Heather Menzies-Urich, the star actress who portrayed Louisa von Trapp in The Sound Of Music, has died aged 68.
Heather dying was launched by the property of the musical’s creators, Rodgers & Hammerstein, on Christmas Day.
Based totally fully completely on her son to US information web site, TMZ, the Canadian-born Menzies-Urich was acknowledged with concepts most cancers spherical four weeks to this point and died on Christmas Eve surrounded by her family.
“She was an actress, a ballerina and beloved dwelling her life to the fullest,” he talked about.
“She was not in any ache nonetheless, virtually four weeks after her evaluation of terminal concepts most cancers, she had passable and took her remaining breath on this earth at 7:22 pm,”.
Rodgers & Hammerstein president Ted Chapin talked about: “Heather was part of ‘the family’. There could also be truly no fully completely completely completely totally different quite a few to make clear the members of the sturdy of the movie of ‘The Sound of Music’.
“And of ‘the kids’, Heather was a cheerful and constructive member of the group, recurrently hoping for the following gathering. We're all lucky to have acknowledged her, and he or she goes to fortuitously keep on in that beautiful movie. We'll miss her.”
She was a 14-year-old with no performing experience when she landed the part of third-oldest von Trapp daughter, Louisa, in 1964
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