Laura San Giacomo

She is the cousin of Torry Castellano, a member of the rock group The Donnas. She was also nominated for a Grammy Award for her singing on that film's soundtrack album. San Giacomo has been married twice; to actor Cameron Dye (1990-1998), with whom she has a son, Mason (born 1996), and to actor Matt Adler (since 2000). She eventually won the Oscar in 1980 for Coal Miner's Daughter. She was the lead character in the sitcom Just Shoot Me (1997-2003) and did voice work for the animated series Gargoyles. Her breakout role was in Carrie, in 1976, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She has appeared in the films Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), Pretty Woman (1990), Quigley Down Under (1990), and Nina Takes a Lover (1994), among others. Spacek is also an ardent crusader for women's lib.

San Giacomo was born in New Jersey and attended the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. The first role that brought her notice was the 1973 film Badlands, where she met art director Jack Fisk, whom she would later marry. Laura San Giacomo (born November 14, 1962) is an American actress. Her first credited role was in the 1972 movie Prime Cut, in which she played a young woman sold into white slavery. IMDB entry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000624/). 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. Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an Academy Award winning American actress and singer.

Death Game (art director). Phantom of the Paradise (set dresser). Trash. Prime Cut.

The Girls of Huntington House. Ginger in the Morning. Badlands. The Migrants.

Katherine. Carrie. 3 Women. Welcome to L.A..

Verna, USO Girl. Coal Miner's Daughter. Heart Beat. Raggedy Man.

Missing. The Man with Two Brains. The River. Marie.

Violets Are Blue. 'night, Mother. Crimes of the Heart. The Long Walk Home.

Hard Promises. JFK. A Private Matter. A Place for Annie.

Trading Mom. The Good Old Boys. The Grass Harp. Streets of Laredo.

Beyond the Call. If These Walls Could Talk. Affliction. Blast from the Past.

The Rage, Carrie 2. The Straight Story. Songs in Ordinary Time. In the Bedroom.

Midwives. Last Call. Tuck Everlasting. 1977 Nominated Carrie.

1981 Won Coal Miner's Daughter. 1983 Nominated Missing. 1985 Nominated The River. 1987 Nominated Crimes of the Heart.

2002 Nominated In the Bedroom.