Round 1: Tossup 12

The author of a biography of this actress titled Shadowland wrote a note to return a musician’s several calls about this actress on the same day that that musician died. This actress inspired the stage surname of a musician whose signature song is “Désenchantée” (“dayz-on-shawn-TAY”) and who dueted (15[1])with Sting on “Stolen Car.” It’s often thought that two musicians who thought their daughter’s sonogram resembled a kidney bean named her after this actress, though her true namesake is the guitarist of the (*) Vaselines. A song about this actress alludes to a volcano near her birthplace in declaring that she will “leave a blanket of ash on the ground” after “coming back as fire.” “I miss the comfort in being sad” is the chorus of a song about this actress’s psychiatric mistreatment on the album In Utero. For 10 points, what actress is the subject of a Nirvana song about “her revenge on Seattle”? ■END■

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