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'Raging Bull' actress dies

LOS ANGELES — Actress Theresa Saldana, 61, known for movies including “Raging Bull” and nominated for a Golden Globe for her work on TV’s “The Commish,” has died after an illness, a family member said. It was her role in Martin Scorsese’s 1980 “Raging Bull” that really seemed to signal her emergence. She played the wife of Joe Pesci’s character.

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