She also worked on Broadway, where she debuted supporting Patty Duke in 1962, in Isle of Children, and won a Theatre World Award for playing the lead of in My Sweet Charlie, in 1966. From 1961 to 1967, Bedelia was a regular on the CBS soap opera Love of Life, portraying Sandy Porter. Her only dancing role onscreen was that of Clara in the Playhouse 90 television production of the George Balanchine Nutcracker (1958). Career īefore becoming an actress, Bedelia studied ballet and appeared in a few productions with the New York City Ballet, including The Nutcracker. She received her acting training at HB Studio.
īedelia studied dance in her youth, at School of American Ballet. She is the aunt of actors Macaulay, Kieran, and Rory Culkin. She has two brothers, one of whom is actor Kit Culkin, and a sister, Candice Culkin. Her mother died when she was 14 and her father, "who had always had ulcers", died shortly afterward. She was born in a difficult financial period when her father's firm went bankrupt, and they lived in "a cold-water tenement flat". From 2001 to 2004, Bedelia played the lead role in the Lifetime television drama series, The Division, and later starred as family matriarch Camille Braverman in the NBC drama series, Parenthood (2010–2015).Bedelia was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City, the daughter of Marian Ethel (née Wagner), a writer and editor, and Philip Harley Culkin, who was in public relations and 50 years old at the time. Bedelia also had many other leading and supporting roles, and has worked regularly on television.įor her television work, Bedelia received two Emmy Awards nominations. She is best known for her role as Holly Gennero McClane in the action films Die Hard (1988) and Die Hard 2 (1990), as well as the movies They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Lovers and Other Strangers (1970), Presumed Innocent (1990), and Needful Things (1993). She began her career in theatre and during 1960s starred in the CBS daytime soap opera, Love of Life (1961–67), before making her movie debut in The Gypsy Moths (1969).īedelia was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in 1983 film Heart Like a Wheel, and for an Independent Spirit Award for The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988). Bonnie Bedelia Culkin (born March 25, 1948) is an American actress.
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