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Jill Clayburgh has starred in over 25 feature films, including Running with
Scissors, I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can, Silver Streak, Semi Tough and Never
Again.
In 1978 she rose to screen prominence with her performance in An Unmarried
Woman. Her portrayal of a newly-divorced woman coping with life earned her
nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and she won the Best
Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Clayburgh also received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe nomination for
her role in Starting Over. Additional Golden Globe nominations were garnered
for her work in First Monday in October and Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna.
Television audiences know her from numerous series and movies, including The
Practice, Ally McBeal, Trinity, Everything's Relative and her Emmy-nominated
roles in Hustling and Nip/Tuck.
On Broadway Clayburgh appeared in the recent revival of Neil Simon's Barefoot
in the Park, Richard Greenberg's A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, a revival of
Noel Coward's Design for Living, the original production of Tom Stoppard's
Jumpers and the Tony Award-winning musicals Pippin and The Rothschilds.
Scissors, I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can, Silver Streak, Semi Tough and Never
Again.
In 1978 she rose to screen prominence with her performance in An Unmarried
Woman. Her portrayal of a newly-divorced woman coping with life earned her
nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and she won the Best
Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Clayburgh also received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe nomination for
her role in Starting Over. Additional Golden Globe nominations were garnered
for her work in First Monday in October and Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna.
Television audiences know her from numerous series and movies, including The
Practice, Ally McBeal, Trinity, Everything's Relative and her Emmy-nominated
roles in Hustling and Nip/Tuck.
On Broadway Clayburgh appeared in the recent revival of Neil Simon's Barefoot
in the Park, Richard Greenberg's A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, a revival of
Noel Coward's Design for Living, the original production of Tom Stoppard's
Jumpers and the Tony Award-winning musicals Pippin and The Rothschilds.
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nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award as well as a Drama League Award. At Lincoln Center Clayburgh was recently seen as
Off-Broadway she originated the role of Sunny in The Exonerated. She also appeared in The Busy World is Hushed, and was
nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award as well as a Drama League Award. At Lincoln Center Clayburgh was recently seen as
Virginia in The Clean House, for which she received nominations for both an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama League
Award.
Off-Broadway she originated the role of Sunny in The Exonerated. She also appeared in The Busy World is Hushed, and was
nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award as well as a Drama League Award. At Lincoln Center Clayburgh was recently seen as
Virginia in The Clean House, for which she received nominations for both an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama League
Award.
