Valerie Perrine, 'Superman' Actress and 'Lenny' Oscar Nominee, Dies at 82 [View all]

Valerie Perrine, the former Las Vegas showgirl who earned a best actress Oscar nomination for portraying Lenny Bruce’s drug-addicted stripper wife in Lenny and played Lex Luthor’s secretary in a pair of Superman films, died Monday. She was 82.

Perrine’s death at her home in Beverly Hills was announced by friend and soulmate Stacey Souther. She was diagnosed in 2015 with Parkinson’s disease, which eventually robbed her of her mobility and much of her ability to eat and speak.

Valerie Perrine, the former Las Vegas showgirl who earned a best actress Oscar nomination for portraying Lenny Bruce’s drug-addicted stripper wife in Lenny and played Lex Luthor’s secretary in a pair of Superman films, died Monday. She was 82.

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The actress did comedy and drama with equal fervor, also starring as the love interest of Jeff Bridges’ NASCAR driver Junior Johnson in Lamont Johnson’s The Last American Hero (1973) and as the soon-to-be ex of champion rodeo rider Robert Redford‘s character in Sydney Pollack’s The Electric Horseman (1979).

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