Jill Clayburgh, 66, a adept movie, date and television aerialist who declared herself as shy but was accepted for assuming the strengths as able-bodied as the vulnerabilities of avant-garde women in a way that won her a ample and loyal following, died Friday at her home in Lakeville, Conn.
Her husband, author David Rabe, told the Associated Press that she had suffered for 21 years from abiding lymphocytic leukemia.
Adept at demonstrating both intelligence and affecting texture, she was admired as one of the aboriginal blur abstracts to accompany abyss and subtlety to roles that reflected the sensibilities and attitudes of the growing women's movement.
A career highlight was her role as a afar woman who begins to chase out her options and opportunities in "An Unmarried Woman." That 1978 cine drew one of her two Academy Award nominations.
The added Oscar choice came for "Starting Over" (1979), in which she suffered affecting wounds consistent from the analytic uncertainties afflictive the appearance played by Burt Reynolds.
Other acclaimed films included "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can," in which a woman's success bred ammunition dependence, and "It's My Turn," in which she was remembered for bulging both bookish accuracy and an agitated emptiness.
Among abundant added films, Clayburgh appeared in "Semi-Tough" as the babe of a pro football aggregation owner, and in "Silver Streak" and "Portnoy's Complaint." She seemed believable as a Supreme Court Justice in "First Monday in October."
Recognizable characteristics of her acting included the affiliation of able animosity with banal gestures, as back she would admittance her aperture to anatomy a tentative, all-a-quiver smile aloof afore she exploded with emotion.
Over four decades of assuming ball and drama, she fabricated abounding television appearances, affair the demands of soap opera skillfully, and acceptable Emmy nominations for genitalia that appropriate greater range. She appeared in "The Practice" and "Ally McBeal."
She had a matriarchal role in "Dirty Sexy Money," which ran on television through aftermost year. Reportedly she had been alive on a yet-to-be appear movie.
On Broadway, she played in Noel Coward's "Design for Living," and in two musicals that won Tony Awards, "Pippin" and "The Rothschilds."
She was built-in April 30, 1944, the babe of affluent New Yorkers, and abounding a clandestine academy in Manhattan afore activity to Sarah Lawrence College.
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