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Oscar nominee Barbara Barrie dies by medically assisted suicide at 95
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Barbara Barrie, who received an Oscar nomination for her role in the 1979 coming-of-age film "Breaking Away," has died. She was 95.
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'Barney Miller,' 'Breaking Away' star Barbara Barrie dies at 95
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Oscar nominee Barbara Barrie dies by medically assisted suicide at 95
Barbara Barrie, who received a Tony nomination for her role in Broadway’s original Company, an Oscar nomination for her performance in Breaking Away and wide recognition as the wife of Hal Linden’s police captain on TV’s Barney Miller, died today at her home in Manhattan. She was 95.
Barbara Barrie, the Oscar-, Emmy- and Tony-nominated actress who starred in the original production of “Company” and in films including “Breaking Away,” died Wednesday in Manhattan. She was 95. Her daughter confirmed her death to the New York Times and said Barrie’s death was medically assisted foll…
To movie fans, she was probably best known as an Indiana teenager’s supportive mother in “Breaking Away” (1979). She was also nominated for several theater roles.
