Linda Lovelace

On April 23, 2002 she was taken off life support and died in Denver, Colorado. McDormand's credits include:. On April 3, 2002, she sustained severe injuries in a car accident in which her sport utility vehicle rolled over. Frances McDormand is an associate member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group. Boreman testified before congressional committees investigating pornography and also gave lectures on college campuses and elsewhere, always decrying what she described as callous and exploitative practices of the pornography industry. She played Connie Chapman on Hill Street Blues. According to Boreman's 1980 autobiography Ordeal, the couple's relationship was plagued by violence, rape, prostitution and, of course, pornography. For Wonder Boys in 2001 she won Best Supporting Actress from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Florida Film Critics Circle, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Traynor went on to marry and guide the career of Marilyn Chambers, another major porn star. Also for Almost Famous she won the Best Supporting Actress nod from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics Association, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, San Diego Film Critics Society, Southeastern Film Critics Association, and the Florida Film Critics Circle. For many years after the film debuted, Boreman claimed that her husband, whom she divorced in 1973, had forced her into pornography at gunpoint and that in Deep Throat itself bruises from his beatings can be seen on her legs. In 1988 she was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mississippi Burning; In 1996 she won the award for Best Actress for her police chief performance in Fargo; and in 2000 she was nominated again for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal of a concerned mother in Almost Famous. However, several 8 mm "fetish" loops that still circulate confirm the assertions. McDormand has been nominated for Academy Awards three times. Over the years she was sometimes accused of having made zoophilia pornography before Deep Throat, a charge that she always denied. In 1992, McDormand played Stella Kowalski in a stage production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.

Boreman maintained that she herself was not paid for her work in Deep Throat and that her husband, Chuck Traynor, received only $1,250 (1972 US dollars) for it even though the film would eventually gross an estimated $600 million. In 1984 she married director Joel Coen after performing in the Coen Brother movie, Blood Simple, and in 1998 the couple adopted a son from Paraguay, Pedro McDormand Coen. After becoming famous she starred in several soft core movies, which were flops. While attending Yale, McDormand roomed with fellow actress and student Holly Hunter. The daughter of a policeman, Boreman made several hard core short features before making Deep Throat, perhaps the most financially successful porn movie ever. from the Yale University School of Drama. She later became an advocate against pornography and insisted on using the name Boreman. In 1982 she earned an M.F.A.

Linda Boreman (January 10, 1949 - April 23, 2002) became famous as a pornographic actress under the stage name Linda Lovelace in the 1972 film Deep Throat. in Theater in 1979. She attended Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia, where she earned her B.A. She spent much of her youth in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb of Monessen, where she graduated from high school. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and was the youngest of three children adopted by Canadian parents Vernon (a Disciple of Christ minister) and Noreen McDormand.

Frances McDormand (born June 23, 1957) is a character actress with TV, stage, and screen credits. City by the Sea (2002). Laurel Canyon (2002). The Man Who Wasn't There (2001).

Wonder Boys (2000). Almost Famous (2000). Primal Fear (1997). Lone Star (1996).

Fargo (1996). Miller's Crossing (1990). Mississippi Burning (1988). Raising Arizona (1987).

Blood Simple (1984).