Charlotte Rae, the Tony- and Emmy-nominated actress best known for her recurring role as Edna Garrett on Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, died on Sunday at age 92.
Rae’s son Larry Strauss confirmed her death to CNN and said the actress died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles surrounded by family. The cause of death has not yet been released.
Rae, born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky, was cast as housekeeper Edna Garrett on Diff’rent Stokes in 1978 and then appeared as the character on spin-off The Facts of Life,...
Rae’s son Larry Strauss confirmed her death to CNN and said the actress died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles surrounded by family. The cause of death has not yet been released.
Rae, born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky, was cast as housekeeper Edna Garrett on Diff’rent Stokes in 1978 and then appeared as the character on spin-off The Facts of Life,...
- 8/6/2018
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Charlotte Rae, the actress who played Mrs. Garrett on The Facts of Life, died on Sunday at the age of 92. Rae's son, Larry Strauss, told NBC News his mother died peacefully in her Los Angeles home surrounded by her family. Strauss did not share a cause of death. "I don't know how old you are, but when we were younger, we used to call it dying of old age," Strauss told the news outlet. In April 2017, Rae revealed she had been diagnosed with bone cancer. The diagnosis came about seven years after she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At the time, Rae told People she had overcome her pancreatic cancer after about six months of chemotherapy. After news of Rae's death broke,...
- 8/6/2018
- E! Online
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