Jan Sterling

After a long bout with diabetes, a broken hip, and a number of strokes, Jan Sterling died on March 26, 2004, in Los Angeles, California, a few days before her 84th birthday. True is known for playing characters with a dark side, such as the one she played in Embrace of the Vampire, the witch in The Craft, and Julianne in New Best Friend. Inactive for nearly two decades, she made an appearance at the Cinecon Film Festival in Los Angeles in the fall of 2001. True has also appeared in Nowhere, Groove, and New Best Friend. They never married but stayed together until his death in 1993. True played the girlfriend of a pothead who hid his habit from her in Half Baked. In the 70s she entered into a strong personal relationship with actor Sam Wanamaker. True and Campbell became best friends during the filming, a friendship they maintain.

Herbert Hoover in the TV miniseries Backstairs at the White House. True's next movie was The Craft, where she played a member of a gothic teenage coven along with Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell and Fairuza Balk. She retired from films in favor of the stage in 1969 and returned before the cameras in 1976 to portray Mrs. After CB4, she was cast alongside Alyssa Milano for the movie Embrace of the Vampire. Married and divorced to actor John Merivale (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0580881/) in the 40s, Sterling's career slipped down after the death of her second husband, actor Paul Douglas, in 1959. By 1993, she had moved to Los Angeles, and appeared opposite Chris Rock in his movie spoof CB4. During the following years, she appears regularly in movies like Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Kathy O, and The Female Animal. In 1991, True had an appearance on The Cosby Show beginning a string of TV jobs, including turns on Beverly Hills 90210, The Drew Carey Show, Once and Again, and HBO's Dream On.

Also the same year, she travelled to England to play the role of Julia in the first film version of George Orwell's 1984, despite being several months pregnant at the time. True is the step-daughter of actress Verona Barnes, and developed a love for acting as a child, watching her step-mother participate in different plays. In 1954 Sterling was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for her great performance in The High and the Mighty. Rachel True (born November 15, 1966) is an African-American actress from New York. Shuttling between films and television, she showed up in nearly all the major live anthologies of the 1950s, stood out in such 'bad girl' film roles in Caged (1950), The Big Carnival [aka 'Ace in the Hole'] (1951), Flesh and Fury (1952), The Human Jungle (1954), and Female on the Beach (1955), while making a more sympathetic impression in Sky Full of Moon (1952). The Cosby Show. In 1948 she broke into films supporting the Academy Award winner Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda, in a key, emotional role. Cooper.

Then, the actrees Ruth Gordon insisted she change her stage name and the two hit upon 'Jan Sterling'. Hangin' with Mr. Seldom cast in passive roles, Sterling was at her best in parts calling for hard-bitten, sometimes hard-boiled determination. Renegade. As a teenager she returned to Manhattan, and billed as Jane Sterling, made her first Broadway appearance in Bachelor Born and went on to appear in such major stage offerings as Panama Hattie, Over 21 and Present Laughter. In 1947, she made her movies debut in Tycoon, now billed as Jane Darian. Beverly Hills, 90210. She was schooled by private tutors in London and Paris, and was enrolled in Fay Compton's dramatic school in London. Thea.