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Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke dies at 69 | Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke dies at 69 |
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NEW YORK — Patty Duke, who won an Oscar as a teen for “The Miracle Worker” and maintained a long and successful career throughout her life while battling personal demons, has died at the age of 69. | |
Duke’s agent, Mitchell Stubbs, says the actress died early Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She died in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, according to Teri Weigel, the publicist for her son, actor Sean Astin. | Duke’s agent, Mitchell Stubbs, says the actress died early Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She died in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, according to Teri Weigel, the publicist for her son, actor Sean Astin. |
Duke, born Anna Marie Pearce, followed on her early success playing the young Helen Keller with a popular sitcom, “The Patty Duke Show,” which aired for three seasons in the mid-1960s. She played dual roles under an unconventional premise: identical cousins living in Brooklyn Heights, New York. | |
In 2015, she played twin roles again: as a pair of grandmas on an episode of “Liv and Maddie,” a series on the Disney Channel. | |
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This story has been corrected to show that the characters are identical cousins, not twins. | |
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