Actress Connie Sawyer peacefully passed away at her home in Woodland Hills, California,on Sunday, January 21st,according to TMZ.
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Sawyer lived an amazingly long, prosperous life in her 105 years of living, with 87 of those being behind the camera and on the TV screen. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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To date, she has over 140 acting credits, as she was mostly known for her guest roles in old-time classic TV shows like ‘Good Times’, ‘Hawaii Five-O’, ‘Murder, She Wrote’, and ‘The Andy Griffith Show’.
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In 2012, Sawyer, at the age of 99, became one of the oldest members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Her last film was ‘Entanglement’ in 2014. The cause of death hasn’t been publicly released yet.
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