00:00Oscar-nominated actress Barbara Berry has died at 95 after choosing to end her life
00:05with medical assistance following a terminal cancer diagnosis.
00:09The actress died October 28 at her home in Manhattan, the New York Times reported.
00:14Her daughter Jane Harnick confirmed that the death was medically assisted.
00:18Berry had also been diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2014, a degenerative
00:24lung disease that causes scarring and makes breathing increasingly difficult.
00:28Throughout her decades-long career, Berry earned recognition across film, television and theater.
00:33She won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964 for One Potato, Two Potato,
00:40a groundbreaking film about an interracial relationship.
00:43But one of her most memorable performances came in 1979's Breaking Away, in which she
00:48played Evelyn Stoller, a supportive mother in the coming-of-age drama about four teenagers
00:53navigating life after high school in Bloomington, Indiana.
00:56The film, which also starred Dennis Quaid, was a critical success and won the Academy Award
01:02for Best Original Screenplay.
01:04Berry earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
01:08She later reprised the role in the television adaptation, earning an Emmy nomination in 1981.
01:14Berry also received a Tony Award nomination for her performance as Sarah in Stephen Sondheim's
01:19musical, Company, in 1971.
01:22Her other notable credits included playing Captain Barney Miller's wife on the sitcom,
01:26Barney Miller, and portraying Goldie Hawn's mother in the 1980 comedy, Private Benjamin.
01:32Beyond acting, Berry was a published author.
01:35She wrote two children's books, as well as two non-fiction books drawing on her experiences
01:39with cancer, Second Act, and Don't Die of Embarrassment.
01:43Berry is survived by her two children, Jane and Erin Harnick.
01:47She shared them with her late husband, artistic director Jay Harnick, who died in 2007.
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