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Veronica Cartwright

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Biography

Veronica Cartwright (born April 20, 1949) is a British-born American actress. She is known for appearing in science fiction and horror films, and has earned numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Her younger sister is actress Angela Cartwright. As a child actress, Cartwright appeared in supporting roles in The Children's Hour and The Birds, the latter of which was her first commercial success. She made her transition into mainstream, mature roles with 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The following year, she played Lambert in the science-fiction horror film Alien, which earned her recognition and a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. She additionally appeared in the films The Right Stuff and The Witches of Eastwick which earned her praise, and in the 1990s, received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, one of which was for her role on ER and two of which were for her role in The X-Files. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Alien

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Right Stuff

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Scary Movie 2

As Mother

The Witches of Eastwick

As Felicia Alden

The Birds

As Cathy Brenner

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

As Nancy Bellicec

Flight of the Navigator

As Helen Freeman

Call of the Wild

As Sheriff Taylor

Chains

KinoChain journeys

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

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The Reckless Edge - Talent as a Double-Edged Sword

Forty years after Top Gun roared into cinemas, Maverick's need for speed still feels as exhilarating as ever. But Pete Mitchell is part of a much bigger movie t...

7 films

When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos

From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...

8 films

The Art of Listening

From the whisper of a surveillance tape to the roar of a wartime beach, these eight films prove that sound is not just heard, it is felt. A chain of masterpiece...

7 films

From External Beast to Internal Trauma

Here is a five-film narrative chain that traces how the monster evolved from an exotic physical threat into a psychological mirror of society.

5 films

20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own

There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...

20 films

The DVDs That Changed Everything

In the late 1990s, home video underwent a seismic shift driven by a double revolution: an unprecedented jump in technical quality, and an unprecedented access t...

10 films

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