Caitlin O’Heaney, who starred because the stalked bride to be within the cult slasher movie He Is aware of You’re Alone and as a lounge singer and spy within the Donald P. Bellisario-created journey sequence Tales of the Gold Monkey, has died. She was 73.
O’Heaney died Might 18 in Westchester County in New York, her buddy Peter Davis informed The Hollywood Reporter. They just lately labored collectively on the quick movie Religion and Forgiveness. No reason behind dying was revealed.
Educated at Julliard beneath John Houseman and Michael Kahn, O’Heaney additionally labored with Katharine Hepburn on Broadway, performed a Thirties Hollywood actress for Woody Allen in A Midsummer Evening’s Intercourse Comedy (1982) and starred as Snow White on the primary season of the 1987-88 ABC sitcom The Charmings.
The green-eyed, auburn-haired O’Heaney portrayed Amy Jensen, a girl menaced by a bride-obsessed killer, in He Is aware of You’re Alone (1980), an unbiased movie picked up by MGM. Director Armand Mastroianni stated he checked out greater than 4,000 photographs and interviewed greater than 100 actresses earlier than choosing her for the half.
And on the 1982-83 sequence Tales of the Gold Monkey, set in in 1938 within the South Pacific, she portrayed the American spy Sarah Stickney White, the love curiosity of fighter pilot Jake Cutter (Stephen Collins).
Caitlin O’Heaney with Jeff MacKay (left) and Stephen Collins in 1982 on the set of ‘Tales of the Gold Monkey.’
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The youngest of three daughters, Kathleen Helen Heaney was born on Aug. 16, 1952, in Milwaukee and raised within the suburb of Whitefish Bay. Her mom, Ruth, was a bodily ed instructor, and her great-great-great grandfather was Jacob Greatest, proprietor of a brewery that will produce Pabst Blue Ribbon.
She joined the North Shore Kids’s Theatre at age 11, performed clarinet within the band at Whitefish Bay Excessive Faculty and after commencement in 1970 gained a scholarship to Julliard at age 17. Her classmates within the faculty’s third-ever drama class included Christopher Reeve, Robin Williams, Christine Baranski and William Hurt.
When she was 21, she modeled for Salvador Dalí within the grand ballroom and a penthouse room on the St. Regis in New York, she famous in an interview within the late Nineteen Seventies. The undertaking by no means went ahead, she was informed, as a result of Dalí’s spouse was jealous of her.
She reunited with Reeve in 1976 when she made it to Broadway to function the understudy to Wanda Bimson’s ingénue character in A Matter of Gravity, starring Hepburn as an eccentric Englishwoman who hires a servant who can fly. (O’Heaney wound up doing a fantastic impersonation of Hepburn.)
After starring in performs for the ACT Modern Theatre in Seattle and turns on the Public Theater and Playwrights Horizon in New York, she was forged as a faucet dancer within the 1978 ABC comedy Apple Pie. Regardless of being created by Norman Lear and starring Rue McClanahan and Dabney Coleman, the Melancholy-era present aired simply two episodes earlier than being canceled.
She determined to stay in Los Angeles and in 1979 starred in her first slasher movie, Savage Weekend, after which she adopted the stage title Caitlin O’Heaney for He Is aware of You’re Alone. (Tom Hanks made his big-screen debut within the Staten Island-shot film, taking part in a jogger in line for a trip at a rustic truthful.)
Caitlin O’Heaney with Don Scardino in 1980’s ‘He Knows You’re Alone.’
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“I met Caitlin during the film’s casting sessions and was immediately taken by the fact that she reminded me both in looks and in spirit of Vivien Leigh,” Mastroianni wrote. “I reminded her several times of that during the making of the film, much to her amusement.”
She stated she spent hours auditioning alongside Richard Dreyfuss for Steven Spielberg on the Sherry-Netherland resort in New York for a task in Shut Encounters of the Third Sort, however “there was just no way I’d look 28 with four kids. So the part went to Teri Garr,” she defined.
And on the recommendation of her agent, she turned down a dialogue-free position as a nude Christ-like determine that will have opened Ken Russell’s Altered States (1980), a transfer she stated she regretted.
In 1980, she starred because the actress Olive Lashbrooke in a revival of John van Druten’s The Voice of the Turtle.
“Miss O’Heaney is a wonder,” critic Jennifer Dunning wrote in The New York Instances. “With a well-practiced movie star drawl, big eyes that snap like exclamation points and impeccable timing, she roars through the play like a tornado, playing just at the edge of fatal broadness, yet never losing the edge of sadness that lies under Olive’s bitchy humor.”
On The Charmings, Snow White and husband Prince Charming (Christopher Wealthy) awaken from a thousand-year spell and attempt to adapt to life in present-day Burbank, with the princess working in a division retailer. O’Heaney was changed by Carol Huston for the second season, which lasted 15 episodes earlier than being canceled.
She additionally appeared on episodes of AfterMASH, Spenser for Rent, Silver Spoons, St. Elsewhere, Homicide, She Wrote, Magnificence and the Beast, L.A. Legislation and Matlock and in movies together with Wolfen (1981) and the Spielberg-produced Three O’Clock Excessive (1987).
The all the time attention-grabbing O’Heaney served as an assistant cook dinner in 1990 aboard a Greenpeace vessel within the North Sea and from her residence in Los Angeles within the late ’90s created a fragrance referred to as Caitlin, billed as a “medieval” scent with overtones of apple, gardenia and sandalwood. She additionally sang with Pete Seeger, taught performing and beloved animals.
Survivors embrace her sisters, Maureen and Coleen; nephews Robert, Patrick, Kevin, Ryan, Michael and Eric; grandnephews Bradley, Nicholas and Dayton; and grandnieces Myla, Kayla, Vanessa and Naomi.
A celebration of life is being deliberate. Donations in her reminiscence might be made to any animal welfare group.
In 2017, O’Heaney told BuzzFeed Information that she was punched by Val Kilmer throughout an audition for the a part of Jim Morrison’s girlfriend Pamela Courson in Oliver Stone’s The Doorways (1991). The position ultimately went to Meg Ryan.
“When I got to the room and Val Kilmer picked me up and shaked me, throwing me down to the floor, Stone just stood there the whole time laughing,” she recalled. She stated the director walked her to the door and informed her, “That got kind of wild.”
O’Heaney stated she signed a nondisclosure settlement and obtained $24,500 in a settlement however selected to talk out within the wake of allegations of sexual and bodily harassment made in opposition to Harvey Weinstein.
“Women have come together, saying, ‘We’re not going to be fucked by you,’” O’Heaney. “I finally have the confidence to speak about this. It’s too long that I’ve sat on this story.”
