Marta Heflin

Marta Heflin was an American actress known for her waifish appearance and for her work with director Robert Altman. Born in Washington, D.C., she started out in New York stage musicals in the 1960s and 1970s, including Fiddler on the Roof, Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, before moving to television in the soap opera The Doctors. Her screen work expanded with a supporting part as Quentin in the 1976 version of A Star Is Born, followed by Altman's A Wedding (1978). In A Perfect Couple (1979) she replaced Sandy Dennis as Sheila Shea. She also appeared in the TV movies Playing for Time (1980) and The Gentleman Bandit (1981), and in 1982 played Edna Louise in the Broadway production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, reprising it in Altman's film that year. She died in 2013.