Karen Black—an actress who became one of the faces of the “New Hollywood” with performances in 1970s classics like Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, and Nashville—has died. The announcement was made by Black’s husband on his Facebook page, who shared the news only a day after writing on his blog that the cancer Black had been battling for more than two years had caused her condition to deteriorate rapidly in recent weeks. Black died at the age of 74. Black’s movie debut came in 1959 with The Prime Time, though her career didn’t really get ...
- 8/8/2013
- avclub.com
She crossed genres between high drama and low schlock. She acted for and with the likes of Robert Altman, Alfred Hitchcock and Peter Fonda. She worked on the stage and screens both big and small, scoring an Oscar nomination and charming audiences along the way. So it is with sadness that we report that Karen Black has died at the age of 74.Born in Illinois in 1939, she decided to pursue an acting career on the New York stage during her college years. After studying with Lee Strasberg and working for a few years in off Broadway productions, she won her first film role with 1959’s The Prime Time. Yet despite the lure of a big screen career, she chose to focus on the stage, and spent the next six years in the theatre.Still, cinema was to call in a big way with some memorable movies including Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces,...
- 8/8/2013
- EmpireOnline
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