Bettina Gilois, an Emmy-nominated writer who worked on the screenplays for the Kevin Costner film McFarland, USA and the Queen Latifah-starring HBO biopic Bessie, has died.
She was 58. Gilois, who was battling cancer, died Sunday in her sleep at her home in Los Angeles, her friend Joshua Plant toldThe Hollywood Reporter.
A native of Berlin who attended Columbia University, Gilois also co-wrote the 2006 featureGlory Road, about the history-making Texas Western college basketball team of the 1960s, andThe Lost Wife of Robert Durst, a 2017 Lifetime telefilm that starred Katharine McPhee.
She served as a producer onFire Birds(1990), starring Nicolas Cage, and Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole (1991). In 2015, Gilois received her Emmy nom for.
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