Holliday died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan, Dennis Aspland, her theatrical agent and friend, told The New York Times.
In 1990, Holliday received a Tony nomination for playing Big Mama in a revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Four years earlier, she starred opposite Jean Stapleton on Broadway in another revival of a classic, Arsenic and Old Lace.
On the big screen, Holliday played Ruby Deagle, the wealthy and wicked widow who meets her swift end after a ride on a tampered stair-lift chair in Joe Dante’s Gremlins (1984).
She also appeared in John G. Avildsen’s W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975), Paul Mazursky‘s Moon Over Parador (1988), Chris Columbus’ Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Mr. Wrong (1996) — as Ellen…
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