Caitlin O’Heaney, who played the stalked bride in the horror film He knows you’re lonely and as a lounge singer and spy in the adventure series created by Donald P. Bellisario Tales of the Golden MonkeyHe died. She was 73 years old.
Ohene died on May 18 in Westchester County, New York, her friend Peter Davis said Hollywood Reporter. They recently worked together in the short film Faith and forgiveness. The cause of death was not revealed.
O’Heaney trained at Juilliard under John Housman and Michael Cahn, also worked with Katharine Hepburn on Broadway, and played a 1930s Hollywood actress for Woody Allen in A sex comedy set on a midsummer night (1982) and starred as Snow White in the first season of the ABC sitcom 1987-88 The witch.
The green-eyed, brown-haired Ohene plays Amy Jensen, a woman threatened by a bride-obsessed killer, in He knows you’re lonely (1980), an independent film picked up by MGM. Director Armand Mastroianni said he looked at more than 4,000 photographs and interviewed more than 100 actresses before choosing her for the role.
And in the 1982-83 series Tales of the Golden MonkeyThe film is set in 1938 in the South Pacific, and stars American spy Sarah Stickney White, the lover of fighter pilot Jake Cutter (Stephen Collins).
Kathleen Helen Heaney, the youngest of three daughters, was born August 16, 1952, in Milwaukee and grew up in the suburb of Whitefish Bay. Her mother, Ruth, was a physical education teacher, and her great-grandfather was Jacob Best, owner of the brewery that would produce Pabst Blue Ribbon.
She joined the North Shore Children’s Theater at age 11, played clarinet in the band at Whitefish Bay High School, and after graduating in 1970 won a scholarship to Juilliard at age 17. Her classmates in the school’s third-ever drama class included Christopher Reeve, Robin Williams, Christine Baranski and William Hurt.
When she was 21, she modeled for Salvador Dali in the Great Hall and Penthouse Room of the St. Regis Hotel in New York, she recalled in an interview in the late 1970s. She was told that the project never went ahead because Dalí’s wife was jealous of her.
She reunited with Reeve in 1976 when she arrived on Broadway to serve as the understudy to the dazzling Wanda Bimson in The question of gravitystarring Hepburn as an eccentric Englishwoman who hires a servant who can fly. (Ohene ended up doing a great impersonation of Hepburn.)
After starring in plays by ACT Contemporary Theater in Seattle and moving to the Public Theater and Playwrights Horizon in New York, she was cast as a tap dancer in the 1978 ABC comedy. apple pie. Although it was created by Norman Lear and starred Rue McClanahan and Dabney Coleman, the Depression-era show only aired two episodes before it was cancelled.
She decided to stay in Los Angeles and in 1979 starred in her first film. Brutal weekendafter which she adopted the stage name Caitlin O’Heaney for He knows you’re lonely. (Tom Hanks makes his big screen debut in the film, which was shot on Staten Island, playing a runner in line at a country fair ride.)
“I met Caitlyn during casting sessions for the film, and it immediately struck me that she reminded me of the look and spirit of Vivien Leigh,” Mastroianni wrote. “I reminded her of that several times during the filming, which amused her a lot.”
She said she spent hours auditioning alongside Steven Spielberg’s Richard Dreyfuss at New York’s Cherry Holland Hotel for a role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind“, but “there was no way I could look 28 with four kids. So the role went to Teri Garr.”
On the advice of her agent, she turned down a dialogue-free role as a nude Christ-like figure, which would have opened Ken Russell’s film. Changing countries (1980), a move she said she regretted.
In 1980, she was played by actress Olive Lashbrook in a revival of John Van Druten’s film. Turtle’s voice.
“Miss Ohene is a wonder,” wrote critic Jennifer Dunning. In the New York Times. “With well-practiced movie star movements, big eyes that catch like exclamation marks and impeccable timing, she roars through the play like a hurricane, playing on the edge of deadly vastness, but never losing the edge of sadness that lies beneath Olive’s wicked humor.”
on The witchSnow White and her husband, Prince Charming (Christopher Rich), awaken from a thousand-year spell and try to adjust to life in present-day Burbank, where the princess works in a department store. O’Heaney was replaced by Carol Huston for the second season, which lasted 15 episodes before being cancelled.
She also appeared in episodes Aftermash, Spencer for hire, Silver spoons, Saint elsewhere, Murder, she wrote, beauty and the beast, Los Angeles Law and Matlock And in movies including Wolfin (1981) and produced by Spielberg Three o’clock is high (1987).
The ever-interesting Ohene worked as a sous-chef in 1990 on a Greenpeace ship in the North Sea, and from her home in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, she created a perfume called Caitlin, which was described as a “medieval” scent with undertones of apple, gardenia and sandalwood. She also sang with Pete Seeger, taught acting, and loved animals.
Survivors include her sisters, Maureen and Colleen. nephews Robert, Patrick, Kevin, Ryan, Michael and Eric; grandchildren Bradley, Nicholas and Dayton; and grandchildren, Mila, Kayla, Vanessa and Naomi.
A celebration of life is being planned. Donations in her memory may be made to any animal welfare organization.
In 2017, Ohene said BuzzFeed News She was beaten by Val Kilmer during an audition for the role of Pamela Courson, Jim Morrison’s girlfriend, in the Oliver Stone film. Doors (1991). The role eventually went to Meg Ryan.
“When I got into the room and Val Kilmer picked me up and shook me, and dropped me to the floor, Stone stood there the whole time laughing,” she recalls. She said the director led her to the door and told her, “This is getting kind of weird.”
Ohene said she signed a non-disclosure agreement and received a $24,500 settlement but chose to speak out in the wake of sexual and physical harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
“Women came together and said, ‘We’re not going to have sex with you,’” Ohene said. “Finally, I have the confidence to talk about this. I’ve sat around for a long time talking about this story.”
