Sondra Locke

Nacimiento
28 de mayo de 1944 · Shelbyville, Tennessee, Estados Unidos
Fallecimiento
3 de noviembre de 2018 · Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos (paro cardíaco)
Nombre de nacimiento
Sandra Louise Smith
Apodos
- Hobbit
- Snow White
- The Woman With No Name
- Mrs. Anderson
- Shana
Altura
1,63 m

Sharklike eyes
Often played women who aroused all the male characters around her
Sarcastic personality
Use of subterfuge in order to manipulate public perception, particularly with regard to her age
Career-long habit of playing parts for which she was 10 years too old

Former partner of Clint Eastwood (1975-1989). They never married.
News coverage of Locke's death was unprecedentedly low-key. After being kept secret six weeks, it got about 15 seconds on ABC News and a mere two sentences in People magazine (which she'd appeared twice on the cover of), and she was omitted from the Oscars' In Memoriam segment despite being a past nominee. Neither her widower nor exes gave a public statement. On top of that, her former friends, co-stars and colleagues (e.g. Louie Anderson, Richard Dreyfuss, Stacy Keach, Sally Kellerman, Ted Neeley, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, Cynthia Sikes Yorkin, Cicely Tyson) were tellingly silent on social media. In absence of any explanation, some have inferred that Locke requested the blackout in her final wishes, perhaps to keep her true age from being exposed. It's deducible, given Locke's vanity and history of deceiving the public, that she coordinated with end-of-life caregivers, mortuary staff etc, to ensure news of her own death would be suppressed as much as possible.
Co-starred with Clint Eastwood in six films: La gran pelea (1980), Bronco Billy (1980), Duro de pelar (1978), Ruta suicida (1977), El fuera de la ley (1976) and Impacto súbito (1983).
She left behind a reported fortune of $20 million.
Underwent a double mastectomy due to breast cancer.

In acting, you're subject to what everyone else does to you: the light someone else puts on you, the pace someone else sets for the scene, how someone else cuts you together, what they throw away and what they keep. Pretty soon you realize, 'This is great, but there must be something a little more.'
No matter how big actors get, they always somehow think, 'Today is it -- tomorrow everybody's going to wake up and hate me.'
As an actor, if there's a good role you can take it for the role's sake and not worry about the fact that the whole story doesn't seem to work. The actor won't get the blame for it. You'll do a good job and they'll say, 'The story stinks, but Sondra Locke was good in the part of whatever.' I look on acting as a great vacation now. You work a few weeks, get paid a lot of money and everyone pampers and takes care of you.
Everyone always wants to type you. With me, I started out as a vulnerable waif and for many years that's all anyone ever wanted me to play.
I've had some great parts, it's just that you're always looking for something that will take you in a different direction. People only see you in those boxes you've been most recently seen in. That way, they don't have to think or be creative.