Boston:
Veteran Hollywood actress GloriaStuart, best remembered as the elderly Kate Winslet inOscar-winning superhit Titanic has died. She was 100.
Stuart had been diagnosed with lung cancer five yearsago. A founding member of the Screen Actors Guild, Stuart diedSunday night at her West Los Angeles home. The actress hadalso survived breast cancer 20 years ago.
"She just paid no attention to illness. She was a verystrong woman and had other fish to fry," said Stuart'sdaughter Sylvia Thompson.
Stuart had won an Oscar nomination for her role asRose Calvert, the 101-year-old survivor in the James Camerondirected Titanic.
A 1930s Hollywood leading lady, Stuart acted in movieslike The Invisible Man, The Prisoner of Shark Island. Shealso appeared in Roman Scandals, Here Comes the Navy andPoor Little Rich Girl.
She featured in 42 films between 1932 and 1939 underher contract with Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox.Stuart later retired from the screen in 1946.
In Gloria Stuart: I Just Kept Hoping, her 1999autobiography written with her daughter Sylvia Thompson,Stuart said that after reading the Titanic script, "I knewthe role I had wanted and waited for all these many yearshad arrived. I could taste the role of Old Rose."
At 87, Stuart became the oldest actress ever nominatedfor an Academy Award for her role in Titanic. Winslet wasalso nominated for her role and it was the first time in Oscarhistory that two performers were nominated for playing thesame character in the same film.
In 2000, a star in her honour was unveiled at thefamous 'Hollywood Walk of Fame' in Los Angeles' HollywoodBoulevard.
Stuart had been diagnosed with lung cancer five yearsago. A founding member of the Screen Actors Guild, Stuart diedSunday night at her West Los Angeles home. The actress hadalso survived breast cancer 20 years ago.
"She just paid no attention to illness. She was a verystrong woman and had other fish to fry," said Stuart'sdaughter Sylvia Thompson.
Stuart had won an Oscar nomination for her role asRose Calvert, the 101-year-old survivor in the James Camerondirected Titanic.
A 1930s Hollywood leading lady, Stuart acted in movieslike The Invisible Man, The Prisoner of Shark Island. Shealso appeared in Roman Scandals, Here Comes the Navy andPoor Little Rich Girl.
She featured in 42 films between 1932 and 1939 underher contract with Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox.Stuart later retired from the screen in 1946.
In Gloria Stuart: I Just Kept Hoping, her 1999autobiography written with her daughter Sylvia Thompson,Stuart said that after reading the Titanic script, "I knewthe role I had wanted and waited for all these many yearshad arrived. I could taste the role of Old Rose."
At 87, Stuart became the oldest actress ever nominatedfor an Academy Award for her role in Titanic. Winslet wasalso nominated for her role and it was the first time in Oscarhistory that two performers were nominated for playing thesame character in the same film.
In 2000, a star in her honour was unveiled at thefamous 'Hollywood Walk of Fame' in Los Angeles' HollywoodBoulevard.
