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Other Topics => Entertainment - Movies / TV / Books => Topic started by: BWilli on March 11, 2005, 10:18:50 am
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from Yahoo.com
Nicole DeHuff, an actress who played Teri Polo's sister in Meet the Parents, has died of causes related to pneumonia. She was 30.
The actress died Feb. 16 in Hollywood, four days after she reportedly checked into a Los Angeles hospital, was misdiagnosed and sent home with orders to take Tylenol.
When her condition worsened, she returned to the hospital and was prescribed antibiotics for bronchitis and again sent home. Two days later, paramedics were called to her home after she collapsed, gasping for breath. By the time she reached the hospital, she was unconscious and passed away soon after.
Meet the Parents marked DeHuff's feature-film debut. She played Deborah Byrnes, the sister whose wedding prompts Gaylord "Greg" Focker's (Ben Stiller) visit to girlfriend Pam Byrne's (Polo) childhood home to attend the ceremony and, as suggested by the title, meet the parents. Hilarity ensues.
In one of the movie's most memorable scenes, a Speedo-clad Stiller spikes a volleyball into DeHuff's face, breaking the bride-to-be's nose and cementing his own unpopularity.
DeHuff also appeared in 2004's Suspect Zero with Ben Kingsley and in an independent film called Killing Cinderella.
She also starred in the as yet unreleased independent film Unbeatable Harold, directed by her husband, Ari Palitz, and costarring Dylan McDermott and Gordon Michaels.
On the small screen, DeHuff had roles in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Court, The Practice, Dragnet, Without a Trace and Monk. She also appeared in the TV movie See Arnold Run.
A native of Oklahoma, DeHuff graduated from the Carnegie Mellon University acting program.
She is survived by Palitz, her husband of four years, as well as her sister, her mother and her father.
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She hasn't been in many films, but it's really sad that her life was cut so short.
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aww that is soo sad, and she died so young :(
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that's terrible :(
I cant remember who she is though, havent seen that movie in ages.
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that's terrible :(
I cant remember who she is though, havent seen that movie in ages.
she's the one who gets it in the face with the volleyball by Ben Stiller. Probably one of the most memorable scenes in the movie.
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That is so terribly sad.
I agree, that was probably one of the most memorable scenes in Meet the parents.
I feel so sorry for her family :(
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that is absurd, and all because of the hospitals incompetence. pneumonia is not a common life threatening illness if handled appropriately. That is so horrible that her life was cut short because she was not treated with the proper care.
-katia
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She probably had an HMO or no insurance. she'd probably be alive if she were Canadian. We really need nationwide health care.
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She probably had an HMO or no insurance. she'd probably be alive if she were Canadian. We really need nationwide health care.
are you being serious? if so, are you crazy?
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That's so sad. Friends of mine have gone very early but it doesn't make it any less horrible to hear about it elsewhere
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Thats really sad... All because she was misdiagnosed :?
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Yeah the doctor would prolly be liable under the tort of negligence regarding a duty of care to which she was owed by him, that's where he fell short
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that's horrible!! She was so young....