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Actress Piper Laurie poses on the New York Herald Tribune in New York Metropolis on December 28, 1961.
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Piper Laurie, the celebrated actress identified for her chilling portrayal of the overbearingly non secular mom in “Carrie” and for enjoying Paul Newman’s down-in-the-dumps girlfriend in “The Hustler,” has died at 91, her supervisor stated.
Laurie died early Saturday in Los Angeles, her supervisor, Marion Rosenberg, confirmed to CNN. No reason behind loss of life was supplied.
Laurie might be remembered as “one of many best actresses of her technology and an excellent human being,” Rosenberg stated.
Turner Traditional Motion pictures, which, like CNN, is a part of Warner Brothers Discovery, referred to as Laurie “some of the celebrated and formidable actresses of the final half-century.” The community stated she “gave full-blooded performances as flawed, typically ferocious girls.”
Critics and colleagues took be aware: Laurie acquired Academy Award nominations for her riveting performances in “The Hustler” and “Carrie.” She was additionally nominated for an Oscar for enjoying a remorseful mom in “Youngsters of a Lesser God” and acquired a Golden Globe Award for her function in tv’s “Twin Peaks.”
Born as Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit in 1932, she assumed the identify Piper Laurie on the urging of a supervisor when she started professionally performing as a teen, she wrote in her memoir, “Studying to Reside Out Loud.”
After beginning a contract with Common-Worldwide (now Common Studios) at age 18, Laurie starred reverse actors together with Ronald Reagan, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis and Newman.
She took a 15-year hiatus from Hollywood after breaking her contract within the mid Nineteen Fifties, however later returned to ship a tormenting portrayal of the fanatically evangelical mom in “Carrie.”