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Paula E. Sheppard (actress who played Alice) what happened to her?


I see she was in Liquid Sky, but that's all I can find about her. Anyone knows?

thanks!

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"In 1981 Paula began working on Slava Tsukerman’s Liquid Sky. It was released the following year and became a cult classic. Paula went on to do a low budget, medieval musical fantasy called Tam Lin. (This is not the 1972 Roddy McDowell version) Tam Lin was shot on the campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Filming on this project began in the autumn of 1981 and was completed in 1982. Tam Lin was never released commercially, so it is not available to the public. This is what my source had to say in regards to the film and Paula’s acting career:

"Paula did not have a speaking role, she played a lady-in-waiting to a princess who has to rescue a knight from a sorceress' spell. Paula had a difficult time with her career after that, as she found it impossible to get other movie roles. She auditioned a number of times for the producers and director of the movie The Clan of the Cave Bear which starred Daryl Hannah, but in the end she did not get the role. I believe around that time she decided to abandon her acting career. Paula and her boyfriend moved to Seattle, Washington in the late 1980s and got married there."

On October 5, 2001 Paula's older sister, Laura, posted to our very own message board! She informs us that Paula is very much alive and "nurturing a career of a different kind, raising a beautiful, brilliant, lovely daughter." She also dispels a rumor about Paula which appeared in a Spring 2000 magazine interview with the director of "Liquid Sky.""

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130131053915AA2JguD

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Thanks so much for the info because I wondered what ever happened to her too.
Amazing that Paula did not get any more parts.
She must have had a very ineffective Agent!
But at least she is happy now & quite ALIVE (& not dead as many rumors stated.)
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Glad I could help. (:

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There are many people who give acting a try (especially those who are young) and just don't like it.

"Never let them catch you acting!" (Lillian Gish)

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What was the rumor about Paula during Vanilla Sky??

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