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Melinda Ruth Dillon (October 13, 1939, Hope, Arkansas, U.S. – January 9, 2023, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (aged 83)) 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 (both 1995), Magnolia (1999), for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Reign Over Me (2007).

Dillon was born as Melinda Ruth Clardy on October 13, 1939, in Hope, Arkansas, but raised in Cullman, Alabama. After spending four years in Germany, Dillon attended Hyde Park High School and the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) in Chicago.

Though best known for her supporting performances in films, Dillon began as an improvisational comedian and stage actress.


Dillon was perhaps best known for her role as the mother of Ralphie and Randy in Bob Clark's 1983 movie A Christmas Story. The film was based on a series of short stories and novels written by Jean Shepherd about young Ralphie Parker (played by Peter Billingsley) and his quest for a Red Ryder BB gun from Santa Claus. She was replaced by Julie Hagerty in the 2022 direct sequel A Christmas Story Christmas due to her being in poor health at the time of the film's production and ultimately died less than two months after the film was released.

Dillon was married to actor Richard Libertini and together they had a son. They divorced in 1978.
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Submitted by : Lo55o (12474)
on : 21/06/2023