Barbara Barrie, Breaking Away star, dies at 95
The Emmy and Oscar-nominated actress died at her Manhattan home. She had battled lung disease for 12 years.
Barbara Barrie earned Emmy, Oscar and Tony nominations during her career in film, television and theatre. She died at her home in Manhattan with medical help, ending her 12-year battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis that began in 2014.
Film audiences knew her best from the 1979 movie Breaking Away, where she played the mother and earned an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. She also played the same role in a 1981 television remake and earned an Emmy nomination.
Her Broadway work included a Tony nomination for Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical Company. She appeared in the sitcom Barney Miller and as Brooke Shields' grandmother in Suddenly Susan.
She was born in Chicago. She graduated from the University of Texas in 1952 as a drama major.
She moved to New York. She made her Broadway debut in 1955.
She is survived by her two children and three grandchildren.
- 95
- Age at death
- 12 years, since 2014
- Disease duration
- Breaking Away, 1979
- Breakout film
- Chicago
- Birth location
Why it mattersHer seven-decade career spanned stages, screens and films. She earned recognition in all three major entertainment fields.
AustraliaNo direct Australian effect. Barrie was an American actor whose work reached Australian audiences through film and television broadcasts.
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