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Oscar Nominated ‘Carrie’ Actress Piper Laurie Has Passed Away

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Bloody Disgusting has learned the sad news tonight that three-time Academy Award nominated acting legend Piper Laurie has passed away. The actress was 91 years old.

Los Angeles Times reports, “Still acting until late in life, Piper Laurie died Saturday morning in Los Angeles, her manager confirmed. An exact cause of death was not given.”

One of the films that earned Piper Laurie an Oscar nomination was Brian De Palma’s Carrie, the iconic 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s horror novel. Laurie played Margaret White in the film, the mother of lead character Carrie White and the true villain of the horror classic.

Piper Laurie was also nominated for Academy Awards before and after her role in Carrie, first for The Hustler in 1962 and then later for Children of a Lesser God in 1987.

Horror fans will also remember Piper Laurie for her roles in “Twin Peaks” and the 1998 movie The Faculty, as well as the films Ruby (1977), Return to Oz (1985), and Trauma (1993).

Laurie’s career spanned an incredible six decades, and she won a Primetime Emmy in 1987 for the TV movie Promise. She was also nominated for an additional eight Primetime Emmys for projects including “The Bunker,” “St. Elsewhere,” “Twin Peaks,” and “Frasier.”

Piper Laurie is survived by her daughter, Anna Grace Morgenstern.

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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‘Dead and Breakfast’ – Dermot Mulroney Stars in B&B Horror Movie

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Coming soon from Beno Films and Al Bravo Films, the horror movie Dead and Breakfast has wrapped production, and Deadline shares a first-look image with us this week (above).

Dermot Mulroney (Scream VI) stars in the upcoming film.

Deadline details, “The horror thriller follows five petty criminals who rob a pawn shop in Kansas City. On their drive back to Little Rock, an unexpected engine failure forces them to stay in a bed & breakfast in the middle of nowhere where their plan quickly derails into a bloodbath.”

William Moseley, Chris Mullinax, and Texas Battle also star.

J.P. Loppo Martinez wrote and directed Dead and Breakfast.

Eduard Osipov, Al Bravo, and RJ Collins produced the film.

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