{"id":29981,"date":"2013-08-08T19:54:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T23:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=29981"},"modified":"2013-08-08T19:54:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T23:54:40","slug":"karen-black-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/08\/karen-black-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Black, 74"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KarenBlack\"<\/a>Karen Black, the actress nominated for a Best Support Actress Academy Award for her work in the 1970 drama Five Easy Pieces<\/strong>, died earlier today after a long struggle with cancer. She was 74.<\/p>\n

Black entered Northwestern University in 1954 at age 15 but dropped out two years later to pursue a career in acting. Following study with Lee Strasberg in New York, Black landed several off-Broadway roles before making her Great White Way debut in 1965’s The Playroom<\/em>. She made landed her first major role in a film a year later as part of the cast of Francis Ford Coppola’s You’re A Big Boy Now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Through the late 1960s and early `70s, Black was most often associated with dramatic films that charted the societal changes the country was undergoing. Her role as a waitress who enters into a relationship with high society drop Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces<\/strong> was a result of Nicholson enjoying working with her the year before in Easy Rider<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Other notable roles from the height of her career include the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby<\/strong>, The Day of the Locust<\/strong> in 1975 and two Robert Altman films Nashville<\/strong> and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean<\/strong>. More populist films she worked on at the time include Airport 1975<\/strong> and Alfred Hitchcock’s final film, Family Plot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Following her appearance in the 1975 ABC made-for-TV movie Trilogy Of Terror<\/em> in which she played several parts, Black soon found herself in a number of genre films.<\/p>\n

Below is a two-part interview the actress did with Charlie Rose back in 1986.<\/p>\n