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Piper Laurie - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

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Piper Laurie - real name Rosetta Jacobs, was born on January 22, 1932 in Detroit. Her father, Alfred Jacobs, was a Jewish immigrant Pole, and her mother, Charlotte Sadie Jacobs, half American, half Russian. When Rosetta was six years old, her father took the family from Detroit to Los Angeles. She was a very shy girl, so her parents sent her to a Jewish school for diction and speech development lessons. In addition to these lessons, she also took acting classes, which earned her a contract with Universal Studios at the age of 17. It was then that she took the pseudonym Piper Laurie.

Piper Laurie got her first roles in 1950, in the films Louise and Frances goes to the races. Despite the fact that she continued to work in films, she was embarrassed by the lack of significant roles, she moved from Hollywood to New York. She entered acting courses again and worked on television. Soon she starred in one part of the Hellmark Hall of Fame cycle, as well as in the TV series Theater 90. In 1961, she got her first major role in which she was able to prove herself, playing the mentally distressed girl Sarah Packard in the film Billiard Player. For this role, Piper received an Oscar nomination. After filming, she met journalist Joe Morgenstern, who interviewed her, and they were married nine months later. The film Billiard Player brought her popularity, but not the role. There was a long break in my career that lasted 15 years, she and her family moved to Woodstock, where she devoted herself to raising her daughter Anna Grace, baking, pottery, painting and sculpture.

In 1976 he participated in the filming of the horror film Carrie. For her incarnation as a fanatically religious mother, Margaret White, a timid, mentally unstable daughter, Piper received her second Oscar nomination and her first Golden Globe nomination. In 1981, she divorced her husband and moved to southern California, where she successfully continued her acting career, receiving her third Oscar nomination in 1987 for her role as Mrs. Norman in Children of Silence. Laurie's further career was quite successful, she appeared in more than dozens of films and received rave reviews from critics and viewers. The last film with Piper Laurie was released in 2010 under the title Hesher directed by Spencer Sasser, who made his debut with this picture.

Piper Laurie has brown eyes, natural light brown hair, fair skin and medium lips. The shape of the face is oval, the forehead is medium, the hair is curly, soft. Piper Laurie changes her hair color, giving preference to blonde. The actress has a medium straight nose and a rounded chin. Sometimes wears glasses. The growth of the actress is 164 cm, no tattoos.

Zodiac sign - Aquarius (01/22/1932)


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