Piper Laurie

Infobox actor
name = Laurie Piper


imagesize = 180px
caption = Laurie at the 1990 Annual Emmy Awards
birthname = Rosetta Jacobs
birthdate = birth date and age|1932|1|22
birthplace = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
spouse = Joe Morgenstern 1962-1981
goldenglobeawards = Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie
1990 "Twin Peaks"
emmyawards = Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie
1987 "Promise"

Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932) is an American actress of stage and screen noted for her role in the television series "Twin Peaks".

Biography

Early life

Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan to Jewish parents, Charlotte Sadie Alperin and Alfred Jacobs, a furniture dealer. [cite web | title=Piper Laurie Biography | url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/91/Piper-Laurie.html | work=filmreference | date=2008 | accessdate=2008-09-01] [cite news | author=Richard G. Hubler | title=Article From Colliers Magazine | url=http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Land/5828/article17.html | work=Colliers | date=20 June 1953 | accessdate=2008-09-26] She moved to Los Angeles when she was young. She signed a contract with Universal Studios when she was 17, co-starring with Ronald Reagan (whom she dated a couple of times before his marriage to Nancy Davis) in "Louisa". She married Joseph Morgenstern (a journalist, critic, and writer) in 1962. They had one child Anne Grace and were divorced in 1981.

Career

Dissatisfied with the work she was being offered in Hollywood, Laurie went to New York City in 1955 to work on the live television programs of the 1950s. She starred in such productions as "Twelfth Night" and "Days of Wine and Roses". In 1961 she returned to Hollywood to star opposite Paul Newman in "The Hustler", for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sarah Packard, the crippled love interest for Newman's "Fast Eddie" Felson.

In 1965, she starred in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" opposite Maureen Stapleton, Pat Hingle and George Grizzard. She wouldn't star in another Broadway production for 37 years, when she appeared in Lincoln Center's acclaimed revival of Paul Osborn's "Morning's at Seven" with Julie Hagerty, Buck Henry, Frances Sternhagen and Estelle Parsons.

In the 1960s, once again disenchanted with the work available, Laurie returned to semi-retirement to raise a family. She appeared in the Australian film "Tim" (1979) opposite a very young Mel Gibson (in which she can be credited in doing the first sex scene on screen in which Gibson appeared). But perhaps her most famous role in her later career was in Brian De Palma's "Carrie", as the title character's fanatically religious mother Margaret White, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She first turned down the role because she didn't know how to play it, but later realized that it was a dark comedy; she ruined several shots because she couldn't stop laughing. Twenty years later, she reunited with co-star Sissy Spacek when they played sisters in a screen adaptation of Truman Capote's "The Grass Harp".

She received another Academy Award Supporting Actress nomination, in 1987, for "Children of a Lesser God", in which she played Marlee Matlin's mother. Laurie also starred as the devious Catherine Martell in David Lynch's television series "Twin Peaks". Following the character's supposed death in a mill fire at the end of the first season, the actress (under heavy makeup) returned as "Fumio Yamaguchi," playing the mysterious Mr. Tojamura, who would eventually be revealed to be Catherine Martell in disguise. She also appeared in 1991's "Other People's Money" with Gregory Peck and in horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film "Trauma", along with the director's daughter Asia Argento.

Laurie played George Clooney's character's mother on "ER". In 1998, she starred in the sci-fi thriller "The Faculty". Laurie then made a series of guest appearances on television shows including "Matlock", "Frasier", "State of Grace", "Will & Grace", and "". She returned to the big screen for independent films such as "Eulogy" and "The Dead Girl".

Awards

Laurie won an Emmy Award, for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special", for her role in the 1986 TV movie "Promise" opposite James Garner and James Woods. In addition, she received several Emmy nominations, including one for playing Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels, in "The Bunker", opposite Anthony Hopkins as Hitler, for her role in the miniseries "The Thorn Birds", and two for her work in "Twin Peaks".

Filmography

* "The Milkman" (1950)
* "Francis Goes to the Races" (1951)
* "The Prince Who Was a Thief" (1951)
* "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" (1952)
* "The Golden Blade" (1953)
* "The Mississippi Gambler" (1953)
* "Until They Sail" (1957)
* "The Hustler" (1961)
* "Carrie" (1976)
* "Ruby" (1977)
* "Tim" (1979)
* "The Thorn Birds" (1983)
* "Return to Oz" (1985)
* "The Twilight Zone" (1985)
* "Children of a Lesser God" (1986)
* "Appointment with Death" (1988)
* "Dream a Little Dream" (1989)
* "Twin Peaks" (1990)
* "Other People's Money (1991)
* "Storyville" (1992)
* "" (1992) — her scenes were deleted from the final cut
* "Wrestling Ernest Hemingway" (1993)
* "Trauma" (1993)
* "The Grass Harp" (1995)
* "Fighting For My Daughter" (1995)
* "The Faculty" (1998)
* "Eulogy" (2004)
* "The Dead Girl" (2006)
* "Hounddog" (2007)
* "Saving Grace" (2008)

References

External links

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ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Jacobs, Rosetta
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DATE OF BIRTH= January 22, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH= Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
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