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.”