RIP Jill Clayburgh (1944–2010)

Jill Clayburgh, one of the leading actresses of the ’70s and a two-time Oscar nominee, died on Friday at her home in Lakeville, Conn., according to the New York Times.

She was 66. The cause was chronic Leukemia, a disease she had lived with for more than 20 years, her husband, playwright David Rabe, told the paper.

Growing up I first saw Clayburgh in the comedy Silver Streak, starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.She went on to star in the 1978 drama, An Unmarried Woman, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for best actress. She was nominated for an Oscar again for her 1979 role in the film, Starting Over.

Clayburgh’s other notable films include Semi-Tough,, Gable and Lombard and Bertolucci's Luna. 2008's Running With Scissors alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes.

More recently, she was a regular on the short lived TV series  Dirty Sexy Money and she will also soon be seen in the film Love and Other Drugs, in which she plays Jake Gyllenhaal's mother.