Overview
- Stacey Souther, her friend and caretaker, confirmed on social media that Perrine died peacefully at home in Beverly Hills on Monday at age 82.
- Soupper shared a GoFundMe supported by her brother, Ken, to pay for burial at Forest Lawn, saying more than 15 years of Parkinson’s left her finances exhausted.
- She earned an Academy Award nomination for 1974’s Lenny, won Best Actress at Cannes, received BAFTA recognition, and later became widely known as Eve Teschmacher in 1978’s Superman and its sequel.
- Perrine began as a Stardust Las Vegas showgirl, debuted in Slaughterhouse-Five in 1972, and made an early TV landmark with a topless appearance in PBS’s 1973 Steambath.
- Obituaries across outlets note a career spanning 65-plus screen roles through 2016 and a 2019 documentary by Souther, with several profiles also recalling personal trials that shaped her public story.