Sissy Spacek

She was also nominated for a Grammy Award for her singing on that film's soundtrack album. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Blvd. She eventually won the Oscar in 1980 for Coal Miner's Daughter. Howard Lee. Her breakout role was in Carrie, in 1976, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She had two daughters by Oleg Cassini -- Daria, who was born mentally handicapped, and Christina -- and miscarried one child while married to W. Spacek is also an ardent crusader for women's lib. His previous wife had been the film star Hedy Lamarr.

The first role that brought her notice was the 1973 film Badlands, where she met art director Jack Fisk, whom she would later marry. Howard Lee, whom she married in 1963. Her first credited role was in the 1972 movie Prime Cut, in which she played a young woman sold into white slavery. She is interred in the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, next to her second husband, oilman W. Her cousin, Rip Torn, was already in the entertainment business, and through him, she was able to enroll in Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio and then the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. Gene Tierney died from emphysema in Houston, Texas at age 70. Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an Academy Award winning American actress and singer. Kennnedy and Prince Aly Khan -- had taken their toll. She returned to the screen in 1963 in Advise and Consent.

Death Game (art director). A failed marriage to fashion designer Oleg Cassini, the premature birth of a partially blind and mentally retarded daughter (Tierney had contracted German measles from one of her fans while pregnant), and several failed love affairs -- the men included John F. Phantom of the Paradise (set dresser). By 1955, Tierney was in a hospital, being treated for depression. Trash. Muir (1947). Prime Cut. Tierney was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the following year's Leave Her to Heaven, and later starred in Dragonwyck, The Razor's Edge (both 1946), and The Ghost and Mrs.