Margaret Whitton, who was once easiest identified for her villainous function in Major League, died Sunday, December 4, according to more than one stories. She was 67.
The actress died at her home in Palm Beach, Florida, after a brief struggle with most cancers, Steven Tabakin, her buddy and Tashtego Films producing partner informed The Hollywood Reporter.
Born in Philadelphia, in November 1949, Whitton first stepped into the spotlight at the American Place Theatre when she starred in the Off Broadway 1973 play Baba Goya along Olympia Dukakis. She gave the impression in several New York theater productions sooner than making her Broadway debut in 1982’s Steaming, and later starred in 1996’s The Apple Doesn’t Fall … and 1999’s Marlene.
The actress was additionally known for a number of onscreen roles. In Major League (1989) and Major League II (1994), she starred as Rachel Phelps, a former Las Vegas showgirl who becomes the spiteful owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball crew. She additionally starred in 1986’s The Best of Times, 1987’s The Secret of My Success and 1993’s The Man Without a Face.
Whitton’s function in the Major League motion pictures used to be a nod to her real-life love of baseball. Her husband, Warren Spector, informed The New York Times that she was a New York Yankees fan and had season tickets to the previous Yankee Stadium, however noticed the brand new stadium, which opened in April 2009, as “soulless.”
The redhaired beauty additionally labored as a TV actress with appearances in The Doctors, A (*67*) Romance and Good & Evil.
In the 1990s, Whitton left performing to become a director, making her function movie directing debut with 2011’s A Bird of the Air.
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Whitton is survived by Spector, her 2d husband, sisters Suzy Liss and Mary Beth Whitton, and brothers James and John Whitton. She was once previously married to cabinetmaker Bill Russell.
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