Jill Clayburgh, an elegant actress who jumped from Broadway in the 1960s to movie stardom in the 1970s, then returned to the stage after her children (with playwright husband David Rabe) were grown, died on November 5 of chronic leukemia. She was 66. News of her illness spread after her actress daughter, Lily Rabe, missed performances of the current Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice, in which she co-stars with Al Pacino as Portia.
Born in Manhattan on April 30, 1944, Clayburgh graduated from the elite all-girls’ Brearley School and Sarah Lawrence College before launching her acting career at the Charles Street Repertory Theater in Boston. She co-starred with Pacino in the 1968 off-Broadway production of The Indian Wants the Bronx made her Broadway debut the same year in The Sudden and Accidental Death of Horse Johnson, a play that lasted only five performances. Clayburgh had better luck in her next two Broadway outings, the musicals The Rothschilds (1970) and Pippin (1972). Tom Stoppard’s 1974 comedy Jumpers became her last Broadway outing for 11 years as her star rose in Hollywood.
After receiving a 1975 Emmy nomination for the TV movie Hustling, Clayburgh became one of the biggest ...
Source: http://www.broadway.com/buzz/154200/stage-and-screen-star-jill-clayburgh-dies-at-age-66/
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