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Two time Oscar nominee Melinda Dillon, who is best known for her roles in ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ (1977), and ‘A Christmas Story,’ (1983) has passed away at 83.
The two-time Oscar nominee’s family confirmed in an obituary that she died on January 9, 2023. Along with Oscar nominations, Melinda Dillon earned a Tony award and Theatre World award in 1963 for her Broadway debut in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’
Born on October 13, 1939, in Hope, Arkansas, Dillon spent her childhood in Alabama, Germany. She began her career as a comedian and actress and got her first break in 1959 when she got the chance to star in the movie ‘The Cry of Jazz’.
Her filmography includes portraying a single mother, whose three-year-old son is abducted by aliens through her kitchen’s doggy door in Steven Speilberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Sylvester Stallone’s wife in Norman Jewison’s F.I.S.T. (1978), and a suicidal woman in 1991’s The Prince of Tides.
Melinda was married to late actor Richard Libertini from 1963 until their 1978 divorce, and they had a son.
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