The actress you're thinking of is probably Rebecca Schaeffer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer I

The actress you're thinking of is probably Rebecca Schaeffer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer I read about her in Gavin de Becker's The Gift of Fear, which incidentally is a pretty good book about such things. (de Becker is apparently the guy you call if you're a Hollywood star who gets a death threat -- protecting famous people is his company's business. And his published opinion is pretty much the same as yours: All famous people will get threats once they become famous enough, and the most famous people you can name have probably got dozens of stalkers of one sort or another.)