[This story contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine.] Speculation about who would play Lady Deadpool in Deadpool & Wolverine ran rampant when fans got the first glimpse at the character in a June teaser for Best Friends Day. The shot was brief, only showing legs that mildly resembled a woman’s, but that’s all it took …
Pat Heywood, the veteran Scottish actress who made her film debut as Olivia Hussey’s nurse and confidant in Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, has died. She was 92. Heywood died June 26, the Scottish Daily Mail reported. During her four-decade career, Heywood portrayed the maid in the manor at the center of Freddie …
Yvonne Furneaux, the glamorous actress who had memorable performances in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Le Amiche, Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, has died. She was 98. Furneaux died July 5 at her home in North Hampton, New Hampshire, of complications from a stroke, her son, Nicholas Natteau, told The Hollywood Reporter. She also …
Shelley Duvall, the saucer-eyed, rail-thin waif who starred in seven films directed by her mentor, Robert Altman, and avoided the ax wielded by an unhinged Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, died Thursday. She was 75. Duvall died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas, Dan Gilroy, her …
Joan Benedict, who starred on the original Steve Allen Show and Candid Camera and portrayed the tyrannical hotel queen Leona Helmsley in a one-woman stage show, has died. She was 96. Benedict died June 24 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a stroke, a family spokesperson announced. Benedict was married to …