Bonnie Bedelia Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
American nationality
Birth March 25, 1948 (New York, New York, United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Born to a journalist mother and a writer father, Bonnie Bedelia has two brothers and a sister. She had a difficult childhood marked by poverty and then the death of her parents when she was a teenager. She practices classical dance diligently, which allows her to appear in several performances by the New York City Ballet as well as on Broadway. In 1958, at age 10, she appeared in the series Playhouse 90.

She was also the aunt of Macaulay ( Mom, I Missed the Plane ), Kieran ( Succession ) and Rory Culkin ( Scream 4 ).

It was initially on the side of series that Bonnie Bedelia began her career, as evidenced, among other things, by her participation in thirteen episodes of the soap Love of Life in 1965. In 1969, she starred in her first film, The Paratroopers arrive , then appears more or less furtively in We finish the horses well , Lune de miel aux toties and The Big Fix . She is also seen in the miniseries The Vampires of Salem by Tobe Hooper .

During the 1980s, alongside her numerous roles in TV films, we can see her in Foot on the Floor (where she plays the heroine Shirley Muldowney, the first woman to drive a dragster) and La Tête Dans Les Nuages . But it was above all her performance in Crystal Trap , a cult action film which generated 139 million in worldwide revenue, which made her known to the general public. She plays Bruce Willis ‘ wife , Holly McClane.

After reprising this character in 58 Minutes to Live in 1990, the New York native found the role of her career in the legal thriller Presumed Innocent carried by Harrison Ford . She plays the wife of the latter, wrongly accused of murder. A striking role, especially since this seemingly innocent character is in fact guilty. In 1993, she tasted the horror register with Le Bazaar de l’épouvante alongside Max von Sydow .

If, in the 1990s, she played solid supporting roles in the films Chérie, vote for me , Judicial Consent , Bad Manners and Gloria , Bonnie Bedelia favored even more, and from the end of the decade, television films and series . Thus, she slips into the skin of the main character of Elite Division(2001 – 2005), centered on a San Francisco squad composed of all-female police officers.

From 2010 to 2015, the actress played grandmother Braverman in the series Parenthood , a loving woman who is very gentle with her grandchildren. She also plays the mother of the First Lady in the political series Designated Survivor , with Kiefer Sutherland . She also tends to specialize in Christmas TV films since she is in the casting of Une coach pour Noël (2017), Un Noël de roman (id.) and The Noel Diary (2021).