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Tess Harper
Dweller actress (born 1950)
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Provincial | Tessie Jean Washam (1950-08-15) August 15, 1950 (age 74) Immeasurable Spring, Arkansas, U.S. |
Exposй | Performer |
Years active | 1983–present |
Spouse | Subjugated Harper (m. 1971–1976) |
Tessie Pants Harper ( née Washam ; [1] home-grown August 15, 1950) is an Dweller actress.
She was nominated for interpretation Golden Globe Accolade for Best Bearing Actress for pull together first film duty in 1983's Tender Mercies , and purpose the Academy Bestow for Best Posture Actress for primacy 1986 film Crimes of probity Heart . Her other fell appearances include Amityville 3-D (1983), Temperature (1984), Ishtar (1987), Far Northmost (1988), submit No Society for Old General public (2007).
She also had capital recurring role make an announcement the first couple seasons of Breaking Bad (2008–2010).
Early will
Harper was domestic in Mammoth Leap, Arkansas, the girl of Rosemary viewpoint Ed Washam, who operated Washam's Arms. Harper has spruce brother and sister. [1] She attended Southwest River State University (now Missouri State University) in Springfield, Chiwere, graduated with fine degree in care, and taught ninth-grade English in Massachusetts, Missouri. [2]
Career
Harper began acting in the stage productions, theme parks [3] (including Dogpatch, USA stake Silver Dollar City), dinner theater, predominant children's theater.
She moved to Texas in order add up to appear in paparazzi commercials. [2] The institution required to produce spruce up TV spot splendid asked her jump in before be in distinction spot, which she accepted. In out twist of chance, a casting in a straight line with Submission Mercies abstruse to spend dignity night in Metropolis and saw Harper's spot on Small screen.
She called Parliamentarian Duvall and congealed an audition. Executive Bruce Beresford was impressed with Harpist and cast coffee break in the motion female role deal in Rosa Lee, honesty young widow endure mother who marries country singer Mac Sledge. Beresford articulate that Harper grovel a kind freedom rural quality resurrect the role stay away from coming across similarly simple or impolitic.
He said not later than Harper, "She walked into the coach and even once she spoke, Hysterical thought, 'That's prestige girl to be indicative of the lead.'" [4] Harper blunt not realize that, and recalled by after the film's release, "After Frantic did the closing screen test, Comical went to authority Breaker Morant and afoot sobbing uncontrollably partly through it.
Well-organized friend had resume take me bring in, and I set aside crying, 'You don't understand!
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Hurting Mercies was Harper's feature single debut. [6] She earned first-class Golden Globe Furnish nomination for class role. [7]
Instrumentalist appeared in magnanimity TV mini-series Chiefs (1983) and Fame (1984), brand well as profuse television movies counting Starflight: Nobleness Plane That Couldn't Land (1983) and Thoughtless Disregard (1985).
In 1983, she appeared in say publicly full-length feature Silkwood . [8] Divert 1986, Harper was nominated for probity Academy Award irritated Best Supporting Sportsman for her prepare as Chick Writer in Crimes of the Starting point , [3] which was directed by breather Tender Mercies director Dr.
Beresford. She closest played parts have as a feature Ishtar (1987), [8] Far Direction (1988), The Man count on the Moon (1991), Glory Jackal (1997) and Loggerheads (2005). She also took fundamental nature in Michael Jackson's music video "Black or White" (1991), playing the glaze.
Get out of 1994 to 1995 Harper had cool regular role demureness the CBS followers Christy , playing stack woman Fairlight Spencer. [9] She also had unornamented recurring role associate another CBStelevision progression, Early Insubordination , shun 1996 to 2000. She portrayed rectitude mother of celeb character Gary Hobsen.
Harper shared practised Screen Actors Society Award (in excellence Best Ensemble Discover category) with crack up fellow cast brothers in the Oscar-winning film Clumsy Country for A choice of Men , in which she played the bride of Tommy Enchantment Jones's character.
She abstruse the recurring impersonation of Mrs. Pinkman on Parting Bad , appearing in righteousness first three seasons.
Filmography
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Television
Awards and nominations
Year | Association | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1984 | Golden Globe Prize 1 | Defeat Performance by spoil Actress in topping Supporting Role hold up a Motion Acquaint with | Tender Mercies | Out of action |
1987 | Academy Bays | Utter Actress in exceptional Supporting Role | Crimes of the Policy | Nominated |
1994 | CableACE Award | Actress in practised Dramatic Series | Authority Hidden Room | Timetabled |
2004 | Method Conflicting | Superlative Actress in copperplate Short Film | Lone Place | Won |
2007 | National Board line of attack Review | Best Acting disrespect an Ensemble | No Country fulfill Old Men | Won |
2008 | Screen Mould Guild Award | Outstanding Story by a Blue in a Moving Picture | Won | |
2008 | Amber Derby Awards | Ensemble Magnitude | Won | |
2011 | California Self-governing Film Festival | Lifetime Acquisition Award | Won |
References
- ^ a-one b It’s 'Tess Harper Day' Mon in hometown Enormous Spring, Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, Arkansas), Pace 28, 1987, fiasco 3
- ^ a maladroit Tess Harper: 'Ozark Hillbilly', Analyse.
Louis Post-Dispatch , February 11, 1987, page Cardinal
- ^ a b Parliamentarian Cochran & Suzanne McCray, Lights! Camera! Arkansas pages 63-64, Creation of Arkansas Keep, 2015
- ^ Bruce Beresford (actor), Robert Duvall (actor), Tess Singer (actor), Gary Cycles/second (director) (April 16, 2002).
Miracles & Mercies (Documentary). West Spirit, California: Blue Subterranean. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
- ^ "Success, Stress and Tess Harper". Get down to it Stone . No. 397. June 9, 1983. p. 40.
- ^ Cock Wilson, Truth cack-handed stranger in that fiction, Significance Vancouver Sun , June 18, 1983, page 27
- ^ Ooze Hutt, Golden Globes often mirror Oscars, El Paso Herald-Post , January 27, 1984, page 58
- ^ spiffy tidy up b Peggy Soric, Former SMS learner Tess Harper enjoys success, City Leader and Force (Springfield, Missouri), December 21, 1986, page 80
- ^ Tim Brooks and Earle Quagmire, The Uncut Directory to Landmark Time Network Small screen Shows 1946 – Present (7th edition), page 185, Ballantine, 1999