'Star Wars' Prequel Actress Trisha Noble Has Died
Actress Trisha Noble has passed away recently on January 23, 2021. The actress and singer reportedly died due to complications from mesothelioma, a type of cancer caused by the inhalation of asbestos fibers. She was 76 years old.
Among the Star Wars fanbase, Noble was best known for playing Jobal Naberrie, the mother of Senator Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman). She was originally set to appear in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. However, her role was cut from the final cut theatrical release of the movie, but was included in the deleted scenes section on the DVD release. She also appeared as Jobal Naberrie in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith during the funeral proceedings of Amidala at the end of the film in a nonspeaking role.
The family dynamic subplots with Padme and her kin, along with Anakin at her Naboo villa, was a big miss opportunity for the audience to get to know the backstory of Luke and Leia’s extended family members. George Lucas created several subplots involving Padmé Amidala. However, he ultimately decided to abandon them in the final cut as he felt it was more important to dedicate time to Anakin's character development.
Born Patricia Ann Ruth Noble, the Star Wars star got her start as a teenage pop singer in the 1960s, appearing on Australian shows like Bandstand. In November 1961, she released her hit single "Good Looking Boy," which reached the Top 10 in Melbourne and Top 20 in Sydney, and it went on to be her most successful hit. At the 1961 Logie Awards, she won the Best Female Singer of the Year award from TV Week. By the time 1962 came about, she moved to the United Kingdom and continued her singing career by releasing singles there.
Throughout the '60s, she continued her singing career before adopting Trisha Noble as her stage name in 1967 to distance herself from her singing career. She moved to the United States to begin a career in acting. Her earliest television credits include The Mary Tyler Moore Show, where she played a female reporter, Columbo, where she meets the murderer in an art gallery, and Buck Rogers as Sabrina, a superhuman thief in the episode "Cruise Ship to the Stars."
Noble also appeared in the 1977 television miniseries The Rhinemann Exchange and Testimony of Two Men.
In the 1980s, Noble played the role of an heiress in the mystery comedy film The Private Eyes starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts, and she was cast in the role of Detective Rosie Johnson on the short-lived police drama Strike Force on ABC in 1981–82.
Noble returned to Australia in 1983 because her father, Buster, was seriously ill. During her time back in Australia, she re-established a career as a theatrical actress, in addition to appearing in the television miniseries Body Business.
Her most recent acting credit was 2017's Ladies in Black.
Noble was preceded in death by her parents, comedian Clarence "Buster" Noble and singer Helen De Pau, and survived by her son Patrick Mackenzie.
All of us at Culture Slate give out our dearest condolences to Trisha's friends and family.
Source(s): CinemaBlend, Wikipedia