As only the most skilled thespians can, you covered it all, though horror and thrillers proved significant beacons in your prodigious career.
In this respect, Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie perhaps holds your most famous achievement, but there's also Ruby; Trauma; The Faculty; and The Dead Girl, as well your stints on the 1980s Twilight Zone, Dead Like Me and as Catherine Martell for the anomalous Twin Peaks.
Among your fantasy/adventure films, you were as bewitching, as one can attest from Return to Oz; Son of Ali Baba; The Prince Who Was a Thief; The Golden Blade; Dawn at Socorro; Smoke Signal; The Mississippi Gambler; and Dangerous Mission!
And yet there are so many other melodramas in which you shine: Louisa; The Hustler; The Bunker; The Thorn Birds; Inherit the Wind 1999; Days of Wine and Roses 1958; Until They Sail; A Christmas Memory; Shadows of Desire; Lies and Lullabies; The Grass Harp; The Crossing Guard; Appointment with Death; Tim; Hersher; Tiger Warsaw; Johnny Dark; Kelly and Me; Ain't Misbehavin'; Has Anybody Seen My Gal?; Frances Goes to the Races; The Milkman; Dream a Little Dream; Other People's Money; No Room for the Groom; Rich in Love; Storyville; Snapshots; Another Harvest Moon; Children of a Lesser God; Wrestling Ernest Hemingway; Saving Grace B. Jones; Eulogy; Hounddog; and White Boy Rick.
You possessed a unique charisma, Ms. Laurie, and when it came to switching from sweet to sinister, you did like no other: the sign of an amazing performer and an obvious reason why you became (and will remain) one of the best of all time.
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