Kathleen Quinlan

Kathleen Denise Quinlan (born November 19, 1954) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1977 film of the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and her Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated role in the 1995 film Apollo 13, along with many roles in other feature films, television movies, and series, in a career spanning almost five decades.^[1][2][3]

Early life and education

Quinlan was born on November 19, 1954, in Pasadena, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Her mother Josephine (née Zachry) was a military supply supervisor, and her father Robert Quinlan, was a television sports director.^[4][5][6][7] She was raised in Mill Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area.^[8][9]

Career

Quinlan had an uncredited role in 1972's One Is a Lonely Number^[7][10] but her official credited film debut was in George Lucas's 1973 movie American Graffiti, at the age of 18.^[9]

As a young actress in the 1970s, she also had guest-starring roles in many popular television series of the day, including Police Woman, Kojak, Ironside, Emergency!, and The Waltons.^[11][12]

Her most celebrated roles include playing Deborah, a 16-year-old schizophrenic, in the film version of the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,^[8][9] for which she earned a Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Golden Globe nomination, and portraying Marilyn Lovell, the wife of Tom Hanks's astronaut character Jim Lovell, in the 1995 movie Apollo 13, earning her both a Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Golden Globe nomination and a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination.^[9]

Quinlan also appeared in feature films such as Lifeguard (1976), Airport '77 (1977), The Promise (1979), The Runner Stumbles (1979), Sunday Lovers (1980), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Warning Sign (1985) Sunset (1988), Clara's Heart (1988), and Trial by Jury (1994). She featured in numerous TV movies as well, including Little Ladies of the Night (1977), She's in the Army Now (1981), Blackout (1985), Trapped (1989), Strays (1991), Last Light (1993), the adaptation of the novel In the Lake of the Woods (1996), Blessings (2003), and more. She played Jim Morrison's Celtic pagan consort Patricia Kennealy-Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors. In 1997, she appeared in Event Horizon (1997) and won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award as Favorite Supporting Actress-Suspense for Breakdown (1997), playing Kurt Russell's character's kidnapped wife.^{[citation needed]}

She had a main role for three seasons on the series Family Law, along with recurring roles as the mother of the two brothers on Prison Break, and in Chicago Fire and Blue. She was in two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, plus episodes of many other shows, such as Diagnosis: Murder, Glee, The Event, and House. She appeared in the 2006 remake of the horror classic The Hills Have Eyes, the 2007 film Breach, and the 2008 film Made of Honor, and played a senator in "Alliances", a 2011 episode of the science-fiction series Stargate Universe.^[11]

As of 2022, Quinlan's recent work includes a 2019 episode of How to Get Away with Murder, a lead role in the film Walking with Herb, filmed in 2018 and released in 2021,^[13] and a part in the horror flick The Stairs.

Personal life

In his 2024 memoir Sonny Boy, Al Pacino describes his relationship with Quinlan around 1983 when he was making the film Scarface.

She was married to artist Warren Long in 1987.^[14] She met actor Bruce Abbott, who was married to actress Linda Hamilton at the time, on the TV movie Trapped (1989) and they married on April 12, 1994. They divorced December 24, 2022. They remain good friends, and have one son, Tyler, who was born in 1990.^[4]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

• 20/20 Awards Best Supporting Actress Nomination 2016 - Apollo 13 (1995)
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nomination 1996 - Apollo 13 (1995)^[1]
• Awards Circuit Community Awards (ACCA) Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nomination - Apollo 13 (1995)
• Awards Circuit Community Awards (ACCA) Best Cast Ensemble - Apollo 13 (1995)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Award as Favorite Supporting Actress-Suspense Winner - Breakdown (1997)
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (CFCA Award) Nominee for Best Supporting Actress 1996 - Apollo 13 (1995)
• Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards (DFWFCA Award) Nominee for Best Supporting Actress 1996 - Apollo 13 (1995)
• European Cinematography Awards (ECA) Best Actress Winner 2020 - The Stairs (2021)
• FilmQuest (FilmQuest Cthulhu) Best Supporting Actress Winner 2018 - Chimera Strain (2018)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Nomination 1978 - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)^[3]
• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nomination 1996 - Apollo 13 (1995)^[3]
• Mystfest Best Actress Winner 1985 - Blackout (1985)
• NOLA Horror Film Fest Best Supporting Role Winner 2018 - Chimera Strain (2018)
• Online Film & Television Association (OFTA Television Award) Best Actress in a New Drama Series Nominee 2000 - Family Law (1999)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast Winner 1996 - Apollo 13 (1995) (shared with Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton, and Gary Sinise)^[15]

References

1. ^ "The 68th Academy Awards | 1996". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
2. ^ "ACADEMY COLLECTIONS | details". collections.new.oscars.org. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
3. ^ "Kathleen Quinlan". www.goldenglobes.com. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
4. ^ "Kathleen Quinlan Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
5. ^ "Family tree of Kathleen Denise Quinlan". Geneanet. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
6. ^ "Family tree of Robert Quinlan". Geneanet. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
7. ^ Brantley, Robin (22 July 1977). "New Face: Kathleen Quinlan (Published 1977)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
8. ^ Reed, Rex (February 13, 1978). "I Deserve the Nomination -- Kathleen Quinlan". The Shreveport Journal. p. 9. Retrieved August 8, 2020. – via Newspapers.com
9. ^ "Kathleen Quinlan is waiting for the right role". EW.com. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
10. ^ "Kathleen Quinlan". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
11. ^ "Kathleen Quinlan". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
12. ^ "Kathleen Quinlan". BFI. Archived from the original on June 17, 2017. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
13. ^ Lang, Brent (2020-12-28). "George Lopez Joins Dito Montiel's 'Afterward' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
14. ^ Goodman, Jeff (2016-01-15). "Beach memorial to honor late artist Warren Long". Santa Monica Daily Press
15. ^ "The 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | Screen Actors Guild Awards". www.sagawards.org. Retrieved 2021-01-27.

External links

• Kathleen Quinlan at IMDb
• Kathleen Quinlan at Rotten Tomatoes