Melinda Dillon

Melinda Ruth Dillon was an American actress. She received a 1963 Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in the original production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Jillian Guiler in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Teresa Perrone in Absence of Malice (1981). She is well known for her role as Mother Parker in the holiday classic A Christmas Story (1983). Her other film roles include Bound for Glory (1976), Slap Shot (1977), F.I.S.T. (1978), The Muppet Movie (1979), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Captain America (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, How to Make an American Quilt, Magnolia (1999), for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Reign Over Me (2007).

13 October 1939

Born on the same birth date (13 October 1939): Larry Bowie (guard)

Born on the same birth day (13 October): Chris Farlowe • Claude of France • Eric Joyce • Faas Wilkes • John Regis (athlete) • John Snow (cricketer) • Lacy J. Dalton • Lee Konitz • Marie Osmond • Matt Hughes (fighter) • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan • Paul Simon • Pharoah Sanders • Summer Sanders • Thomas Fitzalan, 5th Earl of Arundel • Tiffany Trump • Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill • Trevor Hoffman

Born in the same month (October 1939): Ali Farka Touré • Dave Simmonds • Eddie Holland • Geoffrey Whitehead • George Archer • Inez and Charlie Foxx • Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers • John Hopcroft • Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya • Lynne Stewart • Maria Bueno • Nicholas Grimshaw • Paul Hogan • Ralph Lauren • Rocky Thompson (golfer) • Tony Roberts (actor)