Die Hard and Melrose Place actress Selma Archerd has died aged 98.
The well-known Hollywood star was also the wife of longtime Variety columnist Army Archerd.
Archerd died on December 14 in Los Angeles, according to a Legacy.com posting on the Los Angeles Times’s website.
Her family described her as a ‘devoted mother and grandmother’, assuring that she died ‘peacefully’.
She is remembered for having starred as a hostage in the 1988 Bruce Willis movie Die Hard, as well as playing the role of Nurse Amy in 25 episodes of Fox’s soap Melrose Place from 1995 to 1999.
The late actress made a range of cameos from the 1970s through to the 1990s in various films and in TV shows, including Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon 3, The Brady Bunch, and Serpico.
Archerd’s additional roles also included Scrooged, W.C. Fields and Me, Mommie Dearest, and Harry and Walter Go to New York.
She and her late husband – who died in 2009 -also appeared as themselves on The Love Boat and took part in the game show Tattletales.
Armand ‘Army’ Archerd was the actress’s second husband, whom she married a month after her divorce was finalised.
They reportedly first met when she was 16 and he was 19, but they reconnected 28 years later.
Archerd previously spoke of her pride for her husband, who was a columnist for Variety for over 50 years before retiring his Just for Variety column in 2005.
‘I am very proud of him and I am very fierce about protecting the status of what he is,’ she said.
‘He isn’t the richest man in the world, or the most powerful, but what he has, I want respected.’
In 2010 after his death at the age of 87, she accepted a memorial tribute for him.
Archerd is survived by two sons, Richard and James, and a grandson named Ryan.
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