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Kathleen Denise Quinlan Wiki Biography

Kathleen Denise Quinlan was born on the 19th November 1954, in Pasadena, California, USA, and is an actress probably best known for her appearances in movies “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” (1977) and “Apollo 13” (1995) for which she was honored with Golden Globe and Academy Awards. She also made a memorable appearance in TV series “Family Law”, “Prison Break” and, more recently, “Blue”.

Have you ever wondered how much wealth this Oscar nominee has accumulated so far? How rich Kathleen Quinlan is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total of Kathleen Quinlan’s net worth, as of mid-2017, revolves around the sum of $6 million, acquired through her career in the moviemaking industry which is now spans almost 45 years.

Kathleen Quinlan Net Worth $6 million

Kathleen was the only child of military supply supervisor Josephine, and television sports director Robert Quinlan. She was still attending Tamalpais High School majoring in drama when she debuted as an actress at her age of 19, appearing in the 1972 drama movie “Two Is a Happy Number”. This role went uncredited, so her official debut occurred in 1973, when she was cast for the George Lucas’ drama movie “American Graffiti”. These involvements provided the basis for Kathleen Quinlan’s net worth.

The next several years Quinlan spent mastering her skills through numerous support roles, primarily in TV series, including “Police Woman”, “Lucas Tanner” and “The Waltons”. The real breakthrough in her on-camera career occurred in 1977, when she portrayed the schizophrenic teenage girl Deborah Blake in Anthony Page’s fantasy drama movie “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.” The movie was nominated for an Oscar while Kathleen earned her first Golden Globe Award nomination. Doubtlessly, all these engagements helped Kathleen Quinlan to establish herself as a young, prominent actress and also positively impacted her wealth.

Although she had appeared in several leading roles through the rest of the 1970s and 1980s, a more notable role came in 1991 when she was cast as Patricia Kennealy in Oliver Stone’s biographical drama “The Doors”. In 1995 Kathleen was cast as Marylyn Lovell, opposing Tom Hanks in the leading role of documentary drama based on a true story – “Apollo 13”, a performance which earned her nominations for both Academy as well as Golden Globe Awards. There are several other memorable big screen performances in Kathleen’s acting portfolio, such as “Lawn Dogs” (1997), “The Hills Have Eyes” (2006) and “Beach” (2007). She has also appeared in various TV series such as, apart from those already mentioned above, “House”, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “Chicago Fire”. It is certain that all these involvements have helped Kathleen Quinlan to significantly boost the total size of her net worth.

When it comes to her personal life, it has been publically acknowledged that Kathleen Quinlan has been married since 1994, to a fellow actor Bruce Abbott, with whom she has a son.



Full Name Kathleen Quinlan
Net Worth $6 Million
Date Of Birth November 19, 1954
Place Of Birth Pasadena, California, USA
Height 5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
Profession Actress, Producer, Soundtrack
Nationality American
Spouse Bruce Abbott
Children Tyler Abbott
Parents Josephine Quinlan, Robert Quinlan
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000599/
Awards Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominations Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Movies The Hills Have Eyes, Apollo 13, Event Horizon, Breakdown, The Doors, Made of Honor, Twilight Zone: The Movie, American Graffiti, Zeus and Roxanne, A Civil Action, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Breach, My Giant, Lawn Dogs, Clara’s Heart, Sunday Lovers, The Battle of Shaker Heights, Cinema Verit…
TV Shows Family Law, Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
Quote
1 Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn’t relate to most of it.
2 My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I’d rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I’m kind of boring.
3 Some of the newer folks in the industry, I’m not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don’t understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.
4 The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.
5 When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.
6 It’s just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.
7 I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.
8 I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.
9 I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.
10 In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we’re not consciously looking for it.
11 My dream job has already happened.
12 At this point in my career, Apollo 13 is a million light years away.
13 I didn’t think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.
14 There are not many roles where women are really active.
15 I like to go to openings when I’m in it, or friends are in it.
Fact
1 Was considered for the role of “Clarice Starling” in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), but Jodie Foster who went on to receive an Academy Award for her performance, was cast instead.
2 Stepmother of Dalton Abbott.
3 Has a son, Tyler Quinlan Abbott (born October 17, 1990), with Bruce Abbott.
4 Graduate of Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California where she was an accomplished diver.
5 Her leading role in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) was previously intended for Natalie Wood, who had unrealized plans to both produce and star in that film.
6 Was a gymnast in high school.
7 Listed as one of twelve “Promising New Actors of 1977” in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 29.

Actress

Title Year Status Character
Chimera 2017/I completed Masterson
ADDicted 2017 completed Kate Dawson
Parallel 2017/II post-production Marissa
Elizabeth Blue 2017 Carol
How Not to Propose 2015 TV Movie Susan
After 2014/II Nora Valentino
Blue 2012-2014 TV Series Jessica
Horns 2013 Lydia Perrish
Chicago Fire 2012-2013 TV Series Nancy Casey
Life’s an Itch 2012 Audrey
Glee 2011 TV Series Dr. Shane
Cinema Verite 2011 TV Movie Mary
SGU Stargate Universe 2011 TV Series Senator Michaels
Andrew White Jr. II 2011 Short Nurse Jeanie
The Event 2010 TV Series Erika Jarvis
Harm’s Way 2010 Bea
Eagles in the Chicken Coop 2010 Mary Bernstein
The River Why 2010 Ma
Elektra Luxx 2010 Rebecca Linbrook
Adult Film: A Hollywood Tale 2009 Mary Bernstein
Prison Break: The Final Break 2009 Video Christina Rose Scofield
Prison Break 2008-2009 TV Series Christina Rose Scofield
Empire State 2009 TV Movie Colleen Cochrane
Made of Honor 2008 Joan
The Dissection of Thanksgiving 2008 Carol
Breach 2007 Bonnie Hanssen
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2007 TV Series Barbara Tallman
Humble Pie 2007 Agnes Orbison
House M.D. 2006 TV Series Arlene McNeil
The Hills Have Eyes 2006 Ethel
The Dead Will Tell 2004 TV Movie Beth Hytner
El padrino 2004 Judge Scorsi
The Riverman 2004 TV Movie Sande Keppel
Perfect Romance 2004 TV Movie Tess Kelly
Blessings 2003 TV Movie Meredith Blessing
The Battle of Shaker Heights 2003 Eve
Family Law 1999-2002 TV Series Lynn Holt
Diagnosis Murder 1999 TV Series Dr. Kate Delieb
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke 1999 TV Movie Nanaline Duke
A Civil Action 1998 Anne Anderson
My Giant 1998 Serena Kamin
Lawn Dogs 1997 Clare Stockard
Event Horizon 1997 Peters, Med Tech
Breakdown 1997/I Amy Taylor
Zeus and Roxanne 1997 Mary Beth Dunhill
In the Lake of the Woods 1996 TV Movie Kathy Waylan
Picture Windows 1995 TV Series Hooker
Perfect Alibi 1995 Melanie Bauers
Apollo 13 1995/I Marilyn Lovell
Trial by Jury 1994 Wanda
The Hidden Room 1993 TV Series Julia
Last Light 1993 TV Movie Kathy Rubicek
Tribeca 1993 TV Series Karen
Stolen Babies 1993 TV Movie Bekka
An American Story 1992 TV Movie Hope Tyler
Strays 1991 TV Movie Lindsey Jarrett
The Doors 1991 Patricia Kennealy
The Operation 1990 TV Movie Ginnie
Trapped 1989 TV Movie Mary Ann Marshall
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1986-1988 TV Series Karen Wilson / Ann Foley
Clara’s Heart 1988 Leona Hart
Sunset 1988 Nancy Shoemaker
Man Outside 1987 Grace Freemont
Dreams Lost, Dreams Found 1987 TV Movie Sarah McAllister
Wild Thing 1987 Jane
Children of the Night 1985 TV Movie Lois Lee
Warning Sign 1985 Joanie Morse
Blackout 1985 TV Movie Chris Graham
The Last Winter 1984 Joyce
When She Says No 1984 TV Movie Rose Michaels
Twilight Zone: The Movie 1983 Helen Foley (segment “It’s a Good Life”)
Independence Day 1983 Mary Ann Taylor
Hanky Panky 1982 Janet Dunn
She’s in the Army Now 1981 TV Movie Pvt. Cass Donner
Les séducteurs 1980 Laurie (segment “Skippy”)
The Runner Stumbles 1979 Sister Rita
The Promise 1979 Nancy McAllister / Marie Adamson
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 1977 Deborah Blake
Airport ’77 1977 Julie
Nightmare in Blood 1977 as Kathy Quinlan
Little Ladies of the Night 1977 TV Movie Karen Brodwick
Lifeguard 1976/I Wendy
The Waltons 1974-1976 TV Series Selina Linville
Joe Forrester 1975 TV Series
Three for the Road 1975 TV Series
Switch 1975 TV Series Robin Morgan
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy 1975 TV Movie Edith Evans
The Abduction of Saint Anne 1975 TV Movie Anne Benedict
The Missing Are Deadly 1975 TV Movie Michelle
Ironside 1974 TV Series Peggy Lynch
Lucas Tanner 1974 TV Series Joyce Howell
Where Have All the People Gone 1974 TV Movie Deborah Anders
Kojak 1974 TV Series Janet Conforti
Police Woman 1974 TV Series Debbie Sweet
Can Ellen Be Saved? 1974 TV Movie Melissa
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law 1974 TV Series Jill
Emergency! 1973 TV Series Janet
American Graffiti 1973 Peg (as Kathy Quinlan)
Two Is a Happy Number 1972 uncredited

Producer

Title Year Status Character
Eagles in the Chicken Coop 2010 associate producer

Soundtrack

Title Year Status Character
The Hills Have Eyes 2006 performer: “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” – uncredited

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 1996 Video documentary special thanks

Self

Title Year Status Character
The Peter Austin Noto Show 2017 TV Series Herself
Wine Dancing 2015 Herself
Vikingsholm: The Legacy of Lora Knight and Helen Smith 2009 Video documentary Narrator (voice)
Greatest Ever Disaster Movies 2007 TV Movie Herself
Breach: Anatomy of a Character 2007 Video short Herself
HBO First Look 1998-2007 TV Series documentary short Herself
Surviving the Hills: Making of ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ 2006 Video documentary Herself
Hollywood’s Magical Island: Catalina 2003 Documentary Herself – Actress
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Tom Hanks 2002 TV Special Herself
VH-1 Where Are They Now? 2002 TV Series documentary Herself
CBS Cares 2001-2002 TV Series Herself
Project Greenlight 2001 TV Series Herself
Biography 2001 TV Series documentary Herself
Hollywood Squares 1999-2001 TV Series Herself
The Rosie O’Donnell Show 1999 TV Series Herself
The Making of ‘American Graffiti’ 1998 TV Movie documentary Herself
1998 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 1998 TV Special Herself
The Road of Excess 1997 Video documentary short Herself
Late Show with David Letterman 1995-1997 TV Series Herself
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 1996 Video documentary Herself
The 68th Annual Academy Awards 1996 TV Special Herself – Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
The 53rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 1996 TV Special Herself – Nominee
Late Night with Conan O’Brien 1995 TV Series Herself
Showbiz Today 1995 TV Series Herself
Good Morning America 1979 TV Series Herself

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
Prison Break 2009 TV Series Christina Rose Scofield
Boffo! Tinseltown’s Bombs and Blockbusters 2006 Documentary Marilyn Lovell (uncredited)

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1998 Blockbuster Entertainment Award Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Favorite Supporting Actress – Suspense Breakdown (1997)
1996 Actor Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast Apollo 13 (1995)
1985 Best Actress Mystfest Blackout (1985)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2000 OFTA Television Award Online Film & Television Association Best Actress in a New Drama Series Family Law (1999)
1996 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Actress in a Supporting Role Apollo 13 (1995)
1996 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Apollo 13 (1995)
1996 CFCA Award Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actress Apollo 13 (1995)
1995 ACCA Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role Apollo 13 (1995)
1978 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)

2nd Place Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1995 ACCA Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Cast Ensemble Apollo 13 (1995)

3rd Place Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1996 DFWFCA Award Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actress Apollo 13 (1995)

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