Martha Plimpton

She was also nominated for a 2002 Emmy Award for best guest actress in a drama series. Roberti died from a heart attack while bending to tie her shoelace. As of 2002 she continues to perform in films while pursing stage acting with The Steppenwolf Theater Company (most notably in Hedda Gabler). She began to work less frequently although two days before her death she performed a radio show with Al Jolson. She was the lead in a short-run television show on HBO called The Defenders. Roberti replaced Thelma Todd in a couple of films after the death of Todd, but her health was failing due to heart disease. In the 1990s she developed a reputation for being a very professional actress, taking many smaller roles in mainstream films like Beautiful Girls and in films like 200 Cigarettes and John Waters' Pecker. In Roberta (1935), Ginger Rogers played the role that Roberti had originated on Broadway, with reviewers commenting that Rogers' performance was a completely accurate imitation of Roberti's idiosyncratic speech and mannerisms.

In the film The Mosquito Coast she met boyfriend River Phoenix, whom she later left because of his drug use. She found success as a comedienne and was also popular as a singer on radio. After her part in the cult classic The Goonies she built up a reputation for being able to play rebellious tomboys, appearing in such films as Shy People, Silence Like Glass and Stars and Bars. Her sexy but playful characterisations, along the unusual accent she had acquired during her years in Europe and Asia, made her popular with audiences. She began her career in the 1980s in the film The River Rat. She moved to Hollywood and during the 1930s played in a string of films. Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) was born from Hollywood blood with parents Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. She made her Broadway debut in You Said It in 1931, and with its success became an overnight sensation.

They moved to the United States in the late 1920s where Roberti began singing in nightclubs. As the family toured Europe and Asia, Roberti's mother left her husband, settling in Shanghai, China where the younger Roberti earned money singing. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Roberti was the daughter of a clown and as a child performed in the circus as a trapeze artist, and as a singer on vaudeville. Lyda Roberti (May 20, 1906 - March 12, 1938) was a film actress.