{"id":2091352,"date":"2025-10-14T21:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2091352"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:51:07","slug":"stage-and-screen-vet-kathleen-chalfant-seeks-historic-best-actress-oscar-attention-with-venice-player-familiar-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stage-and-screen-vet-kathleen-chalfant-seeks-historic-best-actress-oscar-attention-with-venice-player-familiar-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage and Screen Vet Kathleen Chalfant Seeks Historic Best Actress Oscar Attention With Venice Player \u2018Familiar Touch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kathleen Chalfant<\/a> \u2013 a venerated stage actress with memorable turns in film and television \u2013 is officially entering the gauntlet for this year\u2019s best actress prize.<\/p>\n

Star of \u201cThe Affair<\/a>\u201d and \u201cHouse of Cards<\/a>,\u201d Chalfant has been a recognizable favorite for decades. However, her turn in this year\u2019s Venice Film Festival player \u201cFamiliar Touch<\/a>\u201d has piqued Academy members\u2019 interest in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Chalfant, 80, plays Ruth, a retired chef grappling with cognitive decline, in the project from writer-director Sarah Friedland<\/a>. Overwhelmingly positive reviews out of Venice praised Chalfant for a career-best performance, with critics finding her work as subtle as it was affecting.<\/p>\n

\u201cChalfant\u2019s performance never treats Ruth as either a stooge or a figure of tragedy,\u201d said Guy Lodge<\/a> in his Venice review for Variety. \u201cMost celebrated for her work in theater, the actor limns the character\u2019s shifting states of consciousness with graceful precision, her face at times…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kathleen Chalfant \u2013 a venerated stage actress with memorable turns in film and television \u2013 is officially entering the gauntlet for this year\u2019s best actress prize. Star of \u201cThe Affair\u201d and \u201cHouse of Cards,\u201d Chalfant has been a recognizable favorite for decades. However, her turn in this year\u2019s Venice Film Festival player \u201cFamiliar Touch\u201d has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2091353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2091352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Stage-and-Screen-Vet-Kathleen-Chalfant-Seeks-Historic-Best-Actress.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091354,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091352\/revisions\/2091354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2091353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}