Actress Michelle Nicastro, Soap star, "When Harry met Sally," & Eponine dies at 50
November 11, 2010 4:37 AM   Subscribe

Michelle Nicastro dies at 50 Actress Michelle Nicastro died recently of cancer at age 50. She starred in "Santa Barbara," played Amanda in "When Harry Met Sally," and was Eponine in the Los Angeles Production of "Les Miserables" in 1988.
posted by randomkeystrike (13 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Not a big deal, randomkeystrike, but if there's gonna be an obit post for Nicastro it might need to be something with more meat and context than a short Variety blurb. -- cortex



 
I won't have what she's having.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 4:50 AM on November 11, 2010


I'm sorry, but I don't see this as FPP. Sad she died, but not enough meat here.
posted by glaucon at 5:15 AM on November 11, 2010


We'll have to look up in the sky to see Callisto now.

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posted by Smart Dalek at 5:18 AM on November 11, 2010


but, but, but, it was a first post
posted by efalk at 5:28 AM on November 11, 2010


If she had played 'Harry' or 'Sally' or if I watched soaps, or lived in LA...then maybe I would have heard of her.

As it is, a slightly meh .
posted by sfts2 at 5:29 AM on November 11, 2010


perhaps eponysterical?
posted by sfts2 at 5:30 AM on November 11, 2010 [1 favorite]


but, but, but, it was a first post posted by efalk

Um. Gulp.

Sorry randomkeystrike. I'm flagging my own comment now.
posted by glaucon at 5:34 AM on November 11, 2010


Somehow I only knew her as the speaking voice of Princess Odette in the Swan Princess movies, which my sister and I were obsessed with as little girls. How awful that she's died so very young.

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posted by two or three cars parked under the stars at 5:39 AM on November 11, 2010


Sad, but several people with achievements (or even simple fame) much greater than hers pass away each day, so I don't really see the point. And it's a very thin point anyhow.
posted by Dee Xtrovert at 5:53 AM on November 11, 2010


Post, I mean, in that last clause. Not point.
posted by Dee Xtrovert at 5:54 AM on November 11, 2010


Michelle Nicastro was A Very Big Deal when I was an undergrad at Northwestern in the early 1980s. She was the perennial star of the Waa-Mu Show and it was just accepted as fact that she was going to be yet another star in the pantheon of famous actors and actressess that went to NU. When her first big movie turned out to be a break dancing film starring Lorenzo Lamas, there was a discernible sense of let-down among all the theater majors I knew. And she never really did fulfill the promise that she seemed to have, although she absolutely ended up as a credible working actress.

I agree that this particular obit thread is a little too obscure for MeFi in general, but among people I know, I'm sure it has been noted as a particularly poignant milestone.
posted by briank at 6:46 AM on November 11, 2010


We have certainly had obits for people one could reasonably argue are more obscure. As long as this one's here, though, complaints that this person wasn't really that important should probably go somewhere else, in the interest of good taste and this sort of thing.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 6:58 AM on November 11, 2010 [6 favorites]


I don;t want to threadshit - I'm sure she was a nice lady and any death is sad - but the star of an American soap opera, a twenty-one year old film and a local theatre production is not going to ring any bells with many.

By the way, today is Armistice Day in the UK, where we remember the dead from armed conflict.
posted by mippy at 7:28 AM on November 11, 2010


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