Laurie Bird
| Laurie Bird | |
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| Born |
September 26, 1952 Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York |
| Died | June 15, 1979 (aged 25) Manhattan, New York City, New York |
| Burial place |
Flushing Cemetery, Queens, New York City, New York 40°45′6″N 73°47′58″W / 40.75167°N 73.79944°W |
| Other names | Lauri Bird |
| Occupation | Film actor, photographer |
Laurie Bird (September 26, 1953 – June 15, 1979) was an American film actress and photographer.
Bird's mother died when she was three. Her father, an electrical engineer, was a former sailor in the United States Navy.
Described by Hollywood columnist Dick Kleiner as "look[ing] like an innocent Hayley Mills," Bird appeared in just three films: Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), Cockfighter (1974), and a small role as girlfriend to Paul Simon 's character in the romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977), from Woody Allen. (Archival footage of the actress in Two-Lane Blacktop is featured in the 2006 documentary Wanderlust.) In Two-Lane Blacktop she played "The Girl." In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Bird was the still photographer on Cockfighter and shot the cover photo for Art Garfunkel's 1977 album Watermark.
She was romantically involved with her Blacktop and Cockfighter director Monte Hellman. From 1974 until her death in 1979, Bird was in a serious romantic relationship with Art Garfunkel .
In 1979 Bird committed suicide by taking an overdose of Valium in the apartment she shared with Garfunkel in New York. At Bird's funeral, her father revealed that her mother's death, previously reported as being from ovarian cancer, was also a suicide.
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