produced two projects with fellow filmmaker and activist Sasha Wortzel. The first was STAR People Are Beautiful, about the work of Sylvia Rivera and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. The second was Happy Birthday, Marsha, about Marsha P Johnson. Happy Birthday, Marsha had all trans roles played by trans actors. Tourmaline's work is featured or archived in several major museums and galleries. In 2017 her work was featured in New Museum's exhibit Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. In 2020 the Museum of Modern Art acquired Tourmaline's 2019 film Salacia, a project about Mary Jones. In 2021 the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired two of Tourmaline's works for display in Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room. Tourmaline is also the sibling of:

Che Gossett

Che Gossett is a nonbinary, trans femme writer and archivist. Gossett specializes in queer/trans studies, aesthetic theory, abolitionist thought and black study. Gossett received a Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies, from Rutgers University, in 2021. They have also received a BA in African American Studies from Morehouse college, a MAT in Social Studios from Brown University, and a MA in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Gossett has held a fellowship at Yale, and currently holds fellowships at Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge. Gossett's writing has been published in a number of anthologies and they have lectured and performed at several museums and galleries of note, including the Museum of Modern Art and A.I.R. Gallery. Gossett is currently working on finishing a political biography of queer Japanese-American AIDS activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya.

I originally intended to do separate profiles for Che Gossett Tourmaline, but could not find sufficient information about Che Gossett, beyond their credentials and current academic activity. That means that this will be the last of these write ups for a bit. I plan on picking it back up in October for the US's LGBT History Month and UK's Black History month. With time to plan ahead and research more I hope to diversify my list geographically and improve formatting. I plan on starting to include cis icons as well, like Rustin Bayard. If you come across this or any other of these posts Ive made this month I would love feedback and suggestions for figures you would like to see covered.

[broadwaydivastournament]

Bernadette and Christine: Hey, Old Friends

Yes, yes, once again, Good Fight costars, but Bernadette and Christine go way, way back to 1982 and a little off-Broadway play called Sally and Marsha, written by Sybille Pearson and directed by Lynne Meadow, who remains Artistic Director at MTC to this day.

Bernadette is Sally (no, not Follies Sally just yet), a 30-year-old waif and New York transplant who is your quintessential all-American housewife. Contrast against Christine as Marsha, the tall erudite wise-cracker, cynical and neurotic. Can we say 'typecast?' (Oh, my god, this is just Summer, 1976 with Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht, except set in New York.)

Anyone else getting a fruity vibe from this? You can't convince me they didn't explore each other's bodies during all those long tension-filled talks...

As you'd expect, Sally and Marsha butt heads over their innumerable differences, but eventually realize they're really not so dissimilar deep down as they discuss sex, marriage, children, and everything but the kitchen sink. (Or maybe that too, I don't know. I wasn't seeing shows in 1982. They're wearing aprons, so...)

Bernadette reportedly joined the production four days before rehearsals began after a frantic and unsuccessful search for a Sally to match Christine's Marsha. Christine had read with dozens of actresses who fit the bill, but no dice until Bernadette signed on, having loved the script. This marked Bernadette's return to the stage after an eight-year absence.

The play received mixed reviews for its writing, but general warmth for its actresses. By this point, Bernadette was a two-time Tony nominee, and Christine still a relative newcomer to the New York stage. Coincidentally, they'd both go on to receive Tony nominations in the same 1984 season, Bernadette for Sunday in the Park (Leading Musical), and Christine for The Real Thing (Featured Play). Bernadette would lose to Chita Rivera for The Rink, while Christine would win her first Tony.

And speaking of Sunday in the Park...

Fresh off the middling success of Sally and Marsha, both actresses would join forces with some composer named Steven Sondheim to do the Playwrights Horizons workshop of Sunday in the Park with George in the summer of 1983. The show did not perform the second act until the last three performances, and the entire show was still largely in development.

It starred, as we know, Bernadette Peters as Dot/Marie, and featured Christine Baranski as Blair Daniels/Clarisse (later named Yvonne). Christine did not transfer with the company to Broadway the following year in 1984, having instead chosen to do Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. Tony Award, so great decision on her part. This was also notably the play where she's Cynthia Nixon's mother, despite not being old enough to do that. Showbusiness, eh?

Oh, and one more thing. Bernadette and Christine were also both Cinderella's Stepmother in separate movie musicals. Bernadette in the 1997 Cinderella with Brandy and Whitney Houston (the superior Cinderella, the only one that matters, the one that made me a lesbian). Christine in the 2014 Into the Woods movie adaptation that we here at BroadwayDivasTournament do not talk about under any circumstances except to say how hot Christine was.

The obvious answer is both, but we here at BroadwayDivasTournament do not allow fence-sitters. Make a choice, dammit. Commit to something.

[meadow-dusk]

©️ Marsha Traeger, 1983

[nerdygaymormon]

I've heard some homophobic people say that now it's popular to support people and our church members are taking the easy way by not calling gay people to repentance. I don't see it that way and wondered what you think when people say that

I wouldn't say it's "popular" or "taking the easy way" for a Mormon to be affirming of queer people and supportive of their full inclusion in the LDS Church.

In 2023, professors still can lose their jobs at the church's BYU schools if they stray too far from the LDS Church's homophobic and transphobic teachings despite what the science and consensus is in their fields. Members who post support on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media can expect pushback from other members.

While our church leaders may have softened their rhetoric and made some changes, such as allowing people to keep their temple recommends even if they support gay marriage, the core beliefs on these topics haven't changed much. So no, I wouldn't say it's "popular" in the LDS Church to stand for full equality and inclusion of LGBTQ+ people.

With that said, certainly it's easier in 2023 than it was in 2013, easier than it was in 2003, easier than it was in 1993, easier than it was in 1983, easier than it was in 1973 for a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be affirming of LGBTQ+ people and to come out of the closet as yourself, at least in the USA.

We can thank queer people like Bayard Rustin, Christine Jorgensen, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Frank Kameny, Harvey Milk, Gilbert Baker, Leonard Matlovich, Steve Endean, RuPaul Charles, Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John, Laverne Cox, Lori Lightfoot and many, many others who were pioneers and moved American society to be more tolerant and accepting of queer people.

And from the LDS Church, a number of individuals have bravely stepped forward and spoken their truth & shared their experience, and that's led to awareness and eventually to increased understanding. People such as R. Joel Dorius, Leonard Matlovich, Paul Mortensen, Stephen Holbrook, Carol Lynn Pearson, D. Michael Quinn, Stuart Matis, Ty Mansfield, Mitch Mayne, Kendall Wilcox, Josh Weed, Dustin Lance Black, Jimmy Hales, Tyler Glenn, Tom Christofferson, Troy Williams, Xian Mackintosh, Laurie Lee Hall, Kris Irvin, Stacey Harkey, David Matheson, Charlie Bird, Matt Easton, Emma Gee, David Archuleta, and many others

[bylertruther]

OCCUPATION: Salesclerk, Melvald’s General Store ABILITIES: Strong intuition, dogged determination, fiercely protective WEAKNESSES: Prone to bouts of high anxiety, no paternal support system, chain-smoker

Even before her youngest son disappears, Joyce Byers gives the impression of a woman barely holding on. Raising two boys as a single parent means that money is tight, and what little she makes working at the general store barely covers the bills. Joyce is messy and scattered, dwarfed in clothes far too ample for her slight frame. There’s a quiver in her voice when she speaks. But Joyce has surprising reserves of courage that carry her through, especially after young Will vanishes. In the face of overwhelming odds, she knows in her core that she’ll be reunited with her boy if only she continues to search for him.

“She’s certainly not perfect in any way,” says Winona Ryder. “I think she carries a lot of guilt around. There’s a lot of people out there struggling, a lot of single parents. She works Christmases. She works Thanksgiving… Her husband left when Will was about five—just took off and never paid any child support.”

When thinking about actors who could embody Joyce, casting director Carmen Cuba immediately suggested Ryder—not only because of her strong connection to films from the era that inspired the series, but also because of her incredible talent. She’s someone who can easily project strength and vulnerability simultaneously.

In shaping Joyce, Ryder looked to real life and to cinema history, putting together “a little collage of inspirations” that included Marsha Mason’s work in 1983’s Max Dugan Returns and the 1977 film Audrey Rose. She also drew from Ellen Burstyn’s Oscar-winning performance in the 1974 release Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. She was looking to portray “the sort of real desperation to just put food on the table and to just get by.”

(From Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down.)

[bolshefem]

Hey there, you mentioned in a comment section somewhere you had sources on socialisation for young children? Would you be able to link me? Interesting stuff! Thank you!

here you go! :) fantastic amount of research on this, I'm sure I'm missing a lot, but here are some really good studies!!! I think knowledge of sociological research and analysis of its concepts is actually really important for radical feminists and understanding systems of gender domination, I hope people who see this at least read the first one ! <3

[hooked-on-elvis]

I love how our beloved Carolyn Jones ("King Creole", 1958) is also a horror queen. Morticia Addams ♥

Carolyn Jones as Ronnie on "King Creole" (1958) x Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams on "The Addams Family" TV show (1964—1966). A truly gifted actress. Her feature and energy is completely different in each character.

In 1958 Jones was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "The Bachelor Party" (1957), unfortunately she didn't won this time, but only a year after ✨ she won a Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year, ✨ sharing the honors with actresses Sandra Dee and Diane Varsi. Carolyn won this award as recognition for her role in the drama film "Marjorie Morningstar", in which she played the character Marsha Zelenko. The same year ✨she also won a Laurel Awards✨ for the same role. In 1963 she was nominated again for a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star-Female for portraying quadruplets — one the murder victim and the others suspects — in the Burke's Law episode "Who Killed Sweet Betsy?" In 1964, Jones donned a long coal-black wig to play the splendorous, glamorous, fabulous yet ghoulish Morticia Addams in the television series "The Addams Family", a role which brought her a Golden Globe Award nomination and success as a comedian.✨

Fun fact: Carolyn inherited a chair from Morticia Addams. Here it is the actual picture where Carolyn appears as her famous Queen of Darkness character and the desk in Carolyn's bedroom, with the same chair in her home. About that, Carolyn said "The chair was a gift from 'Morticia' to me — love that girl!" — Excerpt from the book 'In Morticia's Shadow: The Life & Career of Carolyn Jones' by Peter Pylant (2012).

About other projects Jones was in the following years, she guest-starred on the 1960s TV series Batman, playing Marsha, the Queen of Diamonds, and in 1976 appeared as the title character's mother, Hippolyta, in the Wonder Woman TV series. But that's not even close to everything this woman did in her carreer. Carolyn Jones had a long successful and meaningful career, starting from 1952 until 1982.

Sadly, Carolyn was diagnoses with colon cancer in 1982 and died in 1983 at only 53 years old.

Rest in piece, dear Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983). Never forgotten. ♥

Photo of Carolyn Jones from an appearance on the television program Star Stage.

The Addams Family | 1.01 - "The Addams Family Goes to School"

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.21

Beer Birthdays

Thomas Greenall (1733)

Jacob Birk (1835)

John Gillooly (1965)

Matt Kirkegaard

Five Favorite Birthdays

Gustav Holst; English composer (1874)

Chuck Jones; animator (1912)

Stephen King; writer (1947)

Bill Murray; comedian, actor (1950)

H.G. Wells; English writer (1866)

Famous Birthdays

Frédéric Beigbeder; French author (1965)

Jerry Bruckheimer; film producer (1945)

Anne Burrell; chef (1969)

Kevin Buzzard; British mathematician (1968)

Maurizio Cattelan; Italian sculptor (1960)

Ethan Coen; film director (1957)

Leonard Cohen; rock singer (1934)

Dave Coulier; actor, comedian (1959)

Don Felder; musician and songwriter (1947)

Fannie Flagg; actor, writer (1944)

Liam Gallagher; English rock singer (1972)

Henry Gibson; comedian (1935)

Donald Glaser; physicist (1926)

Maggie Grace; actress (1983)

Dave Gregory; English guitarist, keyboardist (1952)

Larry Hagman; actor (1931)

Chico Hamilton; jazz drummer, bandleader (1921)

Hans Hartung; German-French painter (19904)

Faith Hill; country singer (1967)

Rupert Hine; English musician, songwriter (1947)

Cheryl Hines; actor (1965)

Francis Hopkinson; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1737)

Louis Jolliet; Canadian explorer (1645)

Ricki Lake; actress (1968)

Angus Macfadyen; Scottish actor (1963)

Rob Morrow; actor (1962)

Marsha Norman; playwright and author (1947)

Ahna O'Reilly; actress (1984)

Suman Pokhrel; Nepali poet, lyricist and playwright (1967)

Billy Porter; actor and singer (1969)

Alfonso Ribeiro; actor (1971)

György Sándor; Hungarian pianist and composer (1912)

Allison Scagliotti; actress & musician (1990)

Christian Serratos; actress (1990)

Henry L. Stimson; colonel, lawyer & politician (1867)

Lindsey Stirling; violinist and composer (1986)

Ward Swingle; singer, choir leader (1927)

Serena Scott Thomas; English actress (1961)

Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor; English rock drummer (1954)

Nancy Travis; actor (1961)

Preston Tucker; automobile designer (1903)

Emma Watkins; Australian singer & actress (1989)

Luke Wilson; actor (1971)

[littlequeenies]

1983 Theatre program for the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

This play was represented from 25th November 1982 to 5th October 1983 at the Cottesloe Theatre, then at The Lyttelton Theatre, then toured in Bath Theatre Royal, Cardiff New Theatre, Glasgow Theatre Royal and returned to The Lyttelton Theatre.

Marsha Hunt plays the role of Hippolyta.

From e-bay.

[thebobby1432world]

Nancy Cartwright Wiki, Biography, Age, Height, Weight, Family, Net Worth

Nancy Cartwright Wiki: Nancy Cartwright is a talented American actress, comedian, singer, and voiceover artist widely known for her iconic portrayal of Bart Simpson's voice on the animated TV series "The Simpsons." She was born on October 25, 1957, and as of 2023, she is 65 years old. Nancy Cartwright Wiki Cartwright's impressive net worth is estimated to be around $80 million. She has achieved significant recognition for her work in the entertainment industry, including her performances in the epic horror film "Twilight Zone" (1993) as Ethel and in the drama comedy film "Heaven Help Us" (1985) as Girl at Dance.

Nancy Cartwright Wiki, Biography

Nancy Cartwright Wiki

Nancy Cartwright has earned numerous awards for her voiceover performances, including an Annie Award for Best Voiceovers in the Field of Animation and a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Voiceover Performance category. She is highly respected in the industry for her versatility and dedication to her craft. WikiInformationFull NameNancy CartwrightNet Worth$80 MillionDate of Birth25 October 1957Age65 Years OldBirth PlaceDayton, Ohio, United States, AmericaLive InLos Angeles, California, United StatesProfessionActress, Comedian, Singer, and Voice-Over ArtistDebutTV Series: Skokie (1981) Video Games: The Simpsons Arcade Game (1991) Film: Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) Music Video: Do the Bartman (1990)Years Active1980 – PresentFamous RoleBart Simpson in Animation Film The Simpsons Wrestling (2001)NationalityAmericanReligionScientologyEthnicityEnglish, German, Irish, and White American DescentHometownDayton, OhioZodiac SignScorpioSchool/High SchoolFairmont West High School, VirginiaCollege/UniversityUniversity of California, Los AngelesEducation QualifiesGraduateFather NameFrank CartwrightMother NameMiriam CartwrightBrother NameFrank Cartwright Jr. Steve CartwrightSister NameCathy Cartwright Marsha Cartwright Mary Beth Cartwright Cartwright was born in Dayton, Ohio, and spent her childhood in Kettering, Ohio. She comes from a well-settled family in the United States of America. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where she continues to pursue her passion for acting and voiceover work. Cartwright holds American nationality and is known to follow the Roman Catholic religion. She has also affiliated herself with Scientology over the years. Read the full article

[deathridersofficial]

Neil Turbin & Bulldozer Bob in 1983 Old Bridge New Jersey Jonny Marsha & Zazula Megaforce Records Courtesy Jim Chimiente Old Bridge Militia Foundation #neilturbin #themetalvoice #bulldozerbob #joechimiente #oldbridgemilitiafoundation #jonzazula #marshazazula #megaforcerecords #rockandrollheaven #metalhalloffame @deathriders @themetalvoice @megaforcerecords @metalhalloffameofficial (at Old Bridge, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co6RIBgLvQs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[carmenvicinanza]

Kathy Bates

https://www.unadonnalgiorno.it/kathy-bates/

Kathy Bates è una poliedrica attrice e regista statunitense dalle straordinarie doti recitative. Ha fatto la storia del cinema con indimenticabili interpretazioni di donne spesso forti e padrone del proprio destino.

Ha saputo conquistare Hollywood col suo straordinario talento e il coraggio di andare avanti, nonostante le porte sbattute in faccia perché il suo fisico non rientrava negli standard cinematografici.

Ha dato vita a personaggi memorabili, diventando una delle star protagoniste degli anni ’90.

È diventata celebre nel ruolo della psicopatica Annie Wilkes in Misery non deve morire, che le ha fatto vincere l’Oscar alla miglior attrice e il Golden Globe. Per questa interpretazione, l’American Film Institute l’ha inserita al 17º posto nella classifica dei 50 migliori cattivi del cinema statunitense.

Ha ricevuto altre tre candidature agli Oscar come miglior attrice non protagonista, ha vinto tre Emmy Awards, l’Obie Award e numerose nomination per tutti i maggiori premi internazionali per il suo lavoro nel cinema, televisione e teatro.

Nata col nome di Kathleen Doyle Bates, il 28 giugno 1948 a Memphis, in una famiglia della middle class, ha origini inglesi, scozzesi, irlandesi e tedesche.

Dopo essersi laureata in teatro alla Southern Methodist School nel 1969, si è trasferita a New York per provare a lavorare a Broadway mentre svolgeva diversi lavori per mantenersi.

Nel 1971 ha esordito nella commedia Taking Off, il primo film americano del regista ceco Milos Forman. A metà degli anni ’70 è stata diretta da Robert Altman nella piece Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, insieme a Cher e Karen Black. Nel 1978 è stata nel cast di Vigilato speciale con Dustin Hoffman.

Nel 1983 ha ricevuto un Tony Award per un ruolo in Night, Mother di Marsha Norman, l’opera teatrale è rimasta in scena per oltre un anno.

Negli anni Ottanta ha fatto parte del cast nell’adattamento cinematografico di Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean e recitato in altri ruoli in piccoli film indipendenti e in produzioni televisive.

Il successo internazionale è arrivato grazie alla sua interpretazione nel thriller Misery non deve morire, del 1990, tratto dall’omonimo romanzo di Stephen King.

Dopo il grande successo del film sono arrivati importanti ruoli come quelli in Pomodori verdi fritti alla fermata del treno, L’ultima Eclissi e I colori della vittoria.

Dalla fine degli anni Novanta è passata anche dietro la macchina da presa e diretto episodi televisivi di celebri serial come NYPD, Oz e Six Feet Under, di cui ha interpretato anche diversi episodi.

Nel settembre 2016 le è stata dedicata una stella sulla Hollywood Walk of Fame.

La sua filmografia completa conta oltre 70 pellicole.

Nonostante abbia lottato contro insicurezza, depressione e autolesionismo in gioventù e, più avanti negli anni, contro due tumori, resta una donna molto determinata, in continua evoluzione e ricerca, che custodisce gelosamente la sua vita privata.

[keemeekaal]

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