Oscar-nominated actress Melinda Dillon, best remembered as Ralphie's mother in 'A Christmas Story' and for climbing Devils Tower with Richard Dreyfuss in search of UFOs in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' has died at age 83.
Oscar-nominated actress Melinda Dillon, best remembered as Ralphie's mother in"A Christmas Story" and for climbing Devils Tower with Richard Dreyfuss in search of UFOs in"Close Encounters of the Third Kind," has died at age 83.
An Arkansas native, Dillon scored a Tony nomination for her work on Broadway in the 1960s in"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" She made sporadic TV appearances in the 1970s then gained attention in Hal Ashby's film"Bound for Glory" in 1976. She appeared the following year as a hockey wife in the Paul Newman comedy"Slap Shot."
She was nominated again four years later for her performance in"Absence of Malice" as a devout Catholic woman who kills herself when a reporter publishes a story about her abortion.
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