Yvette Mimieux, star of the 1960 sci-fi flick “The Time Machine,” has handed away at 80.
She died in her sleep from pure causes on Tuesday morning, her household’s rep confirmed to Deadline.
Mimieux simply celebrated her eightieth birthday on Jan. 8.
She was finest identified for starring alongside Rod Taylor within the movie adaption of H.G. Wells’ novel “The Time Machine,” however had notable roles within the motion pictures “The place the Boys Are,” “Platinum Excessive Faculty,” “The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse” and “Gentle within the Piazza.”
Mimieux later made a foray into tv, visitor starring on two episodes of the Richard Chamberlain collection “Dr. Kildare.” On the present, she made historical past by changing into the primary particular person on American tv to show her belly button.
In 1974, she penned a thriller script for Aaron Spelling entitled “Hit Girl.” She performed the eponymous murderer within the ABC TV film.
She additionally starred in 1976’s “Jackson County Jail,” an edgy crime thriller which had her wrongfully imprisoned and accused of murdering a guard who assaulted her.
Throughout her profession, she was nominated for 3 Golden Globe Awards.
She ultimately retired from appearing in 1992 after her remaining TV film, “Girl Boss.”
Mimieux was married and divorced thrice and had no youngsters. After marriages to Evan Harland Engber in 1969 and director Stanley Donen in 1972, she ultimately settled down with Howard F. Ruby, whom she married in 1986 and shared 36 years collectively.
Mimieux was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1942 to a French father and Mexican mom. She had two siblings, a sister and a brother.
Mimieux made six motion pictures earlier than she was 21 and gained a repute for portraying “delicate” roles. “I suppose I had a soulful high quality. I used to be typically solid as a wounded particular person,” she informed the Washington Post in 1979.
She was additionally identified to be extraordinarily personal — even in demise. No companies are deliberate for the actress, in line with Deadline.
“I made a decision I didn’t need to have a completely public life,” she mentioned again in 1979. “When the fan magazines began desirous to take footage of me making sandwiches for my husband, I mentioned ‘no.’ You understand there are tribes in Africa who consider {that a} digicam steals a little bit a part of your soul, and in a manner I believe that’s true about residing your personal life in public. It takes one thing away out of your relationships, it cheapens them.”
