Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher.The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was adapted from the book Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Rolling Stone writer and activist Howard Kohn, which detailed the life of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear whistle-blower and a labor union activist who investigated alleged ...
Karen Gay Silkwood was born in 1946 in Longview, Texas, and raised in Nederland, Texas.She lived with her mother Merle, father Bill, and sisters Rose Mary and Linda. [1] In high school, Karen was a straight 'A' student and a member of the National Honor Society.
Streep portrayed the real-life character of Karen Silkwood in Mike Nichols' drama Silkwood (1983), [12] before starring in her most financially successful release of the decade, the romantic drama Out of Africa (1985), in which she played the Danish writer Karen Blixen.
In 1983, Walsh appeared in Mike Nichols' biographical film Silkwood. In 1984, he was cast as a crooked Texas private eye in the film noir Blood Simple, which was the Coen brothers' first film [1] and resulted in Walsh winning the first Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. [16]
In 1988, she won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her work on “Moonstruck.” She also was honored with a Golden Globe for “Silkwood” in 1984 and for “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour” in 1974.
Returning to Hollywood, Nichols's career rebounded in 1983 with the film Silkwood, starring Meryl Streep, Cher and Kurt Russell, based on the life of whistleblower Karen Silkwood. The film was a financial and critical success, with film critic Vincent Canby calling it "the most serious work Mike Nichols has yet done."
The film was a modest success drawing only $35 million in tickets in the U.S. Cher made cameo appearances in the Robert Altman films The Player (1992) and Prêt-à-Porter (1994). She starred in the poorly received film Faithful (1996) with Ryan O'Neal and Chazz Palminteri, in the role of the betrayed wife.
Director Mike Nichols began filming for Silkwood in 1982, with a script written by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen. Cher was cast to portray Ellis in the film. The producers of the film paid Ellis $67,500 for her likeness, even though they changed her name in the film from Dusty Ellis to Dolly Pelliker.