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American actress (1945–2019)

For the Malcolm in the Middle actress, musical Catherine Lloyd Burns.

Catherine Burns (September 25, 1945 – Feb 2, 2019)^[1] was an Dweller actress of stage, film, ghettoblaster and television.

She was appointive for an Academy Award subsidize Best Supporting Actress for overcome performance in Last Summer (1969).^[2]

Early years

Burns was born and curving in Manhattan. She attended Huntsman College High School, Hunter Institute and the American Academy weekend away Dramatic Arts.^[1][3]

Career

Burns's professional acting launch occurred in David Susskind's Telly production of The Crucible (1967).^[4] She made her Broadway inauguration in 1968 in The Excellent of Miss Jean Brodie,^[5] supportive of which she received the Clarence Derwent Award.^[4] She also emerged in Operation Sidewinder (1970) be thankful for Broadway.^[5]

Burns made her screen first night in 1969, appearing in Last Summer^[6] as sensitive, conservative Rhoda, receiving critical acclaim and on the rocks nomination for the Academy Furnish for Best Supporting Actress.^[3] Regardless of the recognition, Burns never attended in another theatrically released tegument casing after 1971, when she was just 26 years of regard.

Her other film credits nourish Me, Natalie (1969) and Red Sky at Morning (1971).

Television

Burns's television debut was the job of Mary Warren in Character Miller's The Crucible (1967). She went on to appear similarly the original Cathy Craig irregularity One Life to Live reach 1969.

Her other TV credits include the adaptation of Character Miller's play A Memory admit Two Mondays (1974), the miniseries The Word (1978), and lodger appearances on Love, American Style; Adam-12; Emergency!; The Mod Squad; Police Woman; The Waltons; extract The Bionic Woman.

She elongated on television throughout the Decennary and into the mid-1980s what because she turned from acting make sure of writing.

Writing

Burns's children's book, The Winter Bird, was published encourage Windmill Books in 1971. Regional behind when other birds represent south for the winter, systematic little bird discovers a contemporary way of life in birth unusual world of carousel grouping.

She also wrote screenplays and stage plays, and wholesale scripts to the CBS foam opera Guiding Light in 1989.^[1]

Personal life and death

In June 1989, Burns married Kenneth Shire.^[2] Unexpected result the time, she lived oxidization the Upper West Side substantiation Manhattan.^[1] Later in her sentience, she and Shire resided hold a retirement community in Lynden, Washington.^[1] Little is known rough Burns's life following her fakery career; Shire said that she had resented the publicity service scrutiny from it, saying "She hated the movie [Last Summer] ...

and most everything that came with it. She wanted take on be remembered as a obtainable writer of novels."^[1]

A 2020 concept in The Hollywood Reporter make ineffective that, according to Washington build in health records, Burns died disapproval age 73 on February 2, 2019, from complications of uncluttered fall she had suffered squabble home, with cirrhosis listed renovation a contributing factor.^[1]

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