Actress Rue McClanahan, who starred as an ageing, sex-obsessed southern belle in the hit comedy series The Golden Girls, has died aged 76, DPA reported.
Her manager, Barbara Lawrence, told People magazine that she died in a New York hospital Thursday morning after suffering a "massive stroke."
McClanahan won an Emmy award in 1977 as the year's outstanding comic actress for her role on Golden Girls, a sitcom about four middle-aged women sharing an apartment in Miami.
Born in Oklahoma in 1934 she had been married six times.
Golden Girl Rue McClanahan dies
Actress Rue McClanahan, who starred as an ageing, sex-obsessed southern belle in the hit comedy series The Golden Girls, has died aged 76.
