Veteran actress Barbara Barrie, known for her Oscar-nominated role in Breaking Away, died with medical assistance at age 95.
Her daughter Jane Harnick said the 95-year-old passed away at her Manhattan, New York home after a battle with terminal cancer.
Barrie disclosed in 2014 that she had been diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a degenerative lung disease.
Her career spanned more than seven decades, covering dozens of stage, television and film roles.
She earned best actress honors at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival for One Potato, Two Potato, a film about an interracial relationship.
The role that defined her career arrived in 1979, when she played a supportive mother of a teenager in the acclaimed Breaking Away.
The performance secured an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress, while the film won best original screenplay.
She later reprised the character in a television series based on the movie and received an Emmy nomination in 1981.
On Broadway, Barrie was nominated for a Tony for portraying Sarah in the original production of Stephen Sondheim's Company.
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