Saturday, April 25, 2015

TO HAL BATES FROM KARLA TAMBURRELLI


"To Hal / You're a doll! / Karla Tamburrelli"

Karla Tamburrelli is an actress and producer, known for Die Hard 2 (1990), City Slickers (1991) and Forever Young (1992).

She was nominated for a 1993 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "Lost in Yonkers" at Fox Theatricals in Chicago, Illinois.

Karla Tamburrelli made her film debut in the show Miami Vice as "Ample" Annie, a stripper who married Nugart Neville Lamont in the episode "Made For Each Other", later became a "singer" and waitress who befriended Dorothy Bain (played by Eszter Balint) in the episode "Buddies".

After her film debut in Vice, Tamburelli appeared in the following:
  • Valerie (TV, 1988)
  • Die Hard 2 (first movie appearance, 1990 with Bruce Willis)
  • Nothing But Trouble (1991)
  • City Slickers (1991)
  • Forever Young (1992, with Joe Morton)
  • Who's The Boss? (TV, 1992)
  • Seinfeld (TV, 1994 with Michael Richards)
  • Friends (TV, 1995, episode with Harry Shearer)
  • The Big Easy (13 episodes, 1996-97)
  • Maximum Bob (TV, 1998 - last recorded film appearance)
Screen Deaths:

Plump Fiction (1997) [Sister Ruth]: Machine-gunned, along with the rest of her gang (all disguised as nuns), by Paul Provenza while they're all arguing and holding weapons on each other in a warehouse (on top of Karla having been previously shot in the stomach by Julie Brown.) (Played for comic effect.)

In a Child's Name (1991 TV) [Teresa Taylor]: Beaten to death with dumbbells by Michael Ontkean. (Thanks to Drew