"The film also marked a departure for some of its stars: it is noted for being one of the first ""serious"" works of Cher, who had been previously known mostly for her singing, and for Russell, who was at the time widely known for his work in the action genre. The film received positive reviews and was a box office success, with particular attention focused on the performances by the three leads. At the 56th Academy Awards, ""Silkwood"" received five nominations in total, including Streep for Best Actress, Cher for Best Supporting Actress, Nichols for Best Director. After being out"
"Karen Silkwood Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for raising concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety of workers in a nuclear facility. Following her mysterious death, which received extensive coverage, her estate filed a lawsuit against chemical company Kerr-McGee, which was eventually settled for $1.38 million. Her story was chronicled in Mike Nichols's 1983 Academy Award-nominated film ""Silkwood"" in which she was portrayed by Meryl Streep. She worked at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, United States. Silkwood's job"
"Michele Lee Michele Lee (born June 24, 1942) is an American actress, singer, dancer, producer and director. She is known for her role as Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie on the 1980s prime-time soap opera ""Knots Landing"" (1979–93), for which she was nominated for a 1982 Emmy Award and won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Actress in 1988, 1991 and 1992. She was the only performer to appear in all 344 episodes of the series. Lee began her career on Broadway in ""Vintage 60"" (1960) and ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" (1961). She made her movie"
"Sarah Lancaster Sarah Lancaster (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. She is known for her long-running roles as Rachel Meyers in the NBC series """" and Ellie Bartowski in the NBC comedy-spy series ""Chuck"", as well as playing Chloe Grefe in ""Lovers Lane"", Madison Kellner on The WB's ""Everwood"", and Marjorie in ABC's TV series ""What About Brian"". Lancaster has appeared on ""Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"", ""Dawson's Creek"", ""That '70s Show"", ""Scrubs"", and """". She also landed two recurring roles: on The WB series, ""Everwood"", as Ephram's love interest Madison Kellner; and on David E. Kelley's FOX series,"
"Brittany Underwood Brittany Underwood (born July 6, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as teenagers Langston Wilde on the daytime soap opera ""One Life to Live"" and Loren Tate on the Nick at Nite/TeenNick serial drama ""Hollywood Heights"". Brittany Underwood was born on July 6, 1988 in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. Her mother is Colombian and her father is of English descent. She has an older sister named Brigitte. Underwood speaks fluent Spanish and is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. In an interview with SOAPnet in 2010, Underwood said she was"
"Kate Rockwell (actress) Kate Rockwell (born Katherine Rockwell Wilfong; August 4, 1984) is an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for her work on Broadway and for originating the roles of Skylar in """" in 2011 and of Karen Smith in the 2018 musical, ""Mean Girls"", for the latter of which she received Drama Desk Award and Helen Hayes Award nominations. Rockwell was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the eldest child born to Charles Wilfong and Linda Warner (née Rockwell). She has two younger siblings, Elizabeth (who goes by ""Libet"") and William (who goes by ""Bear""). She"
"Madeleine Sherwood Madeleine Sherwood (November 13, 1922 – April 23, 2016) was a Canadian actress of stage, film and television. She was widely known for her portrayals of Mae/Sister Woman and Miss Lucy in both the Broadway and film versions of Tennessee Williams' ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" and ""Sweet Bird of Youth"". She starred or featured in 18 original Broadway productions including ""Arturo Ui"", ""Do I Hear a Waltz?"" and ""The Crucible"". In 1963 she won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in ""Hey You, Light Man!"" Off-Broadway. However, she may be best remembered as"
"Sandra Peabody Sandra Peabody (born January 11, 1948) is an American script supervisor, screenwriter, producer, acting coach and former actress and model. While her acting career, on stage and film, only lasted from 1970 to 1974, she gained prominence for her role as the ill-fated Mari Collingwood in Wes Craven's debut film ""The Last House on the Left"" (1972). A cult hit, the film established her as a prominent actress in horror, and she subsequently starred in ""Voices of Desire"" (1972), ""Massage Parlor Murders!"" (1973), and ""Legacy of Satan"" (1974). Peabody's other notable role is Bird in the independent comedy"
"J. Karen Thomas J. Karen Thomas (1965 – March 26, 2015) was an American actress, singer, and voice artist. Her numerous television credits included her role as Audrey Carlisle on the dramatic television series, ""Nashville"". Other television roles included recurring roles and guest appearances on ""Drop Dead Diva"", ""The Ellen Show"" and ""Criminal Minds"". Thomas' cinematic credits included ""The Identical"" (2014), ""Captive"" (2015), and a co-starring role in the 2014 film, ""Boulevard"", which was shot in her native Nashville, opposite Robin Williams. Thomas was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated from Memphis State University, now known as the University of"
"remained a Canadian citizen all her life. She was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Sherwood died on April 23, 2016, at her childhood home in Lac Cornu, Quebec. No cause of death was disclosed. She was survived by her daughter. Madeleine Sherwood Madeleine Sherwood (November 13, 1922 – April 23, 2016) was a Canadian actress of stage, film and television. She was widely known for her portrayals of Mae/Sister Woman and Miss Lucy in both the Broadway and film versions of Tennessee Williams' ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" and ""Sweet Bird of Youth"". She starred or"
"of print on DVD in the United States, the film was released on Blu-ray on July 25, 2017. Karen Silkwood, a worker at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site (near Crescent, Oklahoma), shares a ramshackle house with two co-workers, her boyfriend Drew Stephens and her lesbian friend Dolly Pelliker. She makes plutonium fuel rods for nuclear reactors, where she deals with the threat of exposure to radiation. She has become a union activist, concerned that corporate practices may adversely affect the health of workers. She is also engaged in a conflict with her former common-law husband in an effort to"
"York City with their two dogs, Mabel and Bessie. Kate Rockwell (actress) Kate Rockwell (born Katherine Rockwell Wilfong; August 4, 1984) is an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for her work on Broadway and for originating the roles of Skylar in """" in 2011 and of Karen Smith in the 2018 musical, ""Mean Girls"", for the latter of which she received Drama Desk Award and Helen Hayes Award nominations. Rockwell was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the eldest child born to Charles Wilfong and Linda Warner (née Rockwell). She has two younger siblings, Elizabeth (who goes"
"Underwood officially began a singing career in 2012. On December 18, 2012, Underwood released a single called ""Flow"". It and more songs like ""Pull Me in Again"", ""Black Widow"", ""California Wild"", ""Love Me Now or Let Me Go"", ""Shine"" and ""High Heels High Hopes"" all are on her EP in iTunes and YouTube. In 2015, she released a single titled ""Not Yet"". In 2014 Underwood played the lead in the television film ""Death Clique"". Brittany Underwood Brittany Underwood (born July 6, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as teenagers Langston Wilde on the"
"Adrianne León Adrianne Therese León (born March 15, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter, chef, personal fitness trainer, model and actress. She is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Caught Crimson. León began writing songs for the soap opera ""General Hospital"". León went on to have a role as the punk rock teen Brook Lynn Ashton, which earned her an Daytime Emmy nomination and a Soap Opera Digest Award, but left the ABC soap for the CBS soap opera ""The Young and the Restless"", where she took over the role of Colleen Carlton. Adrianne León was born in"
"Karen Kamon Karen Ichiuji-Ramone, known by her stage name Karen Kamon, is an American singer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her performance of ""Manhunt"" on the soundtrack to the movie ""Flashdance."" She also sang ""Squeeze Play"" on the soundtrack to the movie ""D.C. Cab"" and provided character voices for the movie ""Oliver & Company."" In television, she appeared in one episode of the U.S. TV series ""T.J. Hooker."" She is listed as a production associate on Karen Carpenter's solo album and credited, on the Carpenters compilation album ""Lovelines,"" as a friend of Karen Carpenter. She was also"
"in 1950). She lived her final years in seclusion in Kingston upon Thames, dying at the Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, London, from cirrhosis of the liver, aged 73. Her body was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium. She was survived by her daughter, the actress Julia Lockwood (née Margaret Julia Leon, born 1941). Various polls of exhibitors consistently listed Lockwood among the most popular stars of her era: Margaret Lockwood Margaret Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990), was an English actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included ""The Lady"
"Coleen Sexton Coleen Sexton (born February 5, 1979, in Westfield, New Jersey) is an American stage actress who made her Broadway debut at age 20 in Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's ""Jekyll & Hyde"" in 2000. She portrayed the starring role of Lucy Harris in the Broadway production, as an understudy from 1999, and took over the role from Luba Mason in January 2000. She can be seen on the DVD of the show starring Andrea Rivette as Emma Carew and David Hasselhoff in the title role. Before making her debut in Jekyll and Hyde Coleen was a singer/performer in"
"Julie London Julie London (née Nancy Gayle Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress, whose career spanned more than 40 years. Born in Santa Rosa, California to Vaudevillian parents, London was discovered while working as an elevator operator in downtown Los Angeles, and began her career as an actress. London's 35-year acting career began in film in 1944, and included roles as the female lead in numerous Westerns, co-starring with Rock Hudson in ""The Fat Man"" (1951), with Robert Taylor and John Cassavetes in ""Saddle the Wind"" (1958), and opposite Robert Mitchum in"
"Susan Fleetwood Susan Maureen Fleetwood (21 September 1944 – 29 September 1995) was a British stage, film, and television actress, best known as a performer in classical theatre. She received popular attention in the television series ""Chandler & Co"" and ""The Buddha of Suburbia"". Fleetwood was born in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, the daughter of Bridget Maureen (née Brereton) and John Joseph Kells Fleetwood, an RAF officer. She was the elder sister of musician and actor Mick Fleetwood, drummer of rock band Fleetwood Mac. The service family was stationed in Egypt in the years before the Suez crisis and, afterwards,"
"liability. Karen Gay Silkwood was born in Longview, Texas, the daughter of Merle (née Biggs 1926–2014) and William Silkwood, and raised in Nederland, Texas. She had two sisters, Linda and Rosemary. She attended Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. In 1965, she married William Meadows, an oil pipeline worker, with whom she had three children. Following the couple's bankruptcy due to Meadows' overspending, and in the face of Meadows' refusal to end an extramarital affair, Silkwood left Meadows in 1972 and moved to Oklahoma City, where she briefly worked as a hospital clerk. After being hired at Kerr-McGee in 1972, Silkwood"
"Lady"" (2001) and ""Johnny Johnson"". Ward appeared in several episodes of the 2005 series ""Broken News"". She has appeared in an episode of ""Torchwood"" and """". She also appeared in the 1997 film ""In & Out"" as a student. Lauren Ward Lauren Ward (born June 19, 1970) is an American singer and actress. She has appeared in Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End musicals and plays. Ward originated the role of Miss Honey in the original Stratford-Upon-Avon, West End and Broadway productions of the musical ""Matilda"", and has been nominated for the Tony Award, Best Featured Actress in a Musical for"
"because Byrnes first saw him in a pet adoption segment on ""The Price Is Right"". Byrnes saw ""Price"" but wasn't able to adopt him, so León did. Films Television Guest Appearances Adrianne León Adrianne Therese León (born March 15, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter, chef, personal fitness trainer, model and actress. She is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Caught Crimson. León began writing songs for the soap opera ""General Hospital"". León went on to have a role as the punk rock teen Brook Lynn Ashton, which earned her an Daytime Emmy nomination and a Soap Opera"
"Candye Kane Candace Hogan (November 13, 1961 – May 6, 2016), known professionally as Candye Kane, was an American blues singer and entertainer. She entered a successful music career after being a pornographic actress during porn's golden age. She was recognized as an award-winning singer, songwriter, and performer in the blues and jazz genres. She was included in the books ""Rolling Stone Guide to Jazz and Blues,"" ""Elwood's Blues"" by Dan Aykroyd, ""The Blueshound Guide to Blues,"" ""AllMusic,"" and other blues books and periodicals. Kane was born Candace Hogan in Ventura, California. She was raised in Highland Park, a Los"
"Toni Collette Toni Collett (born 1 November 1972), credited professionally as Toni Collette, is an Australian actress and musician, known for her acting work on stage, television, and film, as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish. She has received six AACTA Awards, one Primetime Emmy, one Golden Globe and one Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA and once for an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Collette's acting career began in the early 1990s with comedic roles in films such as ""Spotswood"" (1992)"
"Kate Micucci Kate Micucci ( ; born March 31, 1980) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, singer, songwriter and artist that is one half of the musical comedy duo ""Garfunkel and Oates"". Some of her well known roles include Stephanie Gooch in ""Scrubs"", Shelley in ""Raising Hope"", Lucy in ""The Big Bang Theory"", Sadie in ""Steven Universe"", Sara Murphy in ""Milo Murphy's Law"", Daisy in ""Nature Cat"", Clayface in ""The Lego Batman Movie"", Velma Dinkley in ""Scooby-Doo"", Webby Vanderquack in ""DuckTales"", and Dr. Fox in ""Unikitty!"". Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, of Italian ancestry, Micucci was raised in"
"minor in Musical Theatre. At USC, Ricafort participated in the a cappella group SoCal VoCals. , Ricafort was appearing in a new Broadway production of Irving Berlin's ""Holiday Inn"". Ricafort appeared as Karen in ""SpongeBob SquarePants"" from June 19, 2018 up until its closure on September 16, 2018. Catherine Ricafort Catherine Ricafort is an American actress and singer. Ricafort has appeared in several Broadway productions, including Allegiance, the 2013 production of Cinderella, Mamma Mia!, Disaster! and Honeymoon in Vegas. Ricafort also appeared on NBC's The Sing-Off, in season 2, as part of the group, The Backbeats. Although her family comes"
"the age of 79. They had three children, including Matthew Ramone, general manager of Phil Ramone Incorporated. Karen Kamon Karen Ichiuji-Ramone, known by her stage name Karen Kamon, is an American singer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her performance of ""Manhunt"" on the soundtrack to the movie ""Flashdance."" She also sang ""Squeeze Play"" on the soundtrack to the movie ""D.C. Cab"" and provided character voices for the movie ""Oliver & Company."" In television, she appeared in one episode of the U.S. TV series ""T.J. Hooker."" She is listed as a production associate on Karen Carpenter's solo album"
"in the 2013 remake of the classic horror film ""The Evil Dead. In 2014, Lucas appeared in ""Pompeii"" directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. Since 2015 she has had a regular role in FOX's ""Gotham"" as Tabitha Galavan/Tigress. Jessica Lucas Jessica Lucas (born September 24, 1985) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is known for her roles in television, such as ""Edgemont"", ""Melrose Place"", ""Cult"", and ""Gotham"", and in the films ""The Covenant"", ""Cloverfield"" and the 2013 ""Evil Dead"". She also starred in the music video for Coldplay's 2014 single ""True Love"". Lucas was born and raised in Vancouver,"
"Rosalind Cash Rosalind Theresa Cash (December 31, 1938October 31, 1995) was an American singer and actress. Cash best known film role is as Charlton Heston's character's love interest Lisa, in the 1971 science fiction film, ""The Omega Man"". Cash also had another notable role to the soap opera audiences as Mary Mae Ward on the ABC's ""General Hospital"", a role she portrayed from 1994 until her death in 1995. Cash was the second of four children born in Atlantic City, New Jersey to John O. Sr., a clerk and Martha Elizabeth Cash. Her siblings were John Jr. (1936–1998), Robert (1939),"
"Haywoode Haywoode (Sidney Haywoode, London) is an English female singer. She is best known for the 1986 UK Top 20 hit single, ""Roses"". She later also recorded under the name Sid Haywoode. Haywoode trained from an early age at London's Corona Stage Academy. Her career started with modeling, dancing and acting roles in British television shows like ""The Gentle Touch"" and was a regular as a Hill's Angel on ""The Benny Hill Show"". She featured in movies including ""Ragtime"" and ""Superman"". Among singing, dancing and modelling roles in the West End theatre (""Bubbling Brown Sugar""), she joined Flick Colby's Zoo,"
"Sara Paxton Sara Paxton (born April 25, 1988) is an American actress and singer known for her role as Mari Collingwood in the horror film ""The Last House on the Left"" (2009). She grew up in California and began acting at an early age, appearing in many minor roles in both films and television shows, before rising to fame in 2004, after playing the title role in the television series ""Darcy's Wild Life"" (2004-2006) and Sarah Borden in ""Summerland"" (2004). Paxton's other films include ""Aquamarine"" (2006), ""Return to Halloweentown"" (2006), ""Sydney White"" (2007), ""Superhero Movie"" (2008) and ""The Innkeepers"" (2011)."
"Jane Kean Jane Kean (April 10, 1923 – November 26, 2013) was an American actress and singer, whose career in show business spanned seven decades and included appearing in nightclubs, on recordings, and in radio, television, Broadway and films. Among her most famous roles were as Trixie Norton on ""The Honeymooners"" with Jackie Gleason, and as the voice of Belle in the perennial favorite ""Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol"". Kean and her older sister Betty Kean, formed a comedy duo that worked the nightclub circuit throughout the 1940s/50s, and the two appeared on Broadway as sisters in the short-lived 1955 musical,"
"series, ""Easy"" along with Orlando Bloom and Malin Akerman. Micucci married musician and recording producer Jake Sinclair in February 2018. They live in Los Angeles and New York. On December 30, 2009, G4TV named Micucci the #1 Woman of Comedy. Kate Micucci Kate Micucci ( ; born March 31, 1980) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, singer, songwriter and artist that is one half of the musical comedy duo ""Garfunkel and Oates"". Some of her well known roles include Stephanie Gooch in ""Scrubs"", Shelley in ""Raising Hope"", Lucy in ""The Big Bang Theory"", Sadie in ""Steven Universe"", Sara Murphy"