Die US-amerikanische Schauspielerin Karen Black ist gestorben

Die 1939 in Park Ridge, Illinois, geborene US-amerikanische Schauspielerin, Autorin, Sängerin, Komponistin und Produzentin Karen Black (Bild) ist am 8. August 2013 in Santa Monica, Kalifornien, gestorben.

Foto: cropped by SuperManu, Original uploader was Stevendollinger at en.wikipedia – Datei: http://en.wikipedia.org – Lizenz: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Ende der sechziger Jahre erfand sich Hollywood neu – und Karen Black mit ihrem irre schönen Blick war mittendrin im grossen Umbruch. Sie spielte in «Easy Rider» und «Nashville», hatte aber nie den ganz grossen Erfolg.

Christian Buss

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/easy-rider-karen-black-ist-tot-a-915640.html

Karen Black was never afraid of presenting herself in the most unflattering light if it was right for the role. With her messy hair, ski-jump nose, pouting lips and too-close-together eyes, she had a dippy «trailer trash» sex appeal that made her the first port of call for directors casting brassy but vulnerable women on the edge. «Black brings to all her roles a freewheeling combination of raunch and winsomeness,» Time magazine observed in 1975. «Sometimes she is kittenish. At other times she has an overripe quality that makes her look like the kind of woman who gets her name tattooed on sailors.»

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10234291/Karen-Black.html

Karen Black, an actress whose roles in several signature films of the late 1960s and ’70s included a prostitute who shared an LSD trip with the bikers played by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in «Easy Rider» and a waitress unhappily devoted to the alienated musician played by Jack Nicholson in «Five Easy Pieces,» died on Thursday in Los Angeles.