Rewarded with an Emmy Award in 1992, seen in many series like “Desperate Housewives”, “Glee” or “Young Sheldon”, American actress Valerie Mahaffey died on May 30 from cancer. She was 71 years old.
American actress Valerie Mahaffey died this Friday, May 30, from cancer, at the age of 71. “I lost the love of my life and America lost one of its most endearing actresses. She will miss” she will be “ testified Joseph Kell, her husband, in a press release relayed by the Hollywood Reporter.
A long -term career
In a long -term career of almost 50 years, she made herself known by playing often eccentric characters. If she made a few incursions to the cinema, it was on television that she made most of her career, in many TV series: Desperate Housewives, Glee, Young Sheldon, Dead to Me, or Mr. Senator.
Born June 16, 1953 in Indonesia where she remained until her eleven years, spending her childhood in various countries, from Great Britain to Nigeria, Valerie Mahaffey graduated from the Austin High School and then from the University of Texas, in 1975.
She began her career on boards in New York, performing Broadway six times between 1976 and 1984, especially in a room played alongside Raul Julia. Meanwhile, it appeared in 1979-80 in the role of Ashley Bennett in the Soap The Doctorsbroadcast on the NBC channel.
A manipulative woman in Desperate Housewives
She was best known for her role in Dramatic Comedy Welcome to Alaska, broadcast on CBS from 1990 to 1995, which enabled her to win an Emmy Award for his interpretation of Eve, the Hypocondriac wife of Adam Arkin.
Multiplying appearances for an episode in many sometimes famous series (Seinfeld, Dream on, Cheers, Code Quantum, Grey's Anatomy, Ally McBeal …), she was a recurring actress in the series Mr. Senatorbroadcast in 1992-1993 on NBC, the time of 21 episodes.
She had also marked the spirits by playing the character of Alma Hodge, the former manipulator of Orson Hodge and enemy of Bree, in the cult series Desperate Housewives. His most recent work was in the series Dead to mein which she plays Lorna Harding, the narcissistic mother-in-law of Christina Applegate.
