Actress Jill Clayburgh Dies

Two-time Oscar nominee Jill Clayburgh died Friday of complications from chronic leukemia, The New York Times reports. Clayburgh was nominated twice for an Oscar. Once for An Unmarried Woman and again for Starting Over.

Jill Clayburgh (April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010) was an American actress. Clayburgh was born in New York City, the daughter of Julia Louise (née Dorr), a theatrical production secretary for David Merrick, and Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh, a manufacturing executive.

Her paternal grandmother was concert and opera singer Alma Lachenbruch Clayburgh. Jill Clayburgh's father's family was Jewish and upper class; she was raised in a "fashionable" neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where she attended the prestigious Brearley School.[6] She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she decided that she wanted to be an actress.

Clayburgh married screenwriter and playwright David Rabe in 1979. They had one son, Michael Rabe and one daughter, actress Lily Rabe.