LOS ANGELES — Actress Piper Laurie, greatest recognized for her haunting flip as an abusively religious mom within the 1976 horror traditional “Carrie,” died in Los Angeles Saturday on the age of 91, based on a number of media experiences.
Laurie had been ailing for a while, her supervisor Marion Rosenberg informed reporters.
Rosenberg known as her “some of the outstanding and versatile actresses of her day, an excellent and inventive thoughts, and a wonderful human being.”
Laurie appeared in over 100 movies and tv exhibits over her lengthy and various profession. A lot of her performances have been critically praised, together with her function reverse Paul Newman in 1961’s “The Hustler,” a key half in 1986’s “Kids of a Lesser God,” and a recurring function within the Nineteen Nineties tv present “Twin Peaks.”
Piper Laurie and Ronald Reagan are seen chatting collectively at a Hollywood get together in March, 1950. The get together was honoring Charles Coburn for 60 years in present enterprise. (AP Picture)
Actress Piper Laurie arrives on the premiere of “Hounddog” in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. (AP Picture/Peter Kramer)
Actress Piper Laurie arrives on the Girls in Movie Crystal Lucy Awards on Friday June 12, 2009, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Matt Sayles)
Actress Piper Laurie is proven in 1962. (AP Picture)
Working up an urge for food earlier than lunch, this quartette of thespians stroll across the studio lot, Aug. 13, 1950. Left to proper are: Jimmy Durante, Joyce Holden, Piper Laurie and Donald O’Connor. O’Connor is appearing out the identify of the movie by which all 4 are working. (AP Picture)
Film actress Piper Laurie will get a double kiss from two members of her “honor guard” as she cuts the cake at a celebration to have a good time her twenty first birthday, on the 21 Membership in New York, Jan. 23, 1953. The guard is made up of: entrance, left to proper, Air Corps Sgt. Richard Hertz of New York, and Marine Sgt. Allen Moree of Orlando, Fla.; rear, left to proper, Military Pvt. Leonard O’Sullivan of New York, and Navy S/A Fred Stengel of Brooklyn, New York. Piper is in New York for the opening of her newest movie, “Mississippi Gambler,” on January 29. (AP Picture/Ed Ford)
Actress Piper Laurie watches piper Thomas Gorrian of the Lovat Pipe Band as he pipes a tune earlier than the gala world premiere of a 3-D movie, “King of the Khyber Rifles,” on the Rivoli Theater in New York, Dec. 23, 1953. (AP Picture/Ed Ford)
The preview-premiere of the brand new movie “The Hollywood Story,” was the event to salute the cinema stalwarts who reigned in by-gone days in Hollywood, Calif., Might 10, 1951. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the studio acquired collectively to specific their gratitude to previous time stars. Every of the previous troupers was escorted to the Academy Awards Theater, the place the occasion was held by a movie newcomer. Right here Jack Benny, grasp of ceremonies is proven with younger actresses Piper Laurie, and Julia Adams, and Francis X. Bushman, one of many display’s first nice lovers, and now a tv and radio actor. (AP Picture/Frank Filan)
Starlet Piper Laurie proved her hand is regular by making this home of playing cards whereas ready for her flip earlier than the Hollywood cameras throughout the filming of “The Milkman,” Sept. 17, 1950. (AP Picture)
Actress Piper Laurie and Joseph M. Morgenstern, drama reporter and critic of the New York Herald-Tribune, pose as she visits him at work in New York, Dec. 28, 1961, shortly after her dad and mom, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jacobs, introduced the engagement. A personal marriage ceremony is deliberate on the house of the bride’s sister in Lengthy Seashore, Calif. (AP Picture/John Lent)
Actress Piper Laurie hugs her husband-to-be, Joseph M. Morgenstern, at his desk on the Herald-Tribune in New York, shortly after her dad and mom introduced their engagement, Dec. 28, 1961. He’s a drama reporter and critic. Her dad and mom, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jacobs, stated they plan a personal marriage ceremony in Lengthy Seashore, Calif. (AP Picture/John Lent)
Actress Piper Laurie and Joseph Morgenstern, drama author for the New York Herald-Tribune, decide up a wedding license on the county clerk’s workplace in Los Angeles, Jan. 19, 1962. They’ll be wed on January 21, her thirtieth birthday in Lengthy Seashore. Their romance started when Morgenstern was assigned to interview her. (AP Picture/Harold Filan)
Actress Piper Laurie poses with Emmy she accepted for Roddy McDowall for his TV function in Equitable’s American Heritage, “Not With out Honor,” Might 16, 1961 in New York. (AP Picture/Jack Kanthal)
Fairly Piper Laurie, auburn-haired starlet, toasts Donald O’Connor, July 22, 1950, who performs the lead in “The Milkman,” with a number of the merchandise he’s presupposed to ship within the movie, now in manufacturing in Hollywood. (AP Picture)
Accordionist Dick Contino, returned from Military service in Korea, at a Hollywood night time membership in Los Angeles, Feb. 7, 1954 with actress Piper Laurie. Each stated the date meant nothing greater than friendship they usually weren’t romantically severe. It was Contino’s first date since his Military discharge after 20 months service. (AP Picture)
Actress Piper Laurie is proven, 1987. (AP Picture)
Movie actor Rock Hudson has a chat with pretty Piper Laurie in his dressing room, between scenes on the sound stage in Hollywood, April 13, 1953, the place they’re starring in “The Golden Blade.” (AP Picture/Ellis R. Bosworth)
Film Actress Piper Laurie, left, wears a donkey head magnificence spot on her cheek as she chats with Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, Democratic presidential nominee in Portland, Sept. 8, 1952. She was right here for town’s fall opening. Stevenson was right here to open his marketing campaign for West Coast votes at Portland. (AP Picture)
Piper Laurie, nominated within the supporting actress class for her function in “Kids of a Lesser God,” arrives on the 59th Annual Academy Awards on the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, March 30, 1987. (AP Picture/Lennox McLendon)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – NOVEMBER 20: Piper Laurie at Fox Searchlight Footage’ “Hitchcock” Los Angeles Premiere held at AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on November 20, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. (Picture by Eric Charbonneau/Invision/AP Photos)
EXCLUSIVE – Piper Laurie and Eddie Redmayne seen at Focus Options ‘The Danish Lady’ Brunch hosted by Anne Hathaway and Dustin Lance Black on Sunday, December 20, 2015, in Beverly Hills, CA. (Picture by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Focus Options/AP Photos)
Many audiences know her greatest from “Carrie,” nonetheless. Her chilling portrayal of Margaret White, the fanatic and frighteningly overprotective mom of the shy highschool scholar performed by Sissy Spacek, gave a particular depth to Brian De Palma’s movie of Stephen King’s novel.
Laurie was nominated for 3 Oscars throughout her profession, and obtained Emmy nominations for “Twin Peaks” in 1990 and 1991.
Her final credit score was a job because the grandmother of an FBI informant-turned drug vendor in 2018’s “White Boy Rick,” which starred Matthew McConaughey.
