Joan Copeland
The US actress has died
Actress Joan Copeland and her brother, writer Arthur Miller.
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She was the sister of Arthur Miller and sister-in-law of Marilyn Monroe. Actress Joan Copeland has now died at the age of 99.
US actress Joan Copeland (1922-2022) is dead. She died early Tuesday morning in her sleep in her Manhattan home on Central Park West, like her son Eric the “Hollywood Reporter” announced. The sister of the legendary writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller (1915-2005) and former sister-in-law (1956-1961) of Hollywood superstar Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) turned 99 years old. On June 1st, which was also Monroe’s birthday, she would have celebrated her 100th birthday.
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Joan Copeland played “Detective Story” on Broadway in Sidney Kingsley’s (1906-1995) and represented Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) in the role of Coco Chanel in the musical “Coco”, which was performed more than 320 times from 1969 to 1970 .
As one of the first members of The Actors Studio, Copeland starred in several soap operas. She played the twins Maggie and Kay in the CBS series “Love of Life” (1960-1963) and the villain Andrea Whiting in the CBS series “Search for Tomorrow” (1967-1972) and appeared in series such as “Jung.” and Passionate – How Life Works “(CBS) and” Love, Lie, Passion “(ABC) on. From 1991 to 2001 she starred in the role of judge Rebecca Stein on the NBC series “Law & Order”.
She was married to the bacteriologist George Kupchik (1915-1989) from 1943 until his death in July 1989. The bereaved include their son Eric and their niece, the filmmaker Rebecca Miller (59, “The Ballad of Jack and Rose”).