 piper laurie (born january 22, 1932) is an american actress of stage and screen known for her roles in the films the hustler, carrie, and children of a lesser god, all of which brought her academy award nominations. she is also known for her performance as catherine martell in the cult television series twin peaks for which she won a golden globe award in 1991. ==early life== piper laurie was born as rosetta jacobs on january 22, 1932, in detroit, michigan, the younger daughter of charlotte sadie (nÃ©e alperin) and alfred jacobs, a furniture dealer. her grandparents were jewish immigrants, from poland on her father's side and russia on her mother's.piper laurie profile at yahoo!deseretnews.com she was delivered, according to her 2011 autobiography, learning to live out loud: a memoir (isbn 978-0-8230-2668-5), by a "male midwife ... in a one-bedroom walk-up on tyler street in detroit". alfred jacobs moved the family to los angeles, california in 1938, where she attended hebrew school, and to combat her shyness her parents provided her with weekly elocution lessons; this activity eventually led her to minor roles at nearby universal studios. for a large chunk of her early childhood, her parents placed her and her older sister in a children's home, which they both despised.http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-features/66227/why-i-had-reject-hollywood ==career== in 1949, rosetta jacobs signed a contract with universal studios, changing her screen name to piper laurie, by which she has been known professionally since. her breakout role was in louisa, with ronald reagan (whom she dated a few times before his marriage to nancy davis; she claimed in her autobiography that she lost her virginity to him).daniel bates, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061105/
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