Sue Lyon, Star of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Lolita,’ Dies at 73

Sue Lyon, the actress who at age 14 starred because the title character in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of “Lolita,” died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 73.

Lyon had been in failing well being for a while, her pal Phil Syracopoulos instructed The New York Times.

Born Suellyn Lyon in 1946 in Iowa, Lyon’s household moved to Los Angeles when she was a small youngster. As a young person, she started performing in small tv roles, together with an look on “The Loretta Young Show” that introduced her to Kubrick’s consideration. She was subsequently forged in “Lolita” at 14 partially as a result of the filmmakers aged the character up from 12, as in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. Upon launch, Lyon was catapulted to stardom, and he or she received the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer — Female for her efficiency, which had her performing alongside James Mason, Shelley Winters, and Peter Sellers, among the period’s largest stars. Lyon additionally recorded two songs for the movie — “Lolita Ya Ya” and “Turn Off the Moon.”

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Lyon labored steadily within the years instantly following “Lolita.” Her credit from the period additionally embody “The Night of the Iguana,” portraying a mission employee in China in “7 Women,” John Ford’s remaining movie, the lead actress within the 1967 comedy “The Flim-Flam Man,” a supporting function within the 1967 Frank Sinatra movie “Tony Rome, and a co-starring role in 1971’s “Evel Knievel.”

Her profession slowed down within the 1970s and he or she retired from performing after her remaining movie function within the cult hit “Alligator” in 1980.

She was married 5 occasions. Her first husband was actor-screenwriter Hampton Fancher, from 1963-65. She was married to Roland Harrison from 1971-72, Cotton Adamson from 1973-74, Edward Weathers from 1983-84, and Richard Rudman from 1985-2002). She is survived by her daughter with Harrison, Nona, in line with the Times.