American actress Joan Copeland, who starred in Broadway and TV shows such as Law and Order, has died at the age of 99.
Eric’s son told the Hollywood Reporter that he died in her sleep in her New York apartment.
Copeland was the sister of playwright Arthur Miller and once the sister-in-law of Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe.
She appeared on stage in Detective Story and Pal Joey and in soap operas such as Love of Life and Search for Tomorrow.
Among them was the evil Andrea Whiting in Search for Tomorrow, from 1967 to 1972, Gwendolyn Lord Abbott In One Life to Live. and twin sisters Maggie and Kay Logan in Love of Life.
He then appeared in The Edge of Night, How to Survive a Marriage and As the World Turns.
The real name of the actress was Joan Miller, however she changed it to Joan Copend, so that she does not have the same last name as her brother.
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She made her Broadway debut in 1948 and returned dozens of times in the decades that followed in productions such as Detective Story, 45 Seconds from Broadway and The American Clock.
The actress once told the New York Times that “since I was a little girl I had the germ of the scene”.
“It was like a big dream, like kids wanting to fly to the moon today. “Maybe I was unknowingly influenced by my brother,” he added.
Copeland, however, noted how difficult it was to find work on television and radio because of her relationship with her brother, who was blacklisted in 1957 after being convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to reveal the names of alleged communist writers. whom he had attended meetings.
Later in her career, Miller’s sister spent a decade as a judge on Rebecca Stein in the legal drama television series Law & Order, between 1991 and 2001.
Other series were “ER” and “Chicago Hope”.
She was married to bacteriologist George Kupchik from 1943 until his death in 1989.
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