{"id":8332,"date":"2025-12-03T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:00:33","slug":"tony-winning-actress-elizabeth-franz-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=8332","title":{"rendered":"Tony-Winning Actress Elizabeth Franz Dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"446\">Elizabeth Franz, the Tony Award\u2013winning actress known for her role as Linda Loman in <em data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"205\">Death of a Salesman<\/em> and for playing Mia Halloway on <em data-start=\"238\" data-end=\"253\">Gilmore Girls<\/em>, has died at 84. She passed away on November 4 at her home in Woodbury, Connecticut, after battling cancer and suffering complications from treatment, her husband Christopher Pelham confirmed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"448\" data-end=\"819\">Franz enjoyed a long career on stage and screen. Her acclaimed 1999 Broadway performance in <em data-start=\"540\" data-end=\"561\">Death of a Salesman<\/em> earned her a Tony Award, and she later reprised the role in the TV film adaptation. She also appeared in popular shows such as <em data-start=\"689\" data-end=\"699\">Roseanne<\/em>, <em data-start=\"701\" data-end=\"719\">Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/em>, and <em data-start=\"725\" data-end=\"741\">Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>, along with films including <em data-start=\"770\" data-end=\"779\">Sabrina<\/em> (1995) and <em data-start=\"791\" data-end=\"818\">Christmas With the Kranks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"821\" data-end=\"1030\">Born in Akron, Ohio, in 1940, Franz often spoke about her difficult childhood, shaped by her mother\u2019s mental illness. Despite her challenges, she built a respected five-decade career in theater and television.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1032\" data-end=\"1159\">She is survived by her husband, Christopher Pelham, and her brother, Joe. Her former husband, actor Edward Binns, died in 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Franz, the Tony Award\u2013winning actress known for her role as Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman and for playing Mia Halloway on Gilmore Girls, has died at 84. She passed away on November 4 at her home in Woodbury, Connecticut, after battling cancer and suffering complications from treatment, her husband Christopher Pelham confirmed. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}