Related
Elizabeth Kemp – actress and instructor at The Actor ’s Studio – make it away after a engagement with cancer on September 2 . She was 65 - years - honest-to-goodness .
Kemp was born November 5 , 1951 in Key West , Florida . After graduating from High School – where she win an honor for Creative Achievement – she moved to New York City to learn at both The Art Student ’s League and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts . She start her acting career doing field of operations , and was mentored by Elia Kazan . She was also a series veritable for four years on the soap operaLove of Life . News of Kemp ’s passing was reported byTHR .
It was in 1980 when Kemp made her characteristic film debut , in the repugnance movieHe Knows You ’re Alone . Kemp , who played the lead eccentric ’s best friend , was not the only actor to callHe know You ’re Aloneher debut film – it was also the first film for Tom Hanks .
She follow up with a five episode course on the telecasting seriesI Can Jump Puddlesand function in the moviesThe ClairvoyantandSticky Fingers . In 1990 she appear in the made - for - television movieChallengerwhere she played the real - life wife of cosmonaut Michael J. Smith , who go in the Challenger burst . She continued to guest champion on TV shows , includingThirtysomethingandL.A. Law . She won a GLAAD laurels for her role onL.A. Law , as a love pastime for C.J. Lamb , a bisexual character play by Amanda Donohoe . She played two unlike grapheme in two episode ofLaw & Orderand her most late film –A Crack in Everything– was film last year .
In 1975 , Kemp became a Lifetime Member of The Actor ’s Studio , one of the youthful people to ever do so . She also taught at The Actor ’s Studio Drama School at Pace University , even serve well as the section chair . One of her students was Bradley Cooper , who she continued to train throughout his life history . When hash out Kemp while being question onInside the worker ’s Studioin 2011 , the thespian got visibly choked up : " I was never able to unbend in my life before [ meeting ] her , " and he refered to being in her class as " The most sacred experience I ’ve ever had . "
She also served as acting autobus to Cooper’sA Star is Bornco - star Lady Gaga , who dedicated a song to Kemp during her Saturday concert in Boston . Harvey Keitel was also one of her pupils .
Kemp ’s legacy to the reality of flick and TV is not only in her own gift , but in what she teach to several others who will continue to entertain us for many years to come .
germ : THR
