Tony and Emmy Award winner Mary Alice is dead. A New York City Police Department spokesman confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the actress died on July 27 at her Manhattan home. According to the report, Alice was 85 years old. She achieved international fame primarily thanks to her portrayal of the oracle in "Matrix Revolutions" from 2003.
Alice already made a name for herself in the USA in the 70s and 80s as a celebrated theater and musical actress on Broadway. In 1990, for example, she played alongside Robert De Niro (78) in "Age of Awakening". Alice had other engagements in the films "Malcom X" with Denzel Washington (67), "Perfect World" with Clint Eastwood (92) and Kevin Costner (67) or in "Das Rosenbett" with Christian Slater (52).
The former Chicago teacher won her Emmy Award in 1993 for her role as Marguerite Peck on the NBC legal drama series I'll Fly Away, starring Sam Waterston, 81, and Regina Taylor, 61. In the US cult film "Sparkle" from 1976 she also embodied the single mother Effie, who raises her three daughters against all odds. Mary Alice was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2000.
