Overview
- Her family, in a joint social media post Sunday, confirmed her death and cited Alzheimer’s after a decade-long illness.
- Reports diverge on timing, with Variety saying she died Sunday and Forbes reporting Saturday.
- She earned three Tony Award nominations for Trelawny of the 'Wells', Crimes of the Heart, and Benefactors.
- Her screen work included Interiors, The World According to Garp, and The Age of Innocence, and she also appeared in Paul Schrader’s Light Sleeper and Affliction.
- Born Mary Beth Supinger in Marshalltown, Iowa, she studied at the University of Iowa and NYU’s Tisch, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2015, and is survived by Paul Schrader and their children Molly and Sam.