Valerie Perrine, Screen Siren Who Won Critical Acclaim, Dies at 82

Known early on for skin-baring temptress roles, she later earned rave reviews, a Cannes award and an Oscar nomination for her performance in the Lenny Bruce biopic “Lenny.”Valerie Perrine in “Malibu,” a 1983 television movie on ABC. “Unlike most sex symbols of the past,” one critic wrote, she “has almost always been singled out by the critics for her acting rather than her anatomy.”