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Jill Clayburgh
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David Rabe (1979 - ?); 2 children
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Trivia

Lived with Al Pacino from 1970-75.

Daughter is named Lily and son named Michael

Attended the prestigious Brearley Finishing School.

Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:

Tall, patrician Broadway actress who moved over to film and was the very model of the 1970s modern, liberated woman, as best exemplified by her well-received star turn in An Unmarried Woman (1978), which brought her an Oscar nomination here and the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Almost unnoticed in her tyro screen appearance in 1969's The Wedding Party she worked mostly on stage and in TV before landing small roles in such films as Portnoy's Complaint (1972) and The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973).

Clayburgh accumulated more movie work and in 1976 managed both to hit the top, as Gene Wilder's love interest in the smash Silver Streak and scrape the bottom, as the distaff half of Gable and Lombard a legendary fiasco. She displayed considerable comedic prowess in SemiTough (1977), Starting Over (1979, another Oscar nomination), It's My Turn (1980), and First Monday in October (1981), in which she prophetically played a conservative Supreme Court justice just before Sandra Day O'Connor did it for real. In fact, she owed much of her success to roles that cast her as sensitive, pragmatic, independent women; moviegoers (especially feminine ones) associated her with the burgeoning feminist movement and changing attitudes about women's roles in society.

Clayburgh also played a doomed opera diva in Luna (1979) and a pill-popping director in I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982), the latter scripted by playwrighthusband David Rabe. She sparkled in such TV-movies as Hustling (1975, as a hooker) and Griffin and Phoenix (1976, as one of two terminally ill lovers). Relatively inactive in films lately, she was excellent, however, as a distraught mother in Where Are the Children? (1986) and a photojournalist in Shy People (1987). Foresaking a full-time career to raise a family, Clayburgh was little-seen for several years, but has recently become more visible, in telefilms and such features as Whispers in the Dark (1992), Rich in Love (1993), and Naked in New York (1994).

Jill Clayburgh stared in:

Title Year Saw with/at: Scene On Rating
The Thief Who Came to Dinner 1973 0000-00-00 ***
Silver Streak 1976 0000-00-00 ***
Semi-Tough 1977 108 0000-00-00 ** 1/2
First Monday in October 1981 Don't Remember 0000-00-00 ***
Running with Scissors 2006 Running with Scissors 2007-03-25 *** 1/2
Love and Other Drugs 2010 Suzy 2015-09-09 *** 1/2
Bridesmaids 2011 Suzy 2011-10-16 * 1/2