Emmy-winning actress Valerie Mahaffey has died on the age of 71.
Mahaffey earned the supporting comedy actress award for her efficiency as Eve in CBS comedy-drama Northern Publicity within the Nineties however will likely be most recognisable to many for newer roles in Young Sheldon and Desperate Housewives.
In Young Sheldon, she performed the instructor Victoria MacElroy, whereas she was Alma Hodge, the ex-wife of Kyle MacLachlan’s Orson Hodge, in Desperate Housewives.
Mahaffey’s loss of life was confirmed by her husband, actor Joseph Kell, who mentioned she handed yesterday (Friday thirtieth Could) in Los Angeles after a battle with most cancers.
Kell mentioned: “I’ve misplaced the love of my life, and America has misplaced considered one of its loveliest actresses. She will likely be missed.”
Mahaffey was born in Indonesia, the place she was raised till the age of 11 earlier than happening to graduate from highschool in Austin, Texas, and from the College of Texas.
The American actress, whose profession started on stage in New York, was additionally solid in movies corresponding to Seabiscuit and Sully.
In 2020, she was nominated for a Spirit Award for her efficiency as widow Madame Reynard within the 2020 comedy-drama French Exit, which additionally starred Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges.
Alongside Young Sheldon and Desperate Housewives, Mahaffey’s spectacular record of TV credit additionally contains the likes of Seinfeld, E.R., The West Wing, Gray’s Anatomy, Cheers, Frasier, and Glee.
Extra just lately, she has starred in Montana-based crime drama Large Sky, alongside Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini in Useless To Me, and in Apple TV sequence Echo 3.
