Biographies: Karen Black - Actor

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Actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter, born on July 1, 1939, in Illinois, in a suburb of Chicago. She was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her movie Five Easy Pieces, co-starring Jack Nicholson. At the end of the seventies of the last century, she began to struggle to get a role in good films, and she acted in low-budget horror films, and in the eighties she moved to the small screen. Among her most prominent works are: Capricorn One (1977), Easy Rider (1969), and Crime and Passion (1976). She was diagnosed with cancer. She left more than a hundred films in which she participated in her artistic journey that spanned over 40 years. She died on August 8, 2013.

• 13 March 2022
• farah ashraf