Sue Lyon dies, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita | Culture
Sue Lyon, who at 14 gave life to Lolita in the homonymous film of Stanley Kubrick, has died at 73 in Los Angeles, United States. Although the cause of his death has not been made public, the health of the actress had been seriously deteriorated in recent years, as revealed by her friend Phil Syracopoulos.
Although her most remembered role is that of Lolita in 1962, the actress was active since 1959, when she debuted in the series Letter to Loretta, until 1980, when he left the interpretation after appearing in the television film Alligator: The Beast Under the Asphalt.
His great role came in 1962, after spending an exhaustive casting to which more than 800 actresses were presented. The writer of the original novel, Vladimir Nabokov, it was clear that she was the only one who could play the young woman on the big screen. "The perfect nymph," was the appellation that the American nationalized Russian author used to refer to her.
Born in Davenport, Iowa, Lyon began acting almost as soon as she had reason. Prior to Lolita I had only participated in productions for the small screen, like the original series of Naughty daniel. After his first foray into the cinema, he worked in The night of the iguana, in 1964, under the direction of John huston, before returning to the television format. In addition to participating in some series such as The virginian, from 1970, or The fantasy island, In 1978, Lyon starred in some low-budget horror tapes. Among them, it should be noted Crash! of 1976, and The last day of the world, where he shared plans with the icon of the genre, Christopher Lee. Throughout her career she was only recognized with a Golden Globe in 1963 under the category of "most promising revelation actress".
