Elizabeth Franz, Gilmore Girls star, Tony Award…
Elizabeth Franz, the Tony Award-winning actress who performed inn proprietor Mia in “Gilmore Girls,” has died. She was 84.
Franz handed away Nov. 4 at her home in Woodbury, Connecticut, her husband, Christopher Pelham, confirmed to The New York Times over the weekend.
Her trigger of death was cancer and a extreme response to her treatment medication, Pelham said.
Elizabeth Franz attends the off-Broadway opening evening afterparty for “A Month in the Country” in 2015. Getty Images
Elizabeth Franz at the afterparty for the Broadway opening of “The remarkable result Worker at Crimson” in 2010. WireImage
Elizabeth Franz as Mia in “Gilmore Girls.” Gilmore Girls
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Franz had a prolific profession including on the stage, showing in on and off Broadway productions like “Buried Child,” “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You,” “Lost in Yonkers” and “A View for the Bridge.”
Her best-known Broadway function was as Linda, the spouse of Brian Dennehy’s Willy Loman, in the fiftieth anniversary manufacturing of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” Her efficiency received her the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play in 1999.
Elizabeth Franz as Linda in “Death of a Salesman.” Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Kevin Anderson, Brian Dennehy, Ted Koch, Elizabeth Franz in “Death of a Salesman” in 1999. Everett Collection / Everett Collection
“You can say anything because you know in the end you’re going be in that bed, curled up and having the most wonderful conversations,” Franz said about the function in The Times’ 1999 function about the manufacturing. “When she’s curled up in his arms and she’s singing to him — you can’t tell me that isn’t a very inappropriate moment.”
In the same function, Miller praised Franz and said she “has discovered in the role the basic underlying powerful protectiveness, which comes out as fury, and that in the past, in every performance I know of, was simply washed out.”
Brian Dennehy, Elizabeth Franz in “Death of a Salesman.” Courtesy Everett Collection
Elizabeth Franz at the Tony Awards on June 6, 1999. Getty Images
Franz went on to star in Showtime’s 2000 TV film adaptation of “Death of a Salesman,” which earned her an Emmy nomination.
The actress also also acquired Tony nominations in 1983 for “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” where she performed Matthew Broderick’s onstage mom, and in 2002 for “Morning’s at Seven,” where she performed the youngest of 4 Midwest sisters.
Brian Dennehy, Ron Eldard, Ted Koch, Elizabeth Franz in the 2000 TV film “Death of a Salesman.” ©Showtime Networks Inc./Courtesy Everett Collection
On tv, Franz performed Mia Bass, the proprietor of the Independence Inn in Stars Hallow, in a Season 2 episode of “Gilmore Girls.” The function was later recast, with Kathy Baker taking over for an episode in Season 7.
Franz’s other notable TV credit embody “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Judging Amy,” “Cold Case,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Homeland.”
Elizabeth Franz in “Gilmore Girls.” Gilmore Girls
Elizabeth Franz in “Gilmore Girls.” Gilmore Girls
Elizabeth Franz (proper) in an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
On the big screen, she appeared in “School Ties,” “Sabrina,” “Twisted,” “A Fish in the Bathtub” and “Christmas with the Kranks.”
Before Pelham, Franz was married to fellow actor Edward Binns until his death in 1990.
Franz is survived by Pelham and her brother, Joe.
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