• Name: Lee Remick
  • Date of Birth: December 14, 1935
  • Place of Birth: Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
Mini-bio: An elegant, blonde beauty once considered the American equivalent to Bridgit Bardot, Lee Remick was a star of stage, screen, and television. Before launching her acting career on-stage and in televisi... read moreon in the 1950s, Remick was a professional dancer. She made quite a splash as a sexy young drum majorette in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957). Early in her career, Remick excelled in playing saucy flirts; she eventually matured into a versatile actress noted for the subtle depth she gave her characterizations and specialized in playing manipulators in films such as The Long Hot Summer (1957) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959). She also did well as a victim in films like Days of Wine and Roses (1962). When not busy in films, Remick was building her reputation on stage and television. On Broadway, Remick was most closely associated with Frederick Knott's Wait Until Dark, a role that won her a Tony nomination. During the '70s, Remick became a familiar face in numerous television movies and miniseries, the phase of her career for which she is perhaps best remembered. She specialized in real-life dramas. Highlights of her television career include A Delicate Balance (1973), A Girl Named Sooner (1975), and The Women's Room (1980). Her feature-film career however became more sporadic. With James Garner and Peter Duchow, Remick formed a production company in 1988. For much of her career, Remick had battled cancer. She finally succumbed to it in 1991 at the age of 55. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Lee was born in Quincy, Massachusetts on Dec 14th, 1935.

She was educated at at Barnard College, studied dance and worked on stage and TV before making her film debut as a sexy Southern majorette in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957). Her next role was also southern: Eula Varner in The Long, Hot Summer (1958). She emerged as a real star in the role of an apparent rape victim in Anatomy of a Murder (1959). And she won an Academy Award nomination for her role as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses (1962). After more work in TV and movies, she moved to England in 1970, making more movies there. Her biggest success during this time period was the horror film The Omen (1976) co-starring Gregory Peck. In 1988 she formed a production company with partners James Garner and Peter K. Duchow. Lee passed away on July 2nd, 1991 from liver and kidney cancer.

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Eye color: green
Height: 5"7
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Education: Barnard College
Family: Kip Gowans (husband 12 December 1970-until her death); Matt Colleran (son, born 1961); Kate Sullivan (daughter born 1959). Both children from first husband Bill Colleran (3 August 1957- 23 November 1968) (divorced)
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