The star of dozens of highly successful films and TV series, Sally Kellerman also received an Academy Award nomination in 1970
The world of American television and cinema, on Friday 24 February last, learned with great sadness the news of the death of a great actress. Sally Kellermanfamous for dozens of roles in hit TV series and movies, passed away forever at the age of 84.
To confirm the death of the interpreter, he thought about it, through a note, his own Press office. The aforementioned note also explains what the causes of death were. It seems that the actress has been suffering for some time from senile dementiawhich with the aggravation led to her death.
Born in 1937 in Long Beach, in California, Kellerman studied at Los Angeles City College. Later she enrolled in the Actor’s Studio with Jeff Corey and Lee Strasberg and she made her film debut in 1957, in the youth film “Reform School Girl”, a film never released in Italy.
In the 1960s he worked mainly in television, starring in several very successful TV series, such as “Hitchcock Hour”, “Cheyenne” and “Star Trek”. In the latter she took on the role of a psychiatrist Elizabeth Dehnera victim of a radiation storm in which he had acquired exceptional mental powers.
Before the end of the decade, in 1968, he returned to work in cinema in the movie “The Boston Strangler,” in which he played the role of Dianne Cluny. The following year she got a minor part in the comedy “I feel something is happening to me”.
Sally Kellerman and the Oscar nomination
Among the many roles that made Sally Kellerman famous, there is one that made her truly immortal. In 1970, under the direction of the director Robert Altmanhe stared in the film MASH. On that occasion she took on the role of the nurse Margaret “Bollore” O’Houlihana repressed but still desirable character.
The film received dozens of awards and accolades in various world film festivals, such as the Golden Palm in Cannes. She, for the great interpretation of her, came Oscar nominated in the category of Best Supporting Actress.
In addition to her acting career, Kellerman also tried her singerin 1972, when he released an album called “Roll with the Feelin ‘”.
In 2014, shortly before he fell ill, he published his autobiographyentitled “Read My Lips: Stories of a Hollywood Life”.
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