Longtime actress Barbara Barrie died Wednesday in a medically assisted procedure following a terminal cancer diagnosis. She was 95.
Ms. Barrie’s daughter told The New York Times that the actress underwent the medically assisted procedure in her New York City home.
Ms. Barrie was a well-known and well-liked performer on stage, screen and television. She earned an Academy Award nomination for 1979’s “Breaking Away” and won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for 1964’s “One Potato, Two Potato.”
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Ms. Barrie also received a Tony nomination for the original 1970 Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company.”
On TV, she was known for her sitcom roles in “Barney Miller” in the 1970s and “Suddenly Susan” in the 1990s.
Medically assissted suicide is legal in New York under the Medical Aid in Dying Act, which took effect Aug. 5. Ms. Barrie’s agent told USA Today that her death was medically assisted under that law.
Other states with similar laws include California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.
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