RIP: Jill Clayburgh

November 6, 2010


Sad news this morning that Jill Clayburgh has died of leukemia at age 66. I always admired her as an actress — she was beautiful and intelligent and talented and able to play awkwardness with such humanity and nuance. Condolences to her husband, the playwright David Rabe, her daughter, Lily (currently playing Portia on Broadway in The Merchant of Venice), and her brother Jim, who was the genius set designer for much of the Wooster Group’s early work.

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