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Swoosie Kurtz
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Named after her father's WW2 air force plane, which got its monicker from a Kay Kyser song ("Half swan, half goose, Alexander is a swoose"), this two-time Tony Awardwinning stage actress has a flair for eccentric characters which she's brought successfully to her screen work in a variety of supporting roles. Bright and unconventionally attractive, sometimes simpering, sometimes sharp-tongued, Kurtz has stolen many a scene with her uniformly meritorious performances in First Love (her first film), Slap Shot (both 1977), Oliver's Story (1978), The World According to Garp (1982, outstanding as a hooker), Against All Odds (1984), Bright Lights, Big City Dangerous Liaisons (somewhat ill at ease in a costume picture), Vice Versa (all 1988), A Shock to the System (another outstanding turn in this black comedy), Stanley and Iris (both 1990), and especially as "the laziest woman in the world" in True Stories (1986). She starred in the TV series "Love, Sidney" (1981-83) and "Sisters" (1991-). In 1993 she starred in two of the year's most prominent made-for-cable movies, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom and And the Band Played On |  |
