The actress died of a long, unspecified illness at her home in Los Angeles.
Piper Laurie, best known for her role as the incredibly controlling and devout mother in the 1976 horror film"Carrie," died Saturday. She was 91.Piper Laurie, best known for her role as the incredibly controlling and devout mother in the 1976 horror film “Carrie,” died Saturday. She was 91.that Laurie was “one of the most remarkable and versatile actresses of her day, a brilliant and creative mind, and a glorious human being.”Born Rosetta Jacobs on Jan.
Laurie continued to act in several projects, including the David Lynch cult-classic “Twin Peaks,” which earned her a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television in 1990.Laurie was nominated for her first Academy Award, for Best Actress, for the 1961 drama “The Hustler” starring Paul Newman.
“RIP Piper Laurie, an actor who so often made films a little stranger, bristlier and more interesting for her presence, and who deserved better than what the industry gave her at the peak of her powers,” “Sitting for an hour with Piper Laurie at last year’s TCM Classic Film Festival is a memory I will forever cherish,” remembered. “Her Oscar-nominated performance in Children of a Lesser God always moves me. I’m so sad to hear she passed but am grateful that her beautiful work will live on.”
Piper is survived by her daughter, Anne Grace Morgenstern, whom she adopted with ex-husband Joe Morgenstern, a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic who wrote for The Wall Street Journal.
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