She has also appeared in numerous acclaimed television and stage roles, including David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks.”
Piper Laurie, the strong-willed Oscar-nominated actress who played acclaimed roles despite at one point abandoning acting altogether in search of a “more meaningful” life, died Saturday morning at her home in Los Angeles. She was 91 years old.
Laurie died of old age, her manager, Marion Rosenberg, told The Associated Press in an email, adding that she was “an exceptional talent and a wonderful human being.”
Laurie arrived in Hollywood in 1949 as Rosetta Jacobs and quickly landed a contract with Universal-International, a new name she hated, and a string of leading roles with Ronald Reagan, Rock Hudson, and Tony Curtis, among others. She received Oscar nominations for three separate films: the 1961 billiards drama, Challenge to corruption; the film version of Stephen King’s horror classic, Carrie, in 1976; and romantic drama Children of a lesser Godin 1986. She has also appeared in several acclaimed television and stage roles, including Twin peaksby David Lynch, in the 90s, in the role of the villain Catherine Martell.
Laurie made her debut at the age of 17 He knowsas Reagan’s daughter, she later appeared alongside Francis, the talking mule, in Francesco at the races. She has made several films with Curtis, who she has dated, including The prince who was a thief, There is no room for the groom, Son of Ali Baba AND Johnny Dark. Fed up, she broke her $2,000-a-week contract in 1955, vowing that she would never work again unless she was offered a decent role. She moved to New York, where she found the roles she was looking for in theater and live television dramas. Shows a Damn addiction, The deaf heart AND The road that led next earned her Emmy nominations and paved the way for a return to film, including an acclaimed role as Paul Newman’s troubled girlfriend in The trafficker.
For many years Laurie turned her back on acting. She married film critic Joseph Morgenstern, had a daughter, Ann Grace, and moved to a farm in Woodstock, New York. She later said that the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War influenced her decision to make the change. “I became disenchanted and sought a more meaningful existence for myself,” she recalled, adding that she has never regretted the move. “My life was full,” she said in 1990. “I always liked to use my hands and I always painted.”
Laurie also became known as a baker, and her recipes appeared in The New York Times. His only performance during that period came when he joined a dozen musicians and actors on a tour of college campuses to support Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential bid.
Laurie was finally ready to return to acting when director Brian De Palma called asking her to play Sissy Spacek’s distraught mother in Carrie. At first she thought the script was rubbish, but then she decided that she should play the role for laughs. Only when De Palma scolded her for giving a comedic touch to a scene did she realize that he intended the film to be a thriller. Carrie it became a box office success, launching a craze for movies about teens in peril, and Spacek and Laurie were nominated for Oscars. With her desire to act rekindled, Laurie resumed an intense career that spanned decades.
On television, she has appeared in series such as Matlock, Murder, he wrote AND Frasier and played George Clooney’s mother ER.
___ Bob Thomas, a now deceased former Associated Press employee, was the primary writer of this obituary. Associated Press writer Hannah Fingerhut contributed from Des Moines, Iowa.
Source: Terra
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