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Estelle Parsons

Highest Rated: 100% I Never Sang for My Father (1970)

Lowest Rated: 13% That Darn Cat (1997)

Birthday: Nov 20, 1927

Birthplace: Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA

The first female political reporter on network TV during her five-year stint with "The Today Show" (NBC) in the early 1950s, Estelle Parsons made her Broadway debut as a reporter in the Ethel Merman musical "Happy Hunting" (1956) and later won a Theatre World Award in the title role of "Mrs. Dally Takes a Lover" (1962). Although she had acted in the feature "Ladybug, Ladybug" (1963), it was her second film (and first Hollywood movie) role as the shrewish Blanche Barrow in Arthur Penn's landmark "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) that established her credentials as a wonderful screen character actress. Hysterical with bullets whizzing by and grief-stricken after the shoot-out that blinded her in one eye and left her husband Buck (Gene Hackman) dead, she unwittingly provided law enforcement with the info that would lead to the demise of Bonnie (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde (Warren Beatty). Her tour de force performance earned that year's Best Supporting Actress Oscar, and her next outing as Joanne Woodward's schoolteacher colleague in Paul Newman's directing debut, "Rachel, Rachel" (1968), garnered another Academy Award nomination in the category.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 83% I Never Sang for My Father
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93% 69% Diane Watchlist
92% 77% Rachel, Rachel
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90% 88% Bonnie and Clyde Watchlist
88% 70% Watermelon Man
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83% 80% Looking for Richard
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80% 55% Wilde Salomé
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73% 68% Boys on the Side
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50% 53% For Pete's Sake
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13% 24% That Darn Cat
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Filmography

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Diane 93% 69% 2018 Mary Actor She's the Best Thing In It 2015 Self Wilde Salomé 80% 55% 2011 Actor Strip Search 46% 2004 Roberta Gray Actor Freak City 74% 1999 Mrs. Stanapolous Actor The Love Letter 78% 1998 Beatrice Corrigan Actor That Darn Cat 13% 24% 1997 Old Lady McCracken, Rucluse Widow Actor Looking for Richard 83% 80% 1996 Queen Margaret/Herself Actor Boys on the Side 73% 68% 1995 Louise Actor A Private Matter 44% 1992 Mary Chessen Actor Open Admissions 1988 Clare Block Actor Come Along With Me 1981 Mabel Lederer/Angela Motorman Actor The Gentleman Bandit 1981 Marjorie Seebode Actor Foreplay 1975 1st Lady/Barmaid Actor The UFO Incident 53% 1975 Betty Hill Actor The Gun and the Pulpit 1974 Sadie Underwood Actor For Pete's Sake 50% 53% 1974 Helen Robbins Actor Terror on the Beach 1973 Arlene Glynn Actor Two People 1973 Barbara Newman Actor I Never Sang for My Father 100% 83% 1970 Alice Actor I Walk the Line 69% 1970 Ellen Haney Actor Watermelon Man 88% 70% 1970 Althea Gerber Actor The Front Page 1970 Mollie Malloy Actor Don't Drink the Water 37% 1969 Marion Hollander Actor Rachel, Rachel 92% 77% 1968 Calla Mackie Actor
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