Beverly D’Angelo played Ellen Griswold across four National Lampoon’s Vacation films, functioning as the only competent adult in a family disintegrating around her.
Coal Miner’s Daughter gave her Patsy Cline, and she does her own singing, earning a Golden Globe nomination.
She was an opera singer and a cartoonist for Hanna-Barbera before acting, and has worked steadily in television. Violent Night gave her a late comic role.
Beverly DAngeloChechik's 1989 American comedy depicting Clark Griswold's plans for a perfect family Christmas at his suburban Chicago home, which unravel through extended-family chaos, holiday catastrophe, and a frozen pool that becomes the screenplay's central comic obsession. Christmas Vacation is the…
Alex HassellViolent Night is Tommy Wirkola's 2022 American action-comedy depicting Santa Claus, played as a disillusioned former Viking warrior, trapped inside a wealthy family's Connecticut compound as mercenaries take the family hostage on Christmas Eve, leading Santa to fight back with…
Avery BrooksTony Kaye's 1998 Edward Norton vehicle on neo-Nazi violence. The bathroom scene with Avery Brooks remains the most powerful in the film.
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