Patricia Neal has died at the age of 84. The Oscar-winning actress, who won the Best Actress Academy Award playing alongside Paul Newman in Hud, will be sorely missed by film fans all around the world.
Neal won her Oscar in 1964. Unfortunately, she suffered three strokes around a year after this high-point, leaving her in a coma for weeks. Afterwards she was left unable to walk or talk.
Thankfully she learned to do both again in the succeeding years. And grew old gracefully.
She died on Sunday evening at her home in Edgartown, Massachusetts, and although the cause of death hasn’t yet been revealed, she was thought to have been suffering from lung cancer.
R.I.P. Patricia Neal – 1926 – 2010.
