About Kathleen Quinlan
Kathleen Denise Quinlan (born November 19, 1954) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1977 film of the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and her Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated role in the 1995 film Apollo 13, along with many roles in other feature films, television movies, and series, in a career spanning almost five decades. Quinlan had an uncredited role in 1972's One Is a Lonely Number but her official credited film debut was in George Lucas's 1973 movie American Graffiti, at the age of 18. Quinlan was born on November 19, 1954, in Pasadena, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Her mother Josephine (née Zachry) was a military supply supervisor, and her father Robert Quinlan, was a television sports director.
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