M*A*S*H Star Loretta Swit Dead at 87

 


BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK

Loretta Swit, known for plalying Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, has died at age 87. She past away at home according to her publicist Harlan Boll. Authorities believe she died of natural causes.

Swit played a US Army Nurse in the Korean War, at a medical unit in Korea. The Show MASH had 11 seasons and ran from 1972 until 1983.

She had appeared in nearly every episode and won at least 2 awards for her acting performances.

The show's finale attracted 106 million U.S. viewers back in the 1980's.

Per the BBC:

In addition to her Emmys, Swit was nominated for four Golden Globe awards.

"Acting is not hiding to me, it's revealing. We give you license to feel," she said in an interview with the Star magazine in 2010. "That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead."

Speaking to an author about her character on M*A*S*H she said: "Around the second or third year, I decided to try to play her as a real person, in an intelligent fashion, even if it meant hurting the jokes. ... She was a character in constant flux; she never stopped developing."

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