Melinda Ruth Dillon was an American actress famous for her roles that got her a lot of award nominations playing Honey in Broadway’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Jillian Guiler a mother seeking her alien-abducted son in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Mother Parker the doting matriarch in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. Dillon studied acting at DePaul University in Chicago, before she was famous she worked at The Second City as an improvisational comedian and stage actress. H... moreMelinda Ruth Dillon was an American actress famous for her roles that got her a lot of award nominations playing Honey in Broadway’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Jillian Guiler a mother seeking her alien-abducted son in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Mother Parker the doting matriarch in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. Dillon studied acting at DePaul University in Chicago, before she was famous she worked at The Second City as an improvisational comedian and stage actress. Her first major role was on Broadway in the original 1962 Broadway production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award. From then she went on to have a successful career as a supporting actress in numerous television shows and movies for over 50 years. Dillon was married to actor Richard Libertini and together they had a son. She is survived by a son.
