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BREAKING NEWS: Jessica Walter Passes Away At Age 80

'Arrested Development' Star Jessica Walter Passes at 80 | Celebrity Page

Movie star Jessica Walter has sadly passed away at the age of 80.

Arrested Development star Jessica Walter sadly passed away at the age of 80-years-old. Walter was iconic in many ways: check out her career highlights!


1975 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress

Arrested Development

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In 1975, Walter won the prestigious Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for the NBC Drama Amy Prentiss and was also nominated for Arrested Development in 2005, The Streets of San Francisco and Trapper John M.D.

TV Shows

90210

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Walter appeared in numerous TV shows throughout the years including 90210, At Home With Amy Sedaris, Coach,Good Girls, Murder, She Wrote, One Life To Live and The Love Boat, Law and Order etc. She had also voiced FX's Malory Archer in the animated series Archer.

Broadway & Tony Award

The Carol Burnett Show

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Walter also appeared in Broadway musicals, loving the world of the arts until the very end. In 2011, the actress won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical with Anything Goes.

Lilith (1964)

Lilith

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Her debut movie Lilith, directed by Robert Rossen, was a captivating story in a mental hospital. Little did Walter know that Lilith was just going to be the beginning of a long career.

Play Misty For Me (1971)

Play Misty For Me

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Walter's memorable role in Play Misty For Me, Eastwood's movie (1971) where the actress played a complex woman that becomes more and more violent for jealousy.

It would be impossible to include every movie, TV show, or project Walter has participated in. Arrested Development co-stars Tony Hale and David Cross posted on Twitter their sorrow for losing such a force of nature like Walter.

One thing we can deduce from her iconic career is that Walter had a profound love for anything that concerned the arts. The fact that the actress was able to play many different characters in complicated stories shows the commitment that she had for her passion. Walter will always be remembered by all of us.

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