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On her 23rd birthday, Melinda Dillon made her acting debut on Broadway in the original production of Edward Albee's
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf," for which she won the New York Drama Critics Award,
the Theatre World Award and a Tony Nomination.
She worked the next ten years on and off Broadway
in such works as "Story Theatre", "You Know
I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running" and "Oh
Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet And I'm
Feeling So Sad."
She went on to work in films such as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Absence of Malice" (both of which she was nominated for
the Academy Award), "Bound for Glory," "A Christmas Story," Harry and the Hendersons," "Prince of Tides" and "Magnolia."
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