What ever became of....? Actor and Actress who you don't see anymore.

Martha has worked as an actress her entire life. Many remember her performances in indie movies back in the 80' and 90's when she was in her teens and 20's.

She didn't so much as drop out of acting as make a lateral move into theater (her parents were in theater), where she achieved many award nominations.

Today, she works both in theater and TV. IMDB features only her movie and TV career.

 

Hence, the movie, Searching for Deborah Winger, Directed by Rosanna Arquette.

 

Joel Higgins

 

She worked for several years on Raising Hope, and her character, Virginia Chance, is absolutely terrific - as is her husband, Burt Chance, played perfectly by Garret Dillahunt. It's a really good show, to boot. You can catch it in syndication on the CW.

 

I like watching DVD sets of TV shows. I run a motel and we have a great satellite TV package for my guests, but I do not watch commercial TV at all. Do not even have a SAT box hooked up to the TV. I use the TV for Movies, YouTube videos and streaming album art.

But... Thank You! I will keep an eye out for Martha in Raising Hope.

Check out her earlier movies after Goonies. She made a lot of great independent movies, with a great variety of themes. Blockbuster was relocated in Fort Lauderdale in the 90's and became the head sponsor of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.

Gregory Von Hausch, the director of the festival, was fond of her movies and snagged premier's when ever he could, which turned out to be a lot.

One of my favorites, was a movie, named after the book, The Beans of Egypt Maine. It was released under the title Forbidden Choices.

Here is a photo of Martha with her pet bunny, I believe she was six years old at the time.



This is her mother Shelly. Photo with members of the Broadway cast of Hair, She played the character Chrissy.


Shelley, from Glen and Randa, 1971, In the Photo, Steve Curry, His Head and Hair was on the Hair Poster for the Broadway Show back in 1968.

Check out the high cheekbones.

Martha center, with her father, Keith Carradine, on left side of photo and her mother Shelley to the right of Martha.


Was a excellent actress, right out of the gate.

 

Peter Weller was in Star Trek: Into Darkness but as I understand it he mainly pays the bills by directing for TV these days. A friend of mine knows him in this capacity.

 

He was in Captain America: Civil War, the second highest-grossing film of 2016.

 

Yes I saw him in that but it wasn't much of a spot for such a great actor. You don't see him anymore in a headline role unfortunately.

 

I never even knew she was keith Carradine's daughter.

 

There's a double standard in Hollywood when it comes to female actors aging as naturally, and more beautifully than male actors.
They've been speaking out about that, so maybe things will change.

Martha Plimpton is a very good, engaging actor.
Glad you mentioned The Beans Of Maine.
I really liked that when I saw it on PBS.
I was walking down Amsterdam Ave and saw Martha sitting alone outdoors at a café.
I walked up to tell her how much I enjoyed Beans. She was gracious, but somewhat taken aback!
I think the mini series got some poor reviews. She's a timid soul.

Whatever happened to Linda Blair?

 

Martha's mother, Shelly was working in coffee shop in the village, when she was recruited for Hair by Jerome Ragni and James Rado. She was in the cast from its very beginning at its premier at Joseph Papp's N.Y Shakespeare festival public theater back in October of 1977. She played the part of Chrissy who performed the song Frank Mills.

After the show had moved to Broadway in 1968, she continued in the roll of Chrissy. Keith joined the cast in 1969 and they became an item.

Here is a better shot of all three together.



Martha, with her father, David Carradine


Her is Keith with a co-author of Hair, James Rado


My favorite movie of Keith's was Pretty Baby, which featured a young Brooke Shields


Carradine, played a photographer by the name of Bellocq, who was a real person.

In the TV series Kung-Fu, Keith played his brother's part as Kwai Chang Caine as a teeneger.



(Note: There were two other actors which played younger Kwai Chang Caine's)

 

Linda Blair has spent a great part of her life as a vegetarian and animal activist:

"In 1988 I was reading an article on pesticides, acid rain and how we farm animals and that’s what made me go vegetarian. And it’s certainly changed my life. I’ve never had a weight problem since. I don’t change weight. And if anyone knows how old I am, you know that there’s something to it. You just become much more aware of foods and the atrocities to animals, what we’re doing to the animals, the planet; the fact is that everything goes hand in hand. Environmentally, how we farm animals affects the environment, affects the riverbeds, affects the ocean, affects the air, and that’s what a lot of people don’t realize."



When I realized the extent of America's pet overpopulation problem and the many crisis's facing our animals, I founded the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation. LBWF has since been working nationwide to help humans and animals while educating the public on important animal welfare issues. While we have accomplished much since 2004, we still have a long way to go.

The Animals in America are in a crisis and they need your help now more than ever. These innocent victims daily battle issues such as pet overpopulation, dogfighting, puppy mills, cruelty, neglect and abandonment. LBWF & I are ready and willing to fight these battles but we can't do it alone. If you can't adopt you can still make a difference. LBWF is always in need of volunteers, monetary, or in-kind gifts in order for us to continue to help the animals. Please help us make a difference in the animal's lives here and across America. 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She has been very active in the rescue of Pit Bulls.

 

Linda Blair is a great, albeit rare example of a child star who grew up to be a very decent human being.

 

She had a role in That 70s Show after the American Pie movies.

 

That goes with his age. The guy's mid-60s and Hollywood doesn't make a lot of big movies that use 60-something actors as leads.

Hurt was never exactly a "big star" anyway - I think he was always more of a "critic's darling" than someone with actual box office appeal...

 

Altered States, Big Chill, Body Heat, Gorky Park and Kiss of the Spider Woman were quite up-front movies at the time. He got off to a very good start. I sort of lost track of him after that.

 

He did a good turn as the heavy in History of Violence. Not how many people would want a bad guy to behave, but it's well done.

 

If you haven't, go see (rent or buy): Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle



I thought it was her bast acting performance, as Dorothy Parker. I really believed that she deserved a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in this 1994 film. (BTW... Martha Plimpton also makes an appearance in this movie).

 

Not saying Hurt wasn't a prominent actor, but he never starred in big hits. "Body Heat" was probably his biggest success as the lead - though I can't find box office results - and his other lead films did mediocre business.

"Big Chill" was a moderate hit but Hurt was part of a big ensemble.

Again, Hurt is a fine actor who's enjoyed a good career, but he was never a "bankable" lead actor...

 

Shame.

 

I always figured she was George Plimpton's daughter.

 

I wondered that myself. Seems that George Plimpton is a distant relative. I only put this together myself a few years ago.

 

Yeah, I guess - but in the "glass is half full" vein, it's kinda amazing a guy who looked like William Hurt became a "leading man" at all.

Hurt was moderately handsome, but his hairline was "leading man" quality!

He was always an unusual-looking actor to play big leads, so I think it's good he did as well as he did...

 

I was thinking about this statement and then started looking up Mira Sorvino after watching "Quiz Show" Didn't she win the Oscar for "Mighty Aphrodite" and then she kinda disappeared?

 

Not at all. Sorvino was never a big star, but her more prominent lead roles took place after the Oscar: "Romy and Michelle", "Mimic", "Replacement Killers".

Her career settled into a general form of semi-anonymity once we got to the 2000s, though. She works but I'd be hard-pressed to point out anything obviously successful she's been in over the last 15 years...