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| Birth Name(s) : Lee Ann Remick |
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Bill Colleran (1957-1968) |
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Full Lee Remick Biography
Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-nominated American film and television actress. Among her best-known films are Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), and The Omen, as Katherine Thorn (1976).
Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts to Francis Edwin Remick, who owned a department store, and Margaret Patricia Waldo. She attended the Swaboda School of Dance and studied acting at Barnard College and the Actors' Studio, making her Broadway theatre debut in 1953 with "Be Your Age".
Remick made her film debut in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957). When they filmed the movie in Arkansas, Remick lived with a local family and practiced baton twirling so that she would be believable as the teenager who wins the heart of "Lonesome Rhodes" (played by Andy Griffith). In 1962 she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress for her performance as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses.
Remick appeared in the 1964 musical Anyone Can Whistle, written by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents; the highly unconventional show ran for only a week, although Remick's performance is captured on the popular original cast recording. This began a lifelong friendship between Remick and Sondheim, and she later appeared in the landmark 1985 concert version of his musical Follies. Remick received a Tony Award nomination in 1966 for her role as a blind woman terrorized by drug smugglers in the hit play Wait Until Dark (the character was played by Audrey Hepburn in the film version).
Remick also starred in several made-for-TV movies or miniseries (for which she earned seven Emmy nominations), mostly of a historical nature, including two noted miniseries were she portrayed Kay Summersby and Robert Duvall played General Eisenhower:
- QB VII - (1974; Lady Margaret Alexander Weidman)
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill - (1974; Jennie Jerome)
- Ike: The War Years - (1978; Kay Summersby)
- Wheels - (1978; Erica Trenton)
- Ike - (1979; Kay Summersby, Eisenhower's driver & aide)
- Mistral's Daughter - (1984)
Remick's first husband was Bill Colleran, an American television producer, with whom she had a son and daughter. Her second husband was British film producer Kip Gowans. |
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