November 12, 2024

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Phyllis Somerville, actor of stage and screen, dies at 76

NEW YORK – Phyllis Somerville, an actor with a prolonged career of roles in movie, tv and Broadway productions, has died. She was 76.

Somerville’s supervisor Paul Hilepo suggests the actor died Thursday in New York City of all-natural leads to.

A indigenous of Iowa, Somerville moved to New York in the seventies. She most just lately appeared onstage in the Broadway creation of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

“She took satisfaction in calling herself a New Yorker but she had salt of the Earth mid-western roots which she was also very pleased of,” Hilepo reported in an electronic mail.

On tv, she appeared in “The Major C,” “NYPD Blue” and was in movies like “Arthur” and was among the “The Curious Circumstance of Benjamin Button” solid members nominated for a Monitor Actors Guild Award.

Her last movie credit was “Poms,” in which she appeared along with Diane Keaton and Pam Grier in a comedy about older ladies who type a cheerleading squad.

In “The Major C,” she played the foul-mouthed neighbor to Laura Linney’s character, a straight-laced background trainer who is given a grim most cancers prognosis.

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