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2023-10-15 08:17:11

Piper Laurie died at the age of 91. The picture shows the actress in one of her star roles as the scheming Catherine Martell in the TV series “Twin Peaks”.

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Piper Laurie has died at the age of 91. The actress became known for her appearances in “Carrie: Satan’s Youngest Daughter” and “Twin Peaks”. Laurie was nominated for an Oscar three times.

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Hollywood actress Piper Laurie has died at the age of 91. Her star roles include her appearances in “Sharks of the Big City”, “Carrie – Satan’s Youngest Daughter” and “Twin Peaks”. The actress was nominated for an Oscar three times throughout her career.

Hollywood is in mourning. According to US media reports, Piper Laurie died on Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. The actress was 91 years old.

Laurie hasn’t been feeling well for a long time, says her spokeswoman Marion Rosenberg «The Hollywood Reporter».

Piper Laurie came to Hollywood in the late 1940s. She got a number of leading roles, including alongside Ronald Reagan (1911 to 2004), Rock Hudson (1925 to 1985) and Tony Curtis (1925 to 2010).

Piper Laurie has been nominated for an Oscar three times

Over the course of her career, Laurie received three Oscar nominations for the 1961 films “Sharks of the Big City,” the 1976 film adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic “Carrie,” and the 1986 romantic drama “God’s Forgotten Children.”

Piper Laurie has also been celebrated for her roles on television and on stage, including her appearance in David Lynch’s ’90s series “Twin Peaks,” in which she played the scheming Catherine Martell.

The actress was last seen in “White Boy Rick” (2018) with Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rory Cochrane as the grandmother of an FBI informant turned drug dealer.

Piper Laurie was married to film critic Joe Morgenstern. Before that, she was also said to have had a romance with Ronald Reagan. She married Morgenstern in 1962. The couple has a daughter together, Anne Grace Morgenstern.

They divorced in 1982, following which the actress moved to the Hollywood area and continued to work in film and television.

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2023-10-15 06:28:43

The famous Iranian film director, Dariush Mehrjoi, and his wife were stabbed to death in their home by an unknown assailant, the state-run Iranian News Agency (IRNA) reported on Sunday.

IRNA quoted the judicial official, Hossein Fazeli, as saying that Mehrajoui and his wife, Wahida Mohammadi Far, were found dead as a result of injuries resulting from being stabbed with a knife in the neck.

Fazeli also said that the director’s daughter, Mona Mehrjoi, found the two bodies when she went to visit her parents, on Saturday night, in the house located in a suburb regarding 30 kilometers west of the capital, Tehran.

The report stated that the authorities are investigating the incident.

The official offered no speculation on the motive, although the wife had complained of a knife threat on social media in recent weeks.

Mehrjoi (83 years old) was known as one of the founders of the new cinematic wave in Iran in the early 1970s, which focused mainly on realism.

Mehrjoi received many awards, including the Silver Hugo Award from the Chicago International Film Festival in 1998, and the Golden Shell Award from the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 1993.

Mehrjoui studied in the film program at UCLA in the early 1960s.

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