Melinda Dillon

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Melinda Dillon

Melinda Dillon

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Melinda Dillon

Date of Birth: October 13, 1939
Date of Passing: January 09, 2023
Birthplace: Hope, Arkansas

Melinda Dillon was an American actress who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Jillian Guiler in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Teresa Perrone in Absence of Malice (1981). She is well known for playing Mother Parker in the holiday classic A Christmas Story (1983).

Melinda Dillon was an American actress who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Jillian Guiler in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Teresa Perrone in Absence of Malice (1981). She is well known for playing Mother Parker in the holiday classic A Christmas Story (1983).

Her other film roles include Bound for Glory (1976), Slap Shot (1977), F.I.S.T. (1978), The Muppet Movie (1979), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Captain America (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, How to Make an American Quilt (both 1995), Magnolia (1999), for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Reign Over Me (2007).

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