Drew Stephens
Actor
Drew Stephens was an American businessman, known for being the former boyfriend of Karen Silkwood, a labor rights activist and whistleblower. He, along with Silkwood and their roommate and coworker Dusty Ellis, were contaminated with plutonium in 1974 while Silkwood and Ellis were employed at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Oklahoma. A dramatized account of their relationship is included in the 1983 Academy Award-nominated film SILKWOOD, in which Stephens is portrayed by Kurt Russell. Stephens died at age 45 in a plane crash.
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Movie6.9DramaLike most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.
Silkwood
1983 · 367 votes