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Elizabeth Franz, who received a Tony Award for her unusual, forceful turn as the wife of Brian Dennehy’s Willy Loman in a 50th anniversary production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, has died. She was 84.

Franz died Nov. 4 at her home in Woodbury, Connecticut, after a battle with cancer, her husband, screenwriter Christopher Pelham, told The New York Times.

Franz also landed Tony noms in 1983 and 2002, respectively, for portraying Kate Jerome (Matthew Broderick’s mom) in Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and the youngest of four sisters (Piper Laurie, Frances Sternhagen and Estelle Parsons were her siblings) in a revival of Paul Osborn’s Morning’s at Seven.

Plus, she sparkled — and won an Obie Award in 1980 — for her performance as the strict nun in Christopher Durang’s Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You.

Franz and Dennehy had started out with Death of a Salesman…

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