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09-04-2016, 03:29 AM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/09/03/september-3-happy-birthday-garrett-hedlund-and-eileen-brennan/
Eileen Brennan (1932-2013) is our second headliner in three days to be an alumni of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, although since she only spent a few months on the show she did not have the same impact as Lily Tomlin. Brennan spent much of the 1960s working on stage, and had her first big film role in 1971 in The Last Picture Show. She had steady film and TV work through the 1970s—a highlight was playing Tess Skeffington in Murder by Death—before getting the role she is most identified with in 1980:
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After Brennan was an Oscar nominee for playing Capt. Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin, she reprised the role for the CBS series adapted from the film, winning both an Emmy and a Golden Globe. Although her career was interrupted when she was hit by a car and had to recover not only from her injuries but from a painkiller addiction, she came back with a solid performance in the 1985 film Clue. Starting in the late eighties, she picked up a variety of good TV guest roles, winning Emmy nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress for her work on Newhart, thirtysomething, and Will & Grace.
Eileen Brennan (1932-2013) is our second headliner in three days to be an alumni of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, although since she only spent a few months on the show she did not have the same impact as Lily Tomlin. Brennan spent much of the 1960s working on stage, and had her first big film role in 1971 in The Last Picture Show. She had steady film and TV work through the 1970s—a highlight was playing Tess Skeffington in Murder by Death—before getting the role she is most identified with in 1980:
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After Brennan was an Oscar nominee for playing Capt. Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin, she reprised the role for the CBS series adapted from the film, winning both an Emmy and a Golden Globe. Although her career was interrupted when she was hit by a car and had to recover not only from her injuries but from a painkiller addiction, she came back with a solid performance in the 1985 film Clue. Starting in the late eighties, she picked up a variety of good TV guest roles, winning Emmy nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress for her work on Newhart, thirtysomething, and Will & Grace.