{"id":217094,"date":"2023-11-30T00:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=217094"},"modified":"2023-11-30T00:20:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:20:47","slug":"frances-sternhagen-dead-at-93-sex-and-the-city-star-twice-tony-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/celebrities\/frances-sternhagen-dead-at-93-sex-and-the-city-star-twice-tony-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Sternhagen dead at 93 Sex And The City star, twice Tony winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Frances Sternhagen dead at 93: Sex And The City actress and two-time Tony Award winner passes away from natural causes<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The veteran actress passed away peacefully of natural causes in New Rochelle, New York according to her family.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Her loved ones released a statement on Wednesday which read: &#8216;We continue to be inspired by her love and life&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sternhagen was most famous for her role as Charlotte York&#8217;s insufferable mother-in-law Bunny MacDougal in Sex and the City from 2000-2002<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sex And The City actress Frances Sternhagen has died at 93.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran actress passed away peacefully of natural causes in New Rochelle, New York according to her family.<\/p>\n<p>Her loved ones released a statement on Wednesday which read: &#8216;We continue to be inspired by her love and life.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sternhagen was most famous for her role as Charlotte York&#8217;s insufferable mother-in-law Bunny MacDougal in Sex and the City from 2000-2002.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/19\/78387801-12806349-Sex_And_The_City_actress_Frances_Sternhagen_has_died_at_93_she_i-m-32_1701286926357.jpg\" height=\"637\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sex And The City actress Frances Sternhagen has died at 93; she is seen in New York back in March 2002<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/19\/78387915-12806349-image-a-30_1701286385283.jpg\" height=\"477\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sternhagen was most famous for her role as Charlotte York&#8217;s insufferable mother-in-law Bunny MacDougal in Sex and the City from 2000-2002 &#8211; seen left to right Sternhagen, Kyle MacLachlan, and Kristin Davis<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/19\/78388143-12806349-image-a-31_1701286902601.jpg\" height=\"414\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Playing the mother to Kristin Davis&#8217; character on the highly-popular show was not her only signature matriarch role as she also portrayed the overbearing Esther Clavin &#8211; who was the mom of John Ratzenberger&#8217;s Boston postman character Cliff Clavin (pictured) &#8211; on classic sitcom Cheers<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=xoG0JrKJmLk%3Frel%3D0<\/p>\n<p>Playing the mother to Kristin Davis&#8217; character on the highly-popular show was not her only signature matriarch role as she also portrayed the overbearing Esther Clavin &#8211; who was the mom of John Ratzenberger&#8217;s Boston postman character Cliff Clavin &#8211; on classic sitcom Cheers.<\/p>\n<p>The talented thespian had received Emmy nominations for both roles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The acting legend also earned two Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress (Dramatic) in 1974 for the original Broadway production of Neil Simon&#8217;s The Good Doctor and in 1995 for the revival of The Heiress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She had been nominated for awards which recognize excellence on Broadway five more times including being part of the casts of Equus (1975), On Golden Pond (1979), The Sign In Sidney Brustein&#8217;s Window (1972), Angel (1978),\u00a0 and the 2002 revival of Paul Osborn&#8217;s Morning&#8217;s at Seven.<\/p>\n<p>She definitely had a knack for playing\u00a0 eccentric characters who had an overbearing often no-nonsense attitude.<\/p>\n<p>Sternhagen previously told the Los Angeles Times in 2002: &#8216;I must say it\u2019s fun to play these snobby older ladies. It\u2019s always more fun to be obnoxious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have known women like that, and I can imitate them, I guess.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Her career spanned 63 years from 1951 to 2014 as she first began to act on stage on the East Coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/19\/78388463-12806349-image-a-40_1701287649482.jpg\" height=\"507\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>She definitely had a knack for playing eccentric characters who had an overbearing often no-nonsense attitude; she is pictured in Sex And The City<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/19\/78388457-12806349-image-a-41_1701287651882.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The acting legend also earned two Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress (Dramatic) in 1974 for the original Broadway production of Neil Simon&#8217;s The Good Doctor and in 1995 for the revival of The Heiress.; she is pictured in New York back in July 2009<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/20\/78389199-12806349-image-a-44_1701288895550.jpg\" height=\"980\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sternhagen (seen in July 2009) previously told the Los Angeles Times in 2002: &#8216;I must say it\u2019s fun to play these snobby older ladies. It\u2019s always more fun to be obnoxious. I have known women like that, and I can imitate them, I guess.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The talented star made her film debut in 1967 with Up The Down Staircase which starred Oscar-winners\u00a0Sandy Dennis and Eileen Heckart, along with Patrick Bedford and Jean Stapleton.<\/p>\n<p>She had several big-screen roles including The Tiger Makes Out (1967), The Hospital (1971), Bright Lights, Starting Over (1979) ,Big City (1988), See You In The Morning (1989), Misery (1990), The Mist (2007), Julie and Julia (2009), Dolphin Tale (2011) and And So It Goes (2014).<\/p>\n<p>More recently she played the mother of Kyra Sedgewick&#8217;s protagonist character\u00a0LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson in TNT&#8217;s The Closer which aired from 2005 to 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Another notable television role included playing the grandmother &#8211; named Millicent &#8216;Gamma&#8217; Carter &#8211; of Noah Wyle&#8217;s character John Carter on ER.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/19\/78388467-12806349-image-m-43_1701287699586.jpg\" height=\"418\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Her career spanned 63 years from 1951 to 2014 as she first began to act on stage on the East Coast; she is pictured with Kyra Sedwick in season 2 of The Closer in 2006<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/20\/78389187-12806349-image-a-45_1701288900135.jpg\" height=\"986\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sternhagen (pictured in October 2010)\u00a0 is survived by her children Paul, Amanda, Tony, Sarah, Peter and John<\/p>\n<p>In 1955 she starred in a off-Broadway production of Thieves&#8217; Carnival at the Cherry Lane where she met her future husband Thomas A. Carlin.<\/p>\n<p>The two married the following year in 1956 and were together until he died in 1991.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sternhagen is survived by her children\u00a0 Paul, Amanda,\u00a0Tony, Sarah, Peter and John.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic actress will be memorialized with a celebration of her career and life which is planned for mid-January which is close to what would have been her 94th birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12806349\/Frances-Sternhagen-dead-93-Sex-City-actress.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Sternhagen dead at 93: Sex And The City actress and two-time Tony Award winner passes away from natural causes The veteran actress passed away peacefully of natural causes in New Rochelle, New York according to her family.\u00a0 Her loved ones released a statement on Wednesday which read: &#8216;We continue to be inspired by her love and life&#8217;\u00a0 Sternhagen was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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