Sue Lyon.Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Actress Sue Lyon, best known for her role inStanley Kubrick‘s adaptation ofLolita, has died,The New York Timesreported. She was 73.
Lyon died on Thursday in Los Angeles, according to the newspaper. A longtime friend of the actress told theTimesthat she had been experiencing declining health for a while.
TheTimesreported that Lyon was cast inLolitawhen she was 14 years old, reportedly beating out 800 other actresses. The movie portrayed Dolores as 15 years old instead of 12 years old, in order to comply with the strict Motion Picture Production Code, according toThe Hollywood Reporter. The poster for the film showed Lyon in red heart-shaped sunglasses and licking a lollipop.
Lyon won aGolden Globeaward for most promising female newcomer at the 1963 awards ceremony.
After her work with Kubrick onLolita, Lyon worked with other notable directors on her next two films: John Ford’s7 Womenand John Huston’sThe Night of the Iguana.
She also starred inTony Rome,TheFlim-Flam ManandEvel Knievel, as well as various television shows. Her most recent credit was the 1980 movieAlligator.
Sue Lyon in 1982.Nik Wheeler/Corbis via Getty Images
According to theTimes, Lyon was married several times, to Hampton Fancher, Roland Harrison, Cotton Adamson and Edward Weathers. Her marriage to Adamson, who was a convicted murderer at the time of their wedding, was the most controversial, and she later claimed that their relationship had a negative effect on her career, theTimesreported.
source: people.com
