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| Excellent stagetrained actress who, after several false starts, has finally gained notice for her film work. She left Canada at 18 to study at London's Central School of Speech and Drama and gradually won acclaim for a variety of stage and television roles. She made her film debut in The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) and appeared in Dracula (1979, as Lucy), Mr. Patman (1980), and Eye of the Needle (1981), in which she was excellent as a lonely woman who becomes romantically involved with a Nazi spy. Nelligan moved to L.A. and starred in 1983's Without a Trace but had better luck on Broadway (earning Tony nominations for "Plenty," "A Moon for the Misbegotten," "Serious Money," and "Spoils of War") and appeared only sporadically in features, most notably Eleni (1985). There had been a certain coldness to her screen characters, but in 1991 she dazzled moviegoers and critics alike with an unexpected performance blending comic knowhow and a poignant believability as a sexually active, tough-talking New York waitress in Frankie and Johnny it was followed months later by a bravura turn as Nick Nolte's iron-willed mother in The Prince of Tides which earned her an Oscar nomination. She has since appeared in a number of TV movies as well as Fatal Instinct (1993) and Wolf (1994). |
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