{"id":132255,"date":"2017-11-18T21:58:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T02:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=132255"},"modified":"2017-11-18T21:58:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T02:58:53","slug":"ann-wedgeworth-known-for-threes-company-role-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/18\/ann-wedgeworth-known-for-threes-company-role-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Wedgeworth, known for &#8216;Three&#8217;s Company&#8217; role, dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_132267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132267\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ann-Wedgeworth-400x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-132267\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ann-Wedgeworth-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"She's perhaps best known for the TV sitcom \u201cThree's Comedy,\u201d where she played Lana Shields, an older woman with her eyes set on her young neighbour Jack, played by John Ritter. (Photo by threescompany.com)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ann-Wedgeworth-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ann-Wedgeworth-400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ann-Wedgeworth-400x400-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-132267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">She&#8217;s perhaps best known for the TV sitcom \u201cThree&#8217;s Comedy,\u201d where she played Lana Shields, an older woman with her eyes set on her young neighbour Jack, played by John Ritter. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.threescompany.com\/cast\/ann-wedgeworth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by threescompany.com<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Actress Ann Wedgeworth, who gained fame on film and Broadway before taking on the role of a flirty divorcee on \u201cThree&#8217;s Company,\u201d has died at age 83.<\/p>\n<p>Wedgeworth&#8217;s daughter Dianna Martin says her mother died Thursday in the New York area after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>Wedgeworth won the 1978 Tony award for best featured actress in a play for her performance in Neil Simon&#8217;s \u201cChapter Two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She acted in soap operas and also found success in Hollywood with roles alongside Gene Hackman in the 1973 film \u201cScarecrow\u201d and Robert De Niro in \u201cBang the Drum Slowly\u201d the same year.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s perhaps best known for the TV sitcom \u201cThree&#8217;s Comedy,\u201d where she played Lana Shields, an older woman with her eyes set on her young neighbour Jack, played by John Ritter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Actress Ann Wedgeworth, who gained fame on film and Broadway before taking on the role of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":132267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[33927,33928],"class_list":["post-132255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-actress-ann-wedgeworth","tag-threes-company","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}