A news By yahoofreeshop:Beloved Hollywood actress Gloria Stuart, who played the older version of Kate Winslet’s character in “Titanic,” has died at the age of 100.
Stuart passed away on Sunday at her Los Angeles home.Her daughter, writer Sylvia Thompson, tells the newspaper Stuart was diagnosed with lung cancer several years ago and had also previously battled breast cancer.
The actress began working in Hollywood in the 1930s and starred in over 40 films during her career, including The Invisible Man, Here Comes the Navy and Poor Little Rich Girl.
After a nearly a decade away from the spotlight, she returned to the big screen in 1997, as the 101-year-old version of Kate Winslet’s character Rose in James Cameron’s Titanic.
Stuart published her autobiography, “I Just Kept Hoping,” in 1999, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000.
