Lorraine Gary
| Lorraine Gary | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Lorraine Gottfried August 16, 1937 Forest Hills, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1967–1987 |
| Spouse(s) | Sid Sheinberg (m. 1956) |
Lorraine Gary (born August 16, 1937) is a retired American actress, best known for her role as "Ellen Brody" in Jaws, Jaws 2, and Jaws: The Revenge. She also appeared in 1941 and Car Wash.
Early life
Gary was born as Lorraine Gottfried in Forest Hills, Queens, New York on August 16, 1937, to Betty and George Gottfried, an entertainment business manager.[1]
At an early age, she moved with her family to Los Angeles, California, where she was raised. At age 16, she won a best actress award in a competition at the prestigious Pasadena Playhouse. She was offered a scholarship to enroll at the Pasadena Playhouse, but declined and attended Columbia University as a political science major instead.[2]
Career
A life member of the Actors Studio,[3] Gary began her acting career in the late 1960s doing guest appearances on several popular TV shows. These include Night Gallery, Dragnet 1968, in an episode entitled "The Big Shipment", McCloud, The Marcus-Nelson Murders (the pilot for Kojak), and The F.B.I..[2] She began her first major acting role when she was a guest star on seven episodes of the TV series Ironside, among them "Tom Dayton Is Loose Among Us", in which she played the substitute librarian Miss Kirk, who pushes the unstable Tom Dayton too hard, and "In Search of an Artist", as a woman with a drinking problem who may have been involved in a murder.
Personal life
On 19 August 1956, Gary married entertainment industry executive Sidney Sheinberg, with whom she has two sons.[2] She retired for eight years after the movie 1941 but then came out of her voluntary retirement to reprise Ellen Brody in Jaws: The Revenge. Her sons, Bill Sheinberg and Jonathan Sheinberg, are both film producers. Sheinberg is a member of the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Advisory Committee, for whom she produced and directed a series of fourteen educational videotapes, and an Advisory Board Member of Ms. Magazine and Girls Learn International.[4] In 1995, together with her husband, Gary received the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Humanitarian Award.[5]
Selected filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | The Virginian | Martha Young | TV film |
| 1969 | Laura | ||
| 1970 | Mrs. Nelson | ||
| 1971 | McMillan and Wife | Connie | TV Show Episode: (pilot) Husbands, Wives and Killers |
| 1972 | Night Gallery | Barbera | TV Show Episode: She'll Be Company for You |
| McMillan and Wife | Monica Fontaine | TV Show Episode: Cop of the Year | |
| 1973 | The Marcus-Nelson Murders | Ruthie | Kojak TV film/pilot |
| 1974 | Pray for the Wildcats | Lila Summerfield | TV film |
| 1975 | Jaws | Ellen Brody | |
| 1976 | Car Wash | The Hysterical Lady | |
| 1977 | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Ester Blake | |
| 1978 | Jaws 2 | Ellen Brody | |
| Zero to Sixty | Billy-Jon | ||
| Crash | Emily Mulwray | TV film | |
| 1979 | Just You and Me, Kid | Shirl | |
| 1941 | Joan Douglas | ||
| 1987 | Jaws: The Revenge | Ellen Brody | Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Actress Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress |
References
- ↑ Lorraine Gary profile
- 1 2 3 IMDb profile
- ↑ Garfield, David (1980). "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 278. ISBN 0-02-542650-8.
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