![]() ![]() ![]() Neal’s daughter Ophelia Dahl said her mother, who was divorced from British writer Roald Dahl and once had an affair with married actor Gary Cooper, “recognized the extraordinary opportunities she had, and she also recognized that she was dealt a bad hand at times.” But in the end, she told family members who had gathered around her the night before: “I’ve had a lovely time.” Neal, 84, died of lung cancer Sunday at her home in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha’s Vineyard. ![]() “Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison,” Neal wrote in her 1988 autobiography, “As I Am.” Her life was marked by professional triumphs, including a Tony Award-winning debut on Broadway in Lillian Hellman’s 1946 drama “Another Part of the Forest” and a best actress Oscar for her role in the 1963 drama “Hud.”īut for Patricia Neal, the husky-voiced actress with a strong screen presence, life also was marked by personal tragedies: the death of one of her children and brain damage to another, and her own battle to overcome the debilitating effects of a ruptured aneurysm in her brain in 1965 that temporarily halted her career. ![]()
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