Actress Melinda Dillon, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for the movies “A Christmas Story” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” has died, according to a cremation service in Long Beach, California. She played the mother in “A Christmas Story,” a nostalgic look back at a boy longing for a toy rifle. In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters,” she searches for her little boy after aliens abduct him. “Melinda Dillon was such a great actress, with a wonderful delicacy about her. Lou Diamond Phillips wrote: “So very, very sad to hear of the passing of Melinda Dillon.

Source: CNN February 04, 2023 15:33 UTC