Oscar winning actress Maureen Stapleton dies
13/03/2006 - 18:22:38Maureen Stapleton, the Oscar-winning character acress whose subtle vulnerability and down-to-earth toughness earned her dramatic and comedic roles on stage, screen, and television, died Monday. She was 80.
Her son, Daniel Allentuck, said she died of natural causes.
Stapleton, whose unremarkable, matronly appearance belied her star personality and talent, won an Academy Award in 1981 for her supporting role as anarchist-writer Emma Goldman in Warren Beatty’s Reds, about a left-wing American journalist who journeys to Russia to cover the Bolshevik Revolution.
