‘A Christmas Story’ Mother Actress Melinda Dillon Passes Away at 83


Melinda Dillon has sadly died on the age of 83.

The actress, greatest identified for her position because the mother in A Christmas Story, handed away earlier final month, in line with an obituary printed by her household.

The itemizing, through People, didn’t reveal a reason behind demise.

Along with starring in A Christmas Story, Melinda additionally obtained a Tony nomination for her position within the unique 1962 manufacturing of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

She was additionally a two-time Oscar nominee for Steven Spielberg‘s Shut Encounters of the Third Type in 1977, and later for 1981′s Absence of Malice.

Melinda did not return to reprise her position in A Christmas Story Christmas for HBO Max.

Following the information of her passing, Barbra Streisand shared a touching tribute.

“Melinda Dillon was such an ideal actress, with a beautiful delicacy about her,” she wrote. “She was a delight to direct in Prince of Tides. Might she relaxation in peace.”



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