Oscar nominee Piper Laurie, star of ‘Carrie,’ ‘The Hustler,’ dead at 91By Jack Hobbs
Published Oct. 15, 2023
Piper Laurie, best known for her role as the incredibly controlling and devout mother in the 1976 horror film “Carrie,” died Saturday. She was 91.
The three-time Oscar nominee’s longtime manager, Marion Rosenberg, told Entertainment Weekly that Laurie was “one of the most remarkable and versatile actresses of her day, a brilliant and creative mind, and a glorious human being.”
She told The Post that Laurie was “one of the great talents of her generation, in addition to being a magnificent human being.”
According to Rosenberg, the actress died of a long, unspecified illness at her home in Los Angeles.
Born Rosetta Jacobs on Jan. 22, 1932, Laurie changed her name after she landed a contract with Universal Studios in 1949.
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