American stage and screen actress Penelope Milford, who was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1979 for her role in Hal Ashby’s “Coming Home,” died Tuesday in Saugerties, N.Y. She was 77.
Her death was confirmed by her brother Doug Milford. A cause was not immediately available.
Milford’s professional career on the New York stage began in 1971 where she co-starred opposite Richard Gere in an Off-Broadway production of “Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone,” based upon the life of musician-novelist Richard Farina.
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