Nicole DeHuff, an actress who played Teri Polo's sister in Meet the Parents, has died of causes related to pneumonia. She was 30.Posted on 03/11/2005 12:23:10 PM PST by crushelits
Nicole DeHuff, an actress who played Teri Polo's sister in Meet the Parents, has died of causes related to pneumonia. She was 30.
The actress died Feb. 16 in Hollywood, four days after she reportedly checked into a Los Angeles hospital, was misdiagnosed and sent home with orders to take Tylenol.
When her condition worsened, she returned to the hospital and was prescribed antibiotics for bronchitis and again sent home. Two days later, paramedics were called to her home after she collapsed, gasping for breath. By the time she reached the hospital, she was unconscious and passed away soon after.
Meet the Parents marked DeHuff's feature-film debut. She played Deborah Byrnes, the sister whose wedding prompts Gaylord "Greg" Focker's (Ben Stiller) visit to girlfriend Pam Byrne's (Polo) childhood home to attend the ceremony and, as suggested by the title, meet the parents. Hilarity ensues.
In one of the movie's most memorable scenes, a Speedo-clad Stiller spikes a volleyball into DeHuff's face, breaking the bride-to-be's nose and cementing his own unpopularity.
DeHuff also appeared in 2004's Suspect Zero with Ben Kingsley and in an independent film called Killing Cinderella.
She also starred in the as yet unreleased independent film Unbeatable Harold, directed by her husband, Ari Palitz, and costarring Dylan McDermott and Gordon Michaels.
On the small screen, DeHuff had roles in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Court, The Practice, Dragnet, Without a Trace and Monk. She also appeared in the TV movie See Arnold Run.
A native of Oklahoma, DeHuff graduated from the Carnegie Mellon University acting program.
She is survived by Palitz, her husband of four years, as well as her sister, her mother and her father.
I don't know, but my guess is there aren't 3,000,000 trial lawyers in those places. Just a guess...
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Would you like to post those statistics?
It does explain, however, why they're working so hard to cap lawsuits.
I'm always curious how, in a large media center like Los Angeles, a young celebrity (albeit a minor one) can die and there is no story about it for nearly a month.
If it was worth AP's time to run an obit, why was it not worth their time for three weeks?
Shame on the hospital? Perhaps, but call me a contrarian: Isn't it difficult to treat and even diagnose this condition?
Also, I'll mention the unmentionable: Were their "lifestyle" issues at play here? I mean...30 years old?
or is everyone just an "actor" out there?<<
I am not a doctor but I play one on TV<<
. . .and of course "I'm not a doctor, but I did stay at "Holiday Inn" last night.
It's still a darn shame, I say.
Nope, you can go find them
On my relapse of the flu I started having throat/bronchial spasms after I took my inhaler. It's very scary but I've had them before so toughed it out.
Well I', not a doctor but I play one on TV. Here take two of these and call me in the morning.
I don't think so - his heart condition was rare and apparently hard to detect - and he died almost instantly. I could be wrong.
I remember a few years ago I developed a cough that went to pneumonia when I saw my doctor 2 days later.
Sad....and she was real cute.
Pneumonia was the number 1 cause of death one hundred years ago and is now rare except in the very aged. Infectious diseases are causes of death now. Sad case but let's not get carried away with criticism of our system.
It didn't just happen to Hunter ping.
If there's no tort reform, there won't be any money to compensate the injured--and the lawyers will just go on to greener pastures. If you want to shut down the hospital, fine, that'll show those insurance companies who's boss.
The details are sketchy--she deteriorated over four days. This sounds a little like the Kermit puppet guy. You'd be surprised how many people die from simple cold viruses--even non-VIPs and the non-beautiful!
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