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Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards for their role in the popular comedy TV series M*a*s*h, died on Friday, according to her representative.
She died in her house in New York at the age of 87, said her publicist Harlan Boll of the BBC. She probably died of natural causes, although a forensic doctor’s report is pending.
On M*A*S*H, Swit played the US Army nurse Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan. The series, which followed a surgical hospital for mobile army during the Korean War, ran from 1974 to 1983 for eleven seasons.
Swit was nominated for numerous prices and appeared in almost every episode of the series, including the final, which made a record of 106 m US viewers.
The show remains one of the most successful and recognized series in US television history. The season finale was the most watched episode of a TV series in history when it ended in 1983.
As “Hot Lips”, Swit played a hard but vulnerable nurse of the army, who got the nickname after he had an affair with Maj. Frank Burns played by Larry Linville.
The show used comedy and pranks to tackle difficult topics such as racism, sexism and the effects of PTBs within the military. It was based on the book “Mash: A novel about three army doctors” from 1968, which was written by an army surgeon.
Together with M*A*S*H, Swit also appeared in other television programs, films and even in game shows about her career. She went to the Broadway stage in “Same Time, next year”, “Mame” and “Shirley Valentine”.
“The spectacle is not hidden from me, it reveals. We give you the license to feel,” she said in an interview with Star Magazine in 2010. “This is the most important thing in the world, because when you feel, you are dead.”