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An actress who spent the 1950s as a contract ingenue before walking away from Hollywood to prove she could do more, returning in Robert Rossen's The Hustler (1961) with a performance so raw it earned her the first of three Academy Award nominations. She later played Carrie's terrifying mother in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976) and Catherine Martell in Twin Peaks, building a body of work defined by its refusal to play it safe.