She was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in An Unmarried Woman in 1978, and Starting Over, opposite Burt Reynolds the following year.
Her husband, the playwright David Rabe said she died of leukemia at home in Connecticut. She had lived with the disease more than 20 years.
Their TV appearances include playing the mother in the series Ally McBeal.
played in an unmarried woman Clayburgh Erica, a wife and mother whose husband leaves her for a younger woman and then begins a relationship with an artist played by Alan Bates.
Cannes best actress
"There was virtually nothing to do for women on the screen in the 1950s and 1960s," Clayburgh said in an interview with Associated Press in promoting An Unmarried Woman in 1978.
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I do best with characters who are falling apart at the seams. "- Jill Clayburgh
"Sure, Marilyn Monroe was great, but they had to play a one-sided character, a vulnerable sex objects. It was a real fantasy."
In another interview with The New York Times in 1982, she commented to play their roles, women face the challenges of life: "I think people look at me and they think I'm a lady like character," she said. "But it's not what I do best. I am best with characters that fall apart at the seams."
Clayburgh won awards for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance in An Unmarried Woman.
She also received an Emmy nomination for her role playing a prostitute in the 1975 TV-movie Hustling and in 2005 for her role in Nip / Tuck. She also appeared in the TV series Dirty Sexy Money.
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Her last film, bridesmaids, has not yet been released.
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