Karen Black

A native of suburban Chicago, Black studied theater at Northwestern University before dropping out and relocating to New York City. She performed on Broadway in 1965 before making her major film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's ''You're a Big Boy Now'' (1966). Black relocated to California and was cast as an LSD-tripping prostitute in Dennis Hopper's road film ''Easy Rider'' (1969). That led to a co-starring role in the drama ''Five Easy Pieces'' (1970), in which she played a hopeless waitress, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Black made her first major commercial picture with the disaster film ''Airport 1975'' (1974), and her subsequent appearance as Myrtle Wilson in ''The Great Gatsby'' (1974) won her a second Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
Black played a glamorous country singer in Robert Altman's ensemble musical drama ''Nashville'' (1975), also writing and performing two songs for the soundtrack, for which she received a nomination for a Grammy Award. Her portrayal of an aspiring actress in John Schlesinger's drama ''The Day of the Locust'' (also 1975) earned her a third Golden Globe nomination, this time for Best Actress. Black subsequently took on four roles in Dan Curtis' anthology horror film ''Trilogy of Terror'' (1975), followed by Curtis' supernatural horror feature, ''Burnt Offerings'' (1976). The same year, she played a kidnapping accomplice in Alfred Hitchcock's final film, ''Family Plot''.
In 1982, Black played a transsexual in the Robert Altman-directed Broadway debut of ''Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean'', a role she also reprised in Altman's subsequent film adaptation. She next starred in the comedy ''Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?'' (1983), followed by Tobe Hooper's remake of ''Invaders from Mars'' (1986). For much of the 1990s and 2000s, Black starred in a variety of arthouse, independent, and horror films, as well as writing her own screenplays. She had a leading role as a villainous mother in Rob Zombie's ''House of 1000 Corpses'' (2003), which cemented her status as a cult horror icon. Black continued to star in low-profile films throughout the early 2010s, as well as working as a playwright before her death from ampullary cancer in 2013. Provided by Wikipedia
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