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Patty Duke, Oscar-winning American actress, dies at 69 Patty Duke, Oscar-winning American actress, dies at 69
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US actress Patty Duke, who won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker in 1963, has died aged 69, her representatives have confirmed. US actress Patty Duke, who won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker in 1963, has died aged 69.
As well as a best supporting Oscar, Duke won an Emmy in 1980 for playing Helen Keller's teacher in a TV movie.As well as a best supporting Oscar, Duke won an Emmy in 1980 for playing Helen Keller's teacher in a TV movie.
Duke starred in The Patty Duke Show in the 1960s in which she took the roles of "identical" teenage cousins. Duke also starred in The Patty Duke Show in the 1960s in which she took the roles of "identical" teenage cousins.
She was the mother of actor Sean Astin, who played the hobbit Sam in the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films.She was the mother of actor Sean Astin, who played the hobbit Sam in the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films.
She underwent a heart bypass in 2004. Her representative, Mitchell Stubbs, said in a statement that she had died early on Tuesday of sepsis from a ruptured intestine.
She had undergone a heart bypass in 2004.
Mr Stubbs said: "She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a mental health advocate and a cultural icon. She will be missed."
A statement from her family read: "This morning, our beloved wife, mother, matriarch and the exquisite artist and champion of mental health, Anna Patty Duke, closed her eyes, quieted her pain and ascended to a beautiful place."