Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932) is an American actress. Born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Los Angeles, California when she was young. She signed a contract with Universal Studios when she was 17, co-starring with Ronald Reagan in Louisa.
 
Dissatisfied with the work she was being offered in Hollywood, Laurie went to New York City in 1955 to work on the live television programs of the 1950s, in such productions as Twelfth Night and Days of Wine and Roses. In 1961 she returned to Hollywood to star opposite Paul Newman in The Hustler, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
 
Once again disenchanted with the work available, Laurie returned to semi-retirement to raise a family. She appeared in the Australian film Tim opposite a very young Mel Gibson, but perhaps her most famous role in her later career was as the fanatically religious mother in Carrie, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received another Supporting Actress nomination in 1987 for Children of a Lesser God. She had a recurring role in the television series Twin Peaks.
 
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Hounddog

Starring: Dakota Fanning, Piper Laurie, David Morse, Robin Wright-Penn, Jil... Review: This ain't the old Dakota Fanning rape movie they showed at Sundance nearly two years ago to a rain of critical revulsion. This is the re-edited Dakota Fanning rape movie that re-emerges as an even riper piece of cheese. Fanning, then 12, plays Lewellen, toughing it out in 1950s Alabama with her nut-case daddy (David Morse) and religious-zealot grammie (Piper Laurie) but finding solace in her worship of Elvis. The rape, barely glimpsed, happens when Lewellen does a dance for a local boy who promises her a ticket to the King's concert. If there's a Southern-gothic cliché (oh, those snakes!) that writer-director Deborah Kampmeier misses, I don't know it. What I can't figure is why anyone would want to release this tripe in theaters just when Fanning has nearly lived it down. They ain't... Rating: 0.5 Star
Published: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:12:58 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the article

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