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Rutanya Alda (born Rūta Skrastiņa; October 13, 1942) is a Latvian-American actress. She began her career in the late 1960s, and went on to have supporting parts in The Deer Hunter (1978), Rocky II (1979), and Mommie Dearest (1981). She also appeared in a lead role in the horror films Amityville II: The Possession and Girls Nite Out (both 1982).
She studied at the famous Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, as well as studying with many others, but it was legendary director Brian De Palma, who gave Rutanya her first break in the business, in the film, GREETINGS, which starred a very young Robert De Niro.
Jul 19, 2018 · 1. How long have you been acting, both in general and specifically within the horror genre? I’ve been acting since 1969 in film and I did my first horror movie in 1979, WHEN A STRANGER CALLS. 2. Have there been certain life events that led you to an acting career in horror, as opposed to in other genres?
Rutanya Alda broke into films via Brian De Palma's experimental movies of the late 1960s. Is no relation to two more famous Aldas, father and son: Robert Alda (born Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo) and Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo).
- October 13, 1942
Jul 11, 2017 · In my background reading I learned that Dunaway hated the movie; she thought it exploited Joan Crawford and ruined her supposedly good reputation. When she realized how brutal she had to become...
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Oct 9, 2015 · Now publishing for the first time her memoirs on the set of that film, Rutanya also reminisces on her childhood growing up in displaced persons camps during World War II, working as Mia Farrow s...
Jan 11, 2015 · I am one of the lucky few to have met one of mine, the cult actress Rutanya Alda, who’s beautiful face should be familiar to fans of 70s and 80s films. She played such diverse roles the young bride in the classic The Deer Hunter and Joan Crawford’s hapless personal assistant Carol Anne in the infamous Mommie Dearest .
