Elizabeth Hartman

Mary Elizabeth Hartman (December 23, 1943 – June 10, 1987) was an American actress of the stage and screen. She debuted in the popular 1965 film ''A Patch of Blue'', playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.

She appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's ''You're a Big Boy Now'' as Barbara Darling, for which she was nominated for a second Golden Globe Award.

She also starred in Don Siegel's ''The Beguiled'' opposite Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, and in the 1973 film ''Walking Tall''.

On stage, Hartman is remembered for her interpretations of Laura Wingfield in ''The Glass Menagerie'', for which she won Ohio's "Actress of the Year" award, and Emily Webb in the 1969 Broadway production of ''Our Town''. Hartman retired from acting in 1982 after portraying Mrs. Brisby in Don Bluth's first animated feature, ''The Secret of NIMH'' (1982). Provided by Wikipedia