Jessica Walter, beloved 'Arrested Development' star with a long resume, dies at 80

Jessica Walter is the mother of re-invention.

Walter started her career in theater, with Broadway productions including “Advise and Consent,” “Rumors,” “A Severed Head,” “Nightlife” and “Photo Finish.” The last earned her the Clarence Derwent Award for most promising female newcomer in 1963, the year Gene Hackman won for most promising male newcomer.

Walter’s feature film debut was in the 1964 movie “Lilith,” with Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg and Hackman, who coincidentally was also making his big-screen debut. From there she carved out a notable career as a dramatic actress in films such as Sidney Lumet’s 1966 movie “The Group.” Her work in that movie caught Clint Eastwood’s eye for the role of the obsessed stalker in “Play Misty for Me,” his 1971 directorial debut.in 2014. “No audition. We had a talk, and he offered me a carrot juice.

“There’s a bit of Evelyn in me — the smothering, capable of killing, desperate, pathetic kind of person,” Walter told The Times about her stalker character in “Play Misty,” shortly after the movie opened. “The characteristics are way down deep. They’re only dormant threats, black things that a sane, civilized woman doesn’t employ. But they’re there — in all of us.”

Walter also appeared in numerous TV series, including “The Streets of San Francisco” and “Trapper John, M.D.,” and won an Emmy for her lead role in the 1974 show “Amy Prentiss.” Like so many New York actors, she had guest roles in “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”

Rip

Rest In Peace. Thank you for all that you have shared of your life thru your skill and love of comedy. You were loved and will be missed.

From play misty for me to archer,she was good.

Jessica Walter is LEGEND. RIP

This will seriously wreck future seasons of Archer!

good luck

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