An Oscar Nominated Jill Clayburgh Dies,Jill Clayburgh, Jill Clayburgh pics, Oscar-nominated actress,Jill Clayburgh, an Oscar-nominated actress known for portraying strong, independent woman who died Friday at his home in Lakeville, Conn. She was 66.The cause was chronic leukemia, with whom she lived for 21 years, her husband, playwright David Rabe, said.

Ms. Clayburgh, who began his career in film and on Broadway in the late 1960′s, was one of the first generation of young actresses – including Ellen Burstyn, Carrie Snodgress and Marsha Mason – who is regularly portrayed characters emerged from the new feminist ethos : smart, capable and sand, sometimes neurotic, but no less glamorous for all.

“I think people look at me and they think I’m the lady character,” Ms. Clayburgh told The New York Times in 1982. “But it’s not what I do best. I’m better with characters that come apart at the seams.”

She was known in particular for her role in the movie “An Unmarried Woman” (1978), directed by Paul Mazursky. For her performance as Eric, New Yorker, who must themselves right after her husband leaves her for another woman, Ms. Clayburgh was nominated for an Academy Award.,Jill Clayburgh photos,Jill Clayburgh, an Oscar-nominated actress who starred on Broadway, television and movies, including “An Unmarried Woman” and “Dirty Sexy Money”, died. She was 66.Her husband, playwright David Rabe, said Clayburgh was surrounded by his family and his brother, when she died last week at his home in Lakeville, Conn., after a 21-year struggle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Rabe said that his wife treated the disease with courage, calm and privately.She was nominated for an Oscar in the category of “An Unmarried Woman” and “Starting Over.” She survived three children, including actress Lily Rabe, Michael Rabe and stepson Jason Rabe. Rabe said that would not be a funeral. Family will have a memorial in about six months.