Elizabeth Hoffman Dies: ‘Sisters’, ‘Winds Of War’ Actress Was 97
deadline.comVeteran character actress Elizabeth Hoffman, perhaps best known for her role as Beatrice Reed Ventnor, mother of the titular sisters played by Swoosie Kurtz, Sela Ward, Patricia Kalember and Julianne Phillips, on NBC’s ’90s drama series Sisters, has died.
Hoffman passed away of natural causes on Aug. 21 at her home in Malibu, CA, her son Chris confirmed to Deadline’s sister pub THR.
She was 97. Born in Corvallis, OR, Hoffman made her television debut recurring as Miss Mason on Little House on the Prairie in 1980.
The following year she made her feature film debut as the lead in Frank LaLoggia’s supernatural horror film Fear No Evil. Hoffman also is known for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in The Winds of War, the television miniseries directed and produced by Dan Curtis, which spanned the earliest years of World War II, from the Nazi blitzkrieg of Poland in 1939 to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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