Dimitra Arliss(1932-2012)
- Actress
- Sound Department
Dimitra Arliss' acting career began at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago,
she first caught audience's eyes appearing in
Arthur Kopit's Broadway play "Indians", she
played a Native American character who spoke with an Italian accent.
While she continued acting on stage, she began to appear in several
television and film productions, such as
The Sting (1973),
Xanadu (1980),
Firefox (1982) and
It's My Party (1996). To horror
film aficionados, Dimitra is best remembered as Dahnya in
Bless the Child (2000); it would
be her last film before dying from complications of a stroke, she died
at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills,
California. She was 79.
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