Name | Sondra Locke |
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Caption | Sondra Locke at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival |
Birth place | Shelbyville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress, singer, director |
Yearsactive | 1968–1999 |
Spouse | Gordon Anderson (1967–present) (separated) |
Domesticpartner | Clint Eastwood (1975–1989) |
She made her film debut in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. From 1976 to 1983, she appeared in six films with then partner Clint Eastwood, starting with The Outlaw Josey Wales, and ending with the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact, where she played a serial killer seeking revenge for a past rape.
Locke got a career boost in 1976 when she played a pioneer woman opposite Clint Eastwood in the western classic The Outlaw Josey Wales. With Eastwood as her leading man, Locke went on to star in a number of blockbuster hits. Her notable film roles include playing a foul-mouthed prostitute in the action film The Gauntlet and a spoiled heiress who joins a traveling Wild West show in Bronco Billy. She played a country singer in the comedy Every Which Way But Loose, which was the second-highest grossing film of 1978. She reprised her role in the sequel, Any Which Way You Can, in 1980. She starred as a revenge-seeking murderess in 1983's Sudden Impact, which became the most successful of the Dirty Harry film franchise.
Locke has recorded several songs, including some for the Which Way films. At one point, she was trying to get a record contract. Locke made her directing debut in 1986 with the comedy Ratboy and later directed the thriller Impulse in 1990. Both films were financed by Eastwood. Afterwards, her film work was infrequent. She directed the made-for-television movie Death in Small Doses and the independent film Do Me A Favor. After 13 years away from acting, she returned in two little-seen independent films in 1999. Locke hasn't worked in the film industry since then. She was the inspiration for the 2005 film Our Very Own, which focuses on five southern teenagers from her native hometown who celebrate Locke's success.
In 1997 she published an autobiography titled The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly.
In 2001, Locke purchased a large, six-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills, an affluent and exclusive neighborhood of Los Angeles, California in the southeastern Santa Monica Mountains.
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