There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

She appeared in numerous Broadway productions in the 1960s and 1970s including The Rothschilds and Pippin. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles in An Unmarried Woman (1978) and Starting Over (1979). Death
Clayburgh had chronic lymphocytic leukemia for more than 20 years before dying from the disease at her home in Lakeville Connecticut on November 5 2010.

Jill Clayburgh (April 30 1944 – November 5 2010) was an American actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles in An Unmarried Woman (1978) and Starting Over (1979).