born Rosetta Jacobs
January 22, 1932 – October 14, 2023
~I remember her as the terrifying mother in the movie CARRIE ~
"they're all going to laugh at you"
Actress in ‘The Hustler,’ ‘Carrie’ and ‘Twin Peaks,’
The three-time Oscar nominee and Emmy winner also starred in the original 'Days of Wine and Roses' and in 'Children of a Lesser God.'
In 1986, she collected her first Emmy -- for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special -- for playing Annie Gilbert in Promise, an installment in the Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series.
Appeared in numerous other TV series throughout her career including The Twilight Zone, St. Elsewhere, The Thorn Birds and Law & Order: SVU, among others.
She landed her final Emmy nomination in 1999 for a guest role as the mother of a radio psychologist (played by Christine Baranski) on Frasier.
Laurie's final TV role would be in a Season 2 episode of CBS' MacGyver reboot, where she guest-starred opposite Ed Asner
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