Actress Penelope Milford, nominated for an Academy Award in 1979 for her role in Hal Ashby’s Coming Home, has passed away.

The stage and screen star died Tuesday in Saugerties, New York, according to Variety. Her brother, Doug Milford, confirmed her death. A cause was not immediately available. She was 77.

Milford began her New York stage career in 1971, co-starring with Richard Gere in the Off-Broadway production Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone, based on Richard Farina’s life.

Milford debuted on Broadway in 1972 in Julian Barry’s Tony Award-winning play Lenny. Three years later, she earned a Drama Desk nomination for Featured Actress in a Musical for Shenandoah.

During this time, Milford also began appearing in films. She had a role in Norman Mailer’s 1970 independent film Maids

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