"The Commish" Actress Theresa Saldana 1954-2016 Memorial Video
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- Theresa Saldana (August 20, 1954 - June 6, 2016) was an American actress and author. She is known for her role as Rachel Scali, the wife of Police Commissioner Tony Scali, in the 1990s television series The Commish, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, in 1994. Major film roles include the part of 'Lenore La Motta,' the wife of Joe Pesci's character, in the 1980 feature film Raging Bull and Robert Zemeckis's Beatlemania ensemble I Wanna Hold Your Hand. She was also known for raising public awareness of the crime of stalking, after surviving a murder attempt by an obsessed fan in 1982.
Saldana was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was adopted at five days old by Divina and Tony Saldana, a family of Puerto Rican and Italian-American heritage.
Saldana took dance lessons as a child. However, after suffering a serious shoulder injury while part of a tumbling team she enrolled in acting classes at age 12. After being spotted by a talent scout while performing in an Off Broadway musical called The New York City Street Show in 1977 she was cast in the 1978 film Nunzio.
On March 15, 1982, Saldana was the stalking victim of Arthur Richard Jackson, a 46-year-old drifter from Aberdeen. Jackson became attracted to Saldana after seeing her in the 1980 films Defiance and Raging Bull. He obtained Saldana's address by hiring a private investigator to obtain the unlisted phone number of Saldana's mother. Jackson then called Saldana's mother and posed as Martin Scorsese's assistant, saying he needed Saldana's residential address in order to contact her for replacing an actress in a film role in Europe.
Jackson approached Saldana in front of her West Hollywood residence in broad daylight and stabbed her in the torso 10 times with a 5½-inch knife, nearly killing her. His attack was so fierce that the blade bent. Although there were many nearby onlookers, the attack was only interrupted when delivery man Jeff Fenn intervened after hearing her cries, rushed from the second floor of an apartment building, and subdued Jackson. Saldana recovered after four hours of surgery and a four-month hospital stay at the Motion Picture Hospital. She relived the incident in the made-for-TV movie Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story and again in an episode of Hunter.
Jackson served almost 14 years in prison for the assault and making subsequent threats against Saldana and her rescuer while in prison. He was then extradited to the United Kingdom in 1996 to be tried for a 1966 robbery and murder. Jackson (who once saw himself as "the benevolent angel of death") was found not guilty by diminished responsibility in 1997 and committed to a British psychiatric hospital, where he died of heart failure in 2004 at age 68.
Jackson's method to find and approach Saldana inspired stalker Robert John Bardo to hire a private investigator to contact Rebecca Schaeffer, a young actress whom he subsequently murdered, also in West Hollywood, in 1989.
Following her long recovery, Saldana founded the Victims for Victims organization and participated in lobbying for the 1990 anti-stalking law and the 1994 Driver's Privacy Protection Act, both of which came into being partly as a consequence of the attack. The experience also inspired Saldana to play herself in the television movie Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story, and she authored the book Beyond Survival, a memoir of her experiences after being attacked.
Saldana supported awareness for The Jazz Tap Ensemble, of which her daughter is a member. The group raises money for training gifted teenage dancers.
Saldana died at age 61 on June 6, 2016, following her hospitalization for pneumonia [9] at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Michael Chiklis, who played Saldana's husband on The Commish, wrote that it was "painful to hear the news." - Розваги
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RIP Theresa, I Didn't To See You Play In Any Of Your Rolls. But There Is None Better Than The Commish! 💓💓💓💓
I did not know she had died! R.I.P. Theresa! You were a beautiful good actress!
I knew Theresa years ago when I lived in LA, we were friends. I gave her her first portable computer, tiny thing that literally ran on microtapes for memory, that's how long ago it was. We'd lost touch, and I've only recently found out she'd died. Shocked and really saddened - she was my age. Lovely, lovely woman.
Great video. Can't say the same for the backgound music. Rest in Peace Mrs. Slaldana. Watched a few of her shows.
Didn't know she had passed. Been watching reruns of The Commish. Thought I would look her up was shocked and saddened by the news.
I remember her when I was a child. She was a tough lady that didn't let a cruel act against her make her quit. She kept going.
Damn never new she had passed away RIP Beautiful😢❤
Same. So saddened! Rest Easy Theresa. 😥💕
Aw...just...aw
...that made me sad. t respect her and looked for her movie with Tom Skerritt. Found out this, instead. THERESA YOU YET LIVE, LOVE from ♥️♥️♦️ All of US!
Don't you read newspapers?
This is heartbreaking. I can't believe it took me 4 years to find out that she died and in such a horrific way on top of it all.
It wasn't horrific. She died at 61 of pneumonia. At least she wasn't killed by that asshole, who is burning in hell now.
You don't read newspapers or anything like that?
What a great lady
💙🔥💙 #RIPTheresaSaldana
OMG say it ain't so :-( RIP Rachel Scali.
It goes without saying:
Only The Strong Survive!!!
And for Theresa Saldana, she did just more than that.
After hearing the stories of how a deranged stalker, went through devious means, to find her, & tried to kill her.
God was with Ms. Saldana that day.
As far as her attacker goes, he's now going to answer to God, for his misdeeds here, as well as the what he did back home in England.
Theresa Saldana was a tough woman, through & through, but she was still a lady, with a lot of class.
RIP Theresa Saldana.
The attacker died in 2004 in a hospital. He never got out. Now he's burning in hell while Theresa is in heaven.
I wonder why she stopped acting 12 years before she passed away? Health reasons due to that maniac who attacked her?