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Sally Kellerman
Age: 72
Height: 5' 10
Birth Place: Long Beach, California, USA
Born: Jun. 2nd, 1937
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BIOGRAPHY: Sally Kellerman is an American actress she was born in Long Beach, California.
She is best remembered for portraying Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in Robert Altman's acclaimed 1970 film M*A*S*H, in which she co-starred with fellow Star Trek performers Rene Auberjonois, John Schuck and Fred Williamson. Later that same year, she again appeared with Auberjonois and Schuck in Altman's Brewster McCloud, also starring William Windom and Bert Remsen. She would co-star with Auberjonois yet again in the 1976 comedy The Big Bus, which also featured Vic Tayback.
She portrayed Elizabeth Dehner in "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the second pilot for Star Trek: The Original Series.
She had previously co-starred with Jeff Corey in the 1968 thiller The Boston Strangler. In 1978, she was among the many Star Trek performers who had roles in the epic mini-series Centennial. Also starring in this series were Michael Ansara, Henry Darrow, Cliff deYoung, Robert DoQui, Robert Easton, Brian Keith, Stephen McHattie, Nick Ramus, Clive Revill, Steve Sandor, James Sloyan, Morgan Woodward, and Anthony Zerbe.
In 1986, she starred in the Rodney Dangerfield comedy Back to School, which also featured Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Terry Farrell, Star Trek: Voyager star Robert Picardo, DS9 guest actress Adrienne Barbeau and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home star Phil Rubenstein. Kellerman would reunite with director Robert Altman after twenty years for the acclaimed 1992 film The Player, in which she and Rene Auberjonois appeared as themselves, as did Paul Dooley, Louise Fletcher, Teri Garr, Malcolm McDowell, Bert Remsen, and Ray Walston. (Whoopi Goldberg and Dean Stockwell also starred in the film.) Two years later, Kellerman appeared in Altman's Prêt-à-Porter (Ready to Wear), along with Teri Garr.
Kellerman's sensual voice is often heard in several TV commercials. She also provided voices for the animated features The Mouse and His Child (1977) and Happily Ever After (1990, with Malcolm McDowell and Frank Welker).
TRIVIA:
- Harrison Ford built her a deck when he supported himself as a carpenter.
- Very close friend of 'John Travolta' (qv) and Kelly Preston'.
- Was first choice for the role of Linda Rogo in 'The Poseidon Adventure' (1972. She turned the part down, and it was given to 'Stella Stevens'.
- Supplements her ongoing film career with stints as a nightclub singer, television and radio narrator and voice-overs.
- Very close friend of 'Robert Altman (I)' (qv) and his wife Kathryn Reed Altman.
- Very close friends with actor Bud Cort.
- 'Robert Altman (I)' (qv) initially did not want Kellerman for the part of "Hot Lips Houlihan" in 'MASH' 1970 because "she was too attractive" and he wanted unattractive actors.
- Stepmother of ex-husband 'Rick Edelstein (I)' (qv)'s 4 daughters.
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