--Kim Darby Tribute--

Kim Darby (born July 8, 1948) is an American actress best known for her role as Mattie Ross in the film True Grit (1969).Darby began acting at age fifteen. Her first appearance was as a dancer in the film Bye Bye Birdie (1963). Among her best-known roles are True Grit, in which she played a fourteen-year-old when she was twenty-one years of age; Gunsmoke (1967 episodes "The Lure" and "Vengeance"); Bonanza (1967 episode "The Sure Thing"); The One and Only (1978); Better Off Dead (1985); and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).Darby's television roles included two appearances on the NBC series Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus; she was cast as Julie Dean in "To Lodge and Dislodge" (1963) and as Judy Wheeler in "The Silent Dissuaders" (1965). Darby also appeared about this time on The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, The Donna Reed Show, Ironside, and in the first season of Star Trek as the title character in "Miri".Darby also had the central role of Sally Farnham in the made-for-TV horror film Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973). Her subsequent television roles included guest appearances on Crazy Like a Fox, The Love Boat, The Streets of San Francisco, Riptide, and Becker.In 2014, she played Stacia Clairborne, a partially blind witness to a crime, in the episode "Prologue" of the show Perception.

Darby continues to make guest appearances on television and to make occasional films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Darby