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Melinda Dillon

Highest Rated:
95% Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Lowest Rated:
11% Captain America (1992)
Birthday:
Oct 13, 1939
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Though best known for her intense, sensitive dramatic portrayals, Melinda Dillon first attracted attention as an improvisational comedienne. Her Broadway break came about when she played the hypertense Honey in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962). Making her film debut playing a…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 11% - 95%
Number of Movies: 36
Box Office Since 2001: $19.8M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2007 63% Reign Over Me
  • Ginger Timpleman
$19.7M
2006 Debating Robert Lee
  • Mrs. Lee
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2005 55% Adam & Steve
  • Dottie
$0.2M
2004 86% Absence Of Malice
  • Teresa
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2003 A Painted House
  • Gran Chandler
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2001 Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey
  • Actor
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2001 Cowboy Up (Ring of Fire)
  • Actor
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1999 83% Magnolia
  • Rose Gator
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1996 50% Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
  • Sister Aloysius
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1995 42% To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
  • Merna
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1995 55% How to Make an American Quilt
  • Mrs. Darling Sophia's mother
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1994 Sioux City
  • Leah Goldman
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1994 State of Emergency
  • Betty Anderson
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1993 63% Demolition Man
  • Actor
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1992 11% Captain America
  • Mrs. Rogers
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1991 73% The Prince of Tides
  • Savannah Wingo
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1989 Nightbreaker
  • Paula Brown
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1989 80% Staying Together
  • Eileen McDermott
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1989 Spontaneous Combustion
  • Nina
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1988 Shattered Innocence
  • Actor
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1987 44% Harry and the Hendersons
  • Nancy Henderson
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1987 Shattered Spirits
  • Actor
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1984 80% Songwriter
  • Honey Carder
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1984 Juggler of Notre Dame
  • Actor
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1983 Right of Way
  • Ruda Dwyer
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1983 89% A Christmas Story
  • Mother
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1981 Fallen Angel
  • Sherry Phillips
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1980 Shadow Box
  • Actor
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1980 83% Slap Shot
  • Suzanne Hanrahan
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1980 Marriage is Alive and Well
  • Actor
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1979 Captain America
  • Actor
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1979 F.I.S.T.
  • Anna Zerinkas
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1979 Transplant
  • Actor
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1977 95% Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Jillian Guiler
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1976 88% Bound for Glory
  • Mary Guthrie
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1969 The April Fools
  • Leslie Hopkins
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Quotes from Melinda Dillon's Characters

    1. Mother: [at Ralphie in the pink bunny suit] Ohhh isn't that CUTE?!!
    2. The Old Man: He looks like a deranged Easter bunny. It's a pink nightmare. Are you happy wearing that, Ralph?
    From A Christmas Story. Submitted by T R (55 days ago)
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