Oscar Winner, Co-Starred with Barbra in "Nuts"

March 13, 2006
Oscar and Emmy award winning actress Maureen Stapleton passed away on March 13 of natural causes. Stapleton appeared in over 35 motion pictures, including the Barbra Streisand film, "Nuts," where she gave an emotionally charged performance as the mother of Streisand's character, Claudia.

Stapleton was nominated three times before winning her only Oscar, playing Emma Goldman in the 1981 film, "Reds" opposite Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton She was also a member of The Actors Studio.

Stapleton was married at one time to David Rayfiel, one of the un-credited writers who worked with Arthur Laurents on the screenplay of The Way We Were.

Maureen Stapleton was 80 and resided in New York.