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Melinda Ruth Dillon (October 13, 1939 – January 9, 2023) was an American actress. She received a 1963 Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in the original production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Absence of Malice (1981).
Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, ... Melinda Dillon as Suzanne Hanrahan; ... Slap Shot at IMDb;
The "A Christmas Story" cast — including Scott Schwartz, Melinda Dillon, Mary E. McLeod, Peter Billingsley and Reuben Freed — attend a screening of "A Christmas Story" on the film's 35th ...
Michael Ontkean (born January 24, 1946) [1] is a Canadian actor, long-based in the United States, now retired. [2]Ontkean relocated to the United States to attend the University of New Hampshire on a hockey scholarship before pursuing a career in acting in the early 1970s.
Melinda Dillon, the actor best known for roles in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and A Christmas Story, has died at the age of 83. The news was announced by her family, with no cause of death ...
Melinda Dillion, the two-time-Oscar nominee, played Ralphie’s mom in “A Christmas Story” and earned a Tony nomination. ‘A Christmas Story’ star Melinda Dillon and two-time Oscar nominee dies
In 1977, she appeared as Lily Braden, the discontented wife of hockey player Ned Braden in Slap Shot. In 1982 she appeared as the decisive witness in The Verdict. Crouse was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1984 movie Places in the Heart.
Oscar and Tony-nominated actor Melinda Dillon, who played Mother Parker in “A Christmas Story,” and appeared in “Magnolia” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” died Jan. 9.