Connie Sawyer, the oldest working member of the Screen Actors Guild and the Academy, has died. She was 105.
The actress died peacefully at her home in Woodland Hills, California, according to Deadline. She had previously resided at the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s residential community for entertainment industry retirees in Los Angeles.
A rep for Sawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment from People.
The Pueblo, Colorado, native, who was born on November 27, 1912, made audiences laugh since before the television was even invented, first starring in vaudeville shows when she was just a child.
She later landed...
The actress died peacefully at her home in Woodland Hills, California, according to Deadline. She had previously resided at the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s residential community for entertainment industry retirees in Los Angeles.
A rep for Sawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment from People.
The Pueblo, Colorado, native, who was born on November 27, 1912, made audiences laugh since before the television was even invented, first starring in vaudeville shows when she was just a child.
She later landed...
- 1/23/2018
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
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