Lee Remick

14 December, 1935

| 1.70 m

Actress

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Biography

Lee Remick

Lee Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Gertrude Margaret (Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin Remick, a department store owner. She had Irish and English ancestry. Remick was educated at Barnard College, studied dance and worked on stage and TV, before making her film debut as a sexy Southern majorette in Elia Kazan's Twarz w tłumie (1957). Her next role was also southern: Eula Varner in Długie, gorące lato (1958). She emerged as a real star in the role of an apparent rape victim in Anatomia morderstwa (1959). And she won an Academy Award nomination for her role as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in Dni wina i róż (1962). After more work in TV and movies, she moved to England in 1970, making more movies there. In 1988 she formed a production company with partners James Garner and Peter K. Duchow.

Movies

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

An alcoholic marries a young woman and systematically addicts her to booze so that they can share his "passion" together.

A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.

A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.

A Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.

A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.