Elizabeth Franz has died.
Elizabeth Franz useless at 84
The Tony Award profitable actress – who was finest recognized for her position within the 1999 Broadway revival of Loss of life of a Salesman – has handed away on the age of 84 following a battle with most cancers, her husband, screenwriter Christopher Pelham, informed The New York Occasions.
She handed away at her house in Woodbury, Connecticut on November 4, together with her husband explaining she had a “extreme response” to the medicine that have been used to deal with her sickness.
Elizabeth received the Tony Award for Finest Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Linda Loman within the Fiftieth-anniversary Broadway manufacturing of Arthur Miller’s play.
She additionally reprised the position in a 2000 TV adaptation of Loss of life of a Salesman, for which she earned an Emmy nomination.
Miller was a fan of her portrayal, telling The New York Occasions in 1999 that Franz: “has found within the position the fundamental underlying highly effective protectiveness, which comes out as fury, and that previously, in very efficiency I do know of, was merely washed out”.
Franz was born in Akron, Ohio on June 18, 1941.
She was impressed to develop into an actress after watching Loretta Younger within the 1947 film The Bishop’s Spouse.
She earned Tony nominations in 1983 and 2002 for her roles in Neil Simon’s Brighton Seashore Memoirs and the Morning’s at Seven revival.
She additionally received an Obie Award in 1980 for her efficiency because the strict nun in Christopher Durang’s Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You.
Franz appeared on cleaning soap operas As The World Turns and One other World, together with TV reveals Roseanne, Gilmore Women, Regulation Order, Chilly Case, Pricey John, and Judging Amy.
She is survived by her husband and her brother, Joe.
