Award-winning Broadway actress and Gilmore Girls star Elizabeth Franz dies aged 84
BROADWAY star Elizabeth Franz has died at the age of 84, her husband has confirmed.
The Tony Award-winning actress had been diagnosed with cancer.
Her husband Christopher Pelham told The New York Times that she died as a result of the disease and a “severe reaction” she suffered from the treatment.
She died at home on November 4 in Woodbury, Connecticut.
Franz is best known for playing Linda Loman in a 1999 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’.
It was this role that earned her a Tony Award and solidified her name among other Broadway greats.
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That production scooped four awards, including the one given to Franz for best featured actress in a play.
She was also nominated for her performances in ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’, a comedy by Neil Simon in 1983, and in 2002 for her role in Paul Osborn’s ‘Morning’s at Seven’.
As well as her husband, she is also survived by her brother, Joe.
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