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June Squibb

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Biography

June Squibb (born November 6, 1929) began working in musical theatre at the St. Louis Muny and trained at the Cleveland Play House, and at the HB Studio. While at the Cleveland Play House, she performed in productions of Marseilles, The Play's the Thing, Goodbye, My Fancy, The Heiress, Detective Story, Antigone, Ladies in Retirement and Bloomer Girl. In 1958, she played Dulcie in The Boyfriend Off-Broadway. In 1959, she starred in an Off-Broadway revival of Lend an Ear with Elizabeth Allen. She made her Broadway debut in the original production of Gypsy starring Ethel Merman, taking over the role of stripper Electra in 1960. Squibb appeared in The Happy Time, which opened in 1968 and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical. In-between these periods, she did modelling work for romance novels and appeared in commercials. In 1995, she appeared in the play Sacrilege on Broadway, which starred Ellen Burstyn. Squibb played many roles in national tours, regional theatre, summer stock and off-Broadway. In 2012, she played Stella Gordon in Dividing the Estate at the Dallas Theater Center in which she received standout reviews. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Alexander Payne's film Nebraska (2013). In 2015, she was inducted into the Cleveland Play House Hall of Fame.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Would You Rather

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Inside Out 2

As Nostalgia (voice)

Far from Heaven

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Toy Story 4

As Margaret the Store Owner (voice)

Soul

As Gerel (voice)

Meet Joe Black

As Helen

Scent of a Woman

As Mrs. Hunsaker

Nebraska

As Kate Grant

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Trapped and Playing by Someone Else’s Rules

With the upcoming release of Jumanji: Open World, we trace the evolution of the survival game subgenre, following how the core premise of human beings forced to...

10 films

The Melodrama They Never Let Us Keep

Rachel Morrison's Love of Your Life arrives as a reminder: the woman's picture was never a lesser form. It was grief, desire and colour, and the Europeans knew...

8 films

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