Barbara Tarbuck, known recently for her screen roles as Mother Superior Claudia on “American Horror Story: Asylum,” and as Jane Jacks on “General Hospital,” has died.
Word just came out that Tarbuck, 74, died Monday at her Los Angeles home after suffering from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disorder, a rare, degenerative brain disease.
Besides her more than decade-long work on “General Hospital,” Tarbuck appeared in dozens of prime-time television series including “Dallas,” ”Cagney & Lacey,” ”The Golden Girls,” and “Mad Men,” the AP continued. Her films include “Big Trouble” (1986), “Curly Sue” (1991), and “Walking Tall” (2004).
Tarbuck also performed on stage, including the 1980s Broadway production of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” and Harold Pinter’s “Landscape and Silence.”
Tarbuck’s daughter, producer Jennifer Lane Connolly, said in media reports that her mother was a Detroit native, earned degrees from Wayne State University and the University of Michigan before studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art on a Fulbright Scholarship.
— City News Service