She was a cheerleader and homecoming queen at her small-town Texas high school in 1968, and that determination to prove her worth followed her to Hollywood.
Her first breakthrough role was in a classic ’70s ‘lovers on the run’ crime–drama co-starring Martin Sheen.
She followed it up with a deeply gripping and grisly role in a film based on a Stephen King horror novel, a role that catapulted her to stardom when it was released later that decade.
This actress then accomplished what so many others couldn’t: she broke the typecasting trap and pivoted to vulnerable, emotionally complex parts in biographical dramas, family
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