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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. | |
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 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. |
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." |