The Wedding Party was filmed in 1963 (during which Clayburgh was at Sarah Lawrence) but not released until six years later. In 1969, Clayburgh made her screen debut in The Wedding Party, written and directed by Brian De Palma.
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She was in a TV pilot that did not sell, The Choice (1969) and appeared off Broadway in The Nest (1970). In 1969, she starred in an off-Broadway production of the Henry Bloomstein play Calling in Crazy, at the Andy Warhol-owned Fortune theatre. She eventually made her Broadway debut in 1968 in The Sudden and Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson, co-starring Jack Klugman, which ran for 5 performances. Her father would send the couple money each month to help with finances. Clayburgh at the time was also appearing on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, playing the role of Grace Bolton.
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Clayburgh and Pacino were cast in "Deadly Circle of Violence", an episode of the ABC television series NYPD, premiering November 12, 1968. In 1968, Clayburgh debuted off-Broadway in the double bill of Israel Horovitz's The Indian Wants the Bronx and It's Called the Sugar Plum, also starring Pacino.
They had a five-year romance and moved back together to New York City. They met after starring in Jean-Claude Van Itallie's play America, Hurrah. Career Early career Ĭlayburgh began acting as a student in summer stock and, after graduating, joined the Charles Street Repertory Theater in Boston, where she met another up-and-coming actor and future Academy Award-winning star, Al Pacino, in 1967.
She received her acting training at HB Studio. She then attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied religion, philosophy and literature, but ultimately decided to be an actress. She was raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where she attended the all-girls Brearley School. Therapy has helped me a lot in my life." Īs a child, Clayburgh was inspired to become an actor when she saw Jean Arthur as Peter Pan on Broadway in 1950. I got myself in terrible, very personal trouble.
I think I had a lot of energy and undirected need so I just kind of rebelled in a general fashion. Clayburgh never got along with her parents and began therapy at an early age: "I was very rebellious as a teenager, aside from having an unhappy, neurotic childhood. Ĭlayburgh reportedly never talked about her religious background and was not raised in the faith of either of her parents. Her brother, Jim Clayburgh, is a scenic designer. Her paternal grandmother was concert and opera singer Alma Lachenbruch Clayburgh. Her father was Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh, a manufacturing executive. Her mother, Julia Louise ( née Dorr), was an actress and theatrical production secretary for producer David Merrick. She also received a second consecutive Academy Award nomination for Starting Over (1979) as well as four Golden Globe nominations for her film performances.Ĭlayburgh was born in New York City, the daughter of a Protestant mother and a Jewish father. She received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her breakthrough role in Paul Mazursky's comedy drama An Unmarried Woman (1978). Jill Clayburgh (Ap– November 5, 2010) was an American actress known for her work in theater, television, and cinema.
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