Biography
After limited stage experience, 19-year-old Kathleen Quinlan made her film debut in
American Graffiti. The first stage of her movie career peaked with the starring role as a schizophrenic in
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977). She then spent most of the 1980s in secondary roles. Kathleen Quinlan reentered the consciousness of the American filmgoing public with her Oscar-nominated performance as Mrs. James Lovell in
Apollo 13 (1995), directed by her
American Graffiti co-star
Ron Howard. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide