American actress Jessica Walter, best known for her role as Lucille Bluth on television show Arrested Development, has died aged 80.
Key points:
- Walter earned an Emmy for best actress in a limited series in 1975 for Amy Prentiss
- Her best-known film roles included Evelyn Draper in Clint Eastwood's 1971 thriller, Play Misty for Me
- Younger viewers discovered her in Archer and Arrested Development
Walter's death was confirmed by her daughter, Brooke Bowman.
Walter voiced Mallory Archer in the Archer television series.
Her best-known film roles included playing stalker Evelyn Draper in Clint Eastwood's 1971 thriller, Play Misty for Me, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe.
Walter's daughter said the actor will be remembered for her work and for her wit, class and love of life.
"It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of my beloved mom Jessica. A working actor for over six decades, her greatest pleasure was bringing joy to others through her storytelling both on screen and off," Ms Bowman said in a statement.
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)Walter's comedic flair as the deeply flawed mom of a dysfunctional family in Arrested Development won her a new generation of fans.
"Jessica Walter's spectacular turn as the devilish Lucille Bluth is one of the great comedic performances of television history, and we loved working with her as much as audiences loved her on Arrested Development," the series producer, 20th Television, said in a statement.
Younger viewers also discovered her gifts in Archer, in which she played a petty, martini-swilling spymaster whose deeply dysfunctional relationship with her title character son was the subject of most of the show's early plots when it launched in 2009.
Fellow cast members have paid tribute to Walter on social media, such as Arrested Development cast member Tony Hale and Amber Nash, who voiced Pam Poovey in Archer.
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LoadingLoadingHer early life and career
Walter was the Brooklyn-born, Queens-raised daughter of a Soviet immigrant mother who was a teacher and a father who played bass in the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
She graduated from New York's High School of the Performing Arts and by her early 20s was an established actress who would work steadily for the rest of her life.
She made her Broadway debut in 1963's Photo Finish and starred in the TV series Love of Life from 1962 to 1965.
Walter's feature debut was in the 1964 film Lilith, with Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg and Gene Hackman, who was also on his first film.
She also snagged a role in John Frankenheimer's racing epic Grand Prix, from 1966, as the glamorous but discontented wife of a Formula One racer who falls for another driver.
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)That same year she appeared in Sidney Lumet's The Group, a female-led ensemble about the graduates of a prestigious university (Walter played Libby), and acted for Lumet again in 1968's Bye Bye Braverman.
Walter earned an Emmy for best actress in a limited series in 1975 for Amy Prentiss, in which she played the title character, the first woman to become chief of detectives in the San Francisco Police Department.
The show, a spin-off of Ironside, featured Helen Hunt as Walter's teenage daughter.
Walter was married to Ross Bowman from 1966 to 1978, with whom she had daughter Brooke. Walter was married to actor Ron Leibman from 1983 until his death in 2019.
Walter and Leibman, who won a Tony Award for playing Roy Cohn in 1993's Angels in America, were often co-stars, including a Broadway run in 1988 of Neil Simon's Rumors, and on Archer, where Leibman also voiced a recurring role as her husband.
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