#Tim pool sister movie#

#Tim pool sister movie#

A publicist on the set of a movie she was shooting observed a scene that involved putting flowers in a salad. The studio was looking for an angle that had not been used before. It was the era of publicity gimmicks, an attempt to brand new performers, especially starlets, with fabricated, sometimes outrageous histories or habits. Laurie, whose birth name was Rosetta Jacobs, was 17 when Universal-International signed her as a contract player and gave her the screen name Piper Laurie - a change about which she had mixed feelings. She received eight other Emmy nominations, including for her roles as the vengeful paper-mill manager on the original 'Twin Peaks,' Rachel Ward's sympathetic married friend in 'The Thorn Birds' and the comically vicious mother of a coldhearted psychiatrist on the NBC sitcom 'Frasier.' Just before that, she had won an Emmy for 'Promise' (1986), an acclaimed CBS movie about schizophrenia in which she played James Garner's helpful ex-girlfriend. She received her third nomination for her role as the estranged mother of a young deaf woman (Marlee Matlin) in 'Children of a Lesser God' (1986). After a 15-year break from making movies, she earned a comeback nomination for her performance as the deranged religious mother of a telekinetic teenager (Sissy Spacek) in 'Carrie' (1976). Laurie's first Academy Award nomination was for best actress in 'The Hustler' (1961), in which she played a lonely alcoholic who hooks up with a dissolute pool player played by Paul Newman.

Her manager, Marion Rosenberg, confirmed the death, but did not specify the cause. Piper Laurie, who escaped the 1950s Hollywood starlet-making machinery to become a respected actress with three Oscar nominations and an Emmy Award, died Saturday at a nursing facility in Los Angeles.