Valerie Mahaffey, the Emmy-winning actress finest recognized for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Big Sky” and “Young Sheldon,” has died at 71.
Mahaffey died Friday following a brief battle with most cancers, her husband, Joseph Kell, mentioned in a press release.
“I have lost the love of my life, and America has lost one of its most endearing actresses,” he heartbreakingly wrote. “She will be missed.”
Mahaffey, who was born in Indonesia to a Canadian mom and an American father, obtained her Hollywood break within the late Nineteen Seventies with a task on the hit TV cleaning soap “The Doctors.”
She subsequently appeared in episodes of “Newhart,” “Cheers” and “Seinfeld,” earlier than becoming a member of the forged of “Northern Exposure” in 1991.
The small-screen star received an Emmy for her function as Eve within the whimsical CBS dramedy, which ran for six seasons.
Mahaffey went on to seem in among the greatest TV reveals of the Nineties and 2000s, together with “ER,” “Ally McBeal,” “Frasier,” “The West Wing” and “CSI.”
She additionally performed Alma Hodge in 9 episodes of “Desperate Housewives.”
The industrious actress continued her spectacular physique of labor into the 2010s, with roles in “Glee,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Man In The High Castle.”
Mahaffey later joined the forged of “Young Sheldon,” taking part in Mrs MacElroy from 2017 – 2020. She additionally had a lead function on the primary season of David E. Kelley’s crime drama “Big Sky.”
Along with her small-screen roles, Mahaffey additionally starred in a number of movies, together with 2016’s “Sully,” wherein she appeared reverse Tom Hanks.
