Eileen Brennan is the actress who voiced the smoke that had worked in the business for over 20 years before it got the attention of the widest her as captain of the hard garrisons in both versions. film and television. "Private Benjamin" died on Sunday at her home in Burbank, Calif. She was 80.
Kim Vasilakis, her manager confirmed the death on Tuesday, said that the cause was bladder cancer.
Ms. Brennan has had a solid career in the New York stage and in films such as "Last Picture Show" and "unconscious" when she was cast for the film. "Private Benjamin" 1980 box office hit starring Goldie Hawn, in the title role.
Ms. Brennan played Capt. Doreen Lewis, commander of the slow burn feel privileged young women who joined the military and found that she was not a princess of anyone anymore. Performance that Ms. Brennan nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor. She reprized the role in 1981 in the CBS sitcom based on the film by Lorna Patterson in the role of Goldie Hawn. Performance of the water, Ms. Brennan won the Emmy for best supporting actor in a comedy or musical variety series.
But she was forced to resign. "Private Benjamin" when she was hit by a car and were injured in Venice, California by her outfits, died in 1983.
While recovering Ms. Brennan became addicted to pain medication and treatment. She later developed breast cancer.
In 1985 she returned to television in a new sitcom "Off the rack" with Edward Asner, but show only lasted six episodes. Subsequently, she made guest appearances on other shows, but she never recaptured the attention she had known in the past - the toast of Broadway in "Little Mary Sunshine" in 1970 as a film actor and comedian had just been honored. Before her accident.
Verla Eileen Regina Brennen was born on September 3, 1932 and grew up in Los Angeles, the daughter of a newspaper reporter who has worked in sales and a former actor. In later life associated with dependence on alcohol, she talks about her alcoholism in her family when she was a child.
After attending Georgetown University, she studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York in the summer stock and worked as a singing waitress.
Kim Vasilakis, her manager confirmed the death on Tuesday, said that the cause was bladder cancer.
Ms. Brennan has had a solid career in the New York stage and in films such as "Last Picture Show" and "unconscious" when she was cast for the film. "Private Benjamin" 1980 box office hit starring Goldie Hawn, in the title role.
Ms. Brennan played Capt. Doreen Lewis, commander of the slow burn feel privileged young women who joined the military and found that she was not a princess of anyone anymore. Performance that Ms. Brennan nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor. She reprized the role in 1981 in the CBS sitcom based on the film by Lorna Patterson in the role of Goldie Hawn. Performance of the water, Ms. Brennan won the Emmy for best supporting actor in a comedy or musical variety series.But she was forced to resign. "Private Benjamin" when she was hit by a car and were injured in Venice, California by her outfits, died in 1983.
While recovering Ms. Brennan became addicted to pain medication and treatment. She later developed breast cancer.
In 1985 she returned to television in a new sitcom "Off the rack" with Edward Asner, but show only lasted six episodes. Subsequently, she made guest appearances on other shows, but she never recaptured the attention she had known in the past - the toast of Broadway in "Little Mary Sunshine" in 1970 as a film actor and comedian had just been honored. Before her accident.
Verla Eileen Regina Brennen was born on September 3, 1932 and grew up in Los Angeles, the daughter of a newspaper reporter who has worked in sales and a former actor. In later life associated with dependence on alcohol, she talks about her alcoholism in her family when she was a child.
After attending Georgetown University, she studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York in the summer stock and worked as a singing waitress.
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