Jill Clayburgh (April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010) was an American actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles in An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over.

Clayburgh was born in New York City, the daughter of Julia Louise (née Dorr), a theatrical production secretary for David Merrick, and Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh, a manufacturing executive. Her paternal grandmother was concert and opera singer Alma Lachenbruch Clayburgh.

Clayburgh's father's family was Jewish and wealthy. She was raised in a "fashionable" neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where she attended the prestigious Brearley School. She then attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she decided that she wanted to be an actress.

Clayburgh married screenwriter and playwright David Rabe in 1979 . They had one son, Michael Rabe and one daughter, actress Lily Rabe. She dated Al Pacino for five years (and briefly appeared with him in a November 1968 N.Y.P.D. episode, "Deadly Circle Of Violence").

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for 1978's An Unmarried Woman, for which she won the "Best Actress Award" at the Cannes Film Festival, and for 1979's Starting Over, a comedy with Burt Reynolds. She also received strong notices for a dramatic performance in I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can.

Why is Jill Clayburgh famous?

Jill Clayburgh is a well known actress that got nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for 1978's An Unmarried Woman.

Why do we like Jill Clayburgh?

Jill Clayburgh is an actress that gives it all on stage.
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Jill Clayburgh has died at 66 years old (December 08, 2010)

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	1944 births
	Alumnae of women's universities and colleges
	American film actors
	American Jewish people
	American musical theatre actors
	American stage actors
	American television actors
	Jewish actors
	Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute alumni
	Living people
	People from New York City
	Sarah Lawrence College alumni

 

Jill Clayburgh Movies
The Wedding Party The Telephone Book The Thief Who Came to Dinner The Terminal Man Gable and Lombard Semi-Tough An Unmarried Woman La luna Starting Over First Monday in October In Our Hands Where Are the Children? Shy People Whispers in the Dark Naked in New York
Jill Clayburgh Filmography

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Category: Actresses  - ( Actresses Archive)

Date Added: 13 December '10

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