Birthday: October 13, 2039
Though best known for her intense, sensitive dramatic portrayals, Melinda Dillon first attracted attention as an improvisational comedienne. Her Broadway break came about when she played the hypertense Honey in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962). Making her film debut playing a small role in The April Fools (1969). Since then Dillon has been Oscar-nominated for ...more- 1981
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Supporting Actress
- Absence of Malice
- nom
- 1977
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Supporting Actress
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- nom
- 2007
- Reign Over Me
- Ginger Timpleman
- 2006
- Debating Robert Lee
- Mrs. Lee
- 2005
- Adam & Steve
- Dottie
- 2005
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Blood
- Jenny Rogers
- 2003
- A Painted House
- Gran Chandler














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