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name: "Ronee Blakley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ronee-blakley"
roles: ["Actor","Composer"]
born: "24 August 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T10:12:18.985868+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ronee Blakley

Actor and composer. Born 24 August 1945 in Nampa, Idaho, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Composer
- **Born:** 24 August 1945, Nampa, Idaho, USA
- **Active:** 1975–1984
- **Also known as:** Ronnie Blake, Roneé Blakley

## Biography

Ronee Blakley is an American actress, singer, songwriter, composer, producer and director. Born in Nampa, Idaho, she began performing as a singer-songwriter in clubs before her film debut.

She is best known for playing Barbara Jean in Robert Altman's *Nashville* (1975), a role for which she won a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and received an Academy Award nomination; she also contributed several songs to the film. Blakley later played Marge Thompson in *A Nightmare on Elm Street* (1984) and appeared in *The Driver* (1978).

Her other credits include work in music documentaries and films such as *Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese* (2019). She was briefly married to director Wim Wenders.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nashville* (1975), Fi1m 89, as Barbara Jean — [page](https://film.one/film/nashville.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *A Nightmare on Elm Street* (1984), Actor

## Also known for

- *The Driver* (1978), The Connection
- *A Return to Salem's Lot* (1987), Sally
- *The Love Boat* (1977), Sally Carter
- *Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese* (2019), The Ingenue
- *Tales from the Darkside* (1984), Cassie Pines

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