Many Democrats - and some Republicans - have said they believe Trump put Whitaker in the job to try to stop, or at least limit, the investigation that special counsel Robert S. Whitaker’s appointment is not consistent with the Appointments Clause of the Constitution,” said John Yoo, a UC Berkeley law professor who worked in the Justice Department under President George W. “I don’t see how he can hold that office. Jeff Sessions, replacing him with Matthew Whitaker doesn’t pass constitutional muster, they say. President Trump’s decision to name as acting attorney general a little-known political appointee who has never been confirmed by the Senate has come under increasing criticism by legal scholars on both the right and left who say the appointment is unconstitutional.Īlthough Trump clearly had the authority to fire Atty.
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Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Filmography Film YearĪ Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story She was also married briefly to musician and screenwriter Jay Telfer and then wed actor Michael MacRae in 1995. Before divorcing in 1980, the couple had two sons, Uri (b. Personal life īedelia married scriptwriter Ken Luber on April 24, 1969. In 2019, she guest starred on the Netflix series What/If.
In 2017, she appeared in season 2 of the TV series Designated Survivor, and in two Hallmark movies. īedelia starred in the NBC drama series Parenthood (2010-2015) as the family matriarch, Camille Braverman. She later guest-starred in Big Love and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and starred opposite Rue McClanahan and Olivia Newton-John in the 2008 sitcom Sordid Lives: The Series. Kate McCafferty in the Lifetime television drama series The Division. From 2001 to 2004, Bedelia starred as Capt.
She played a number of leading roles in television films and miniseries, such as Switched at Birth, A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story, Her Costly Affair, and Picnic. She was nominated for Emmy Awards for her performance in the Showtime anthology series Fallen Angels (1993) and for the leading role in the made-for-television movie Locked in Silence (1999). īedelia appeared in two Stephen King screen adaptations: Salem's Lot (1979) and Needful Things (1993). Other well-known performances include her portrayals of Holly Gennero McClane, the wife of Bruce Willis's character John McClane in Die Hard (1988) and Die Hard 2 (1990), and of Barbara Sabich, the wife of Harrison Ford's character in Presumed Innocent (1990). In 1984, Bedelia received critical acclaim and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her starring role in Heart Like a Wheel (1983), as drag racer Shirley Muldowney. On television she played the leading role in the short-lived ABC drama series, The New Land (1974). īedelia in the made-for-TV film Message to My Daughter (1973)īedelia made her film debut in The Gypsy Moths in 1969 later that year she attracted attention as the pregnant marathon dancer in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? She starred in the comedy Lovers and Other Strangers (1970), had dramatic roles in The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie (1972) and Between Friends (1973), and appeared opposite Richard Dreyfuss in the comedy The Big Fix (1978). She also worked on Broadway, where she debuted supporting Patty Duke in 1962, in Isle of Children, and won a Theatre World Award for playing the lead of in My Sweet Charlie, in 1966. From 1961 to 1967, Bedelia was a regular on the CBS soap opera Love of Life, portraying Sandy Porter.
Her only dancing role onscreen was that of Clara in the Playhouse 90 television production of the George Balanchine Nutcracker (1958).
Career īefore becoming an actress, Bedelia studied ballet and appeared in a few productions with the New York City Ballet, including The Nutcracker. She received her acting training at HB Studio. īedelia studied dance in her youth, at School of American Ballet. She is the aunt of actors Macaulay, Kieran, and Rory Culkin. She has two brothers, one of whom is actor Kit Culkin, and a sister, Candice Culkin. Her mother died when she was 14 and her father, "who had always had ulcers", died shortly afterward. She was born in a difficult financial period when her father's firm went bankrupt, and they lived in "a cold-water tenement flat". Bedelia was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City, the daughter of Marian Ethel (née Wagner), a writer and editor, and Philip Harley Culkin, who was in public relations and 50 years old at the time.