Penelope Milford, who received an Oscar nomination for her supporting turn as Jane Fonda’s bohemian roommate in Hal Ashby’s Coming Home and portrayed a silent-film star in Ken Russell’s Valentino , has died. She was 77.

Milford died Tuesday in an assisted living facility in Saugerties, New York, her sister, Candace Saint, told The Hollywood Reporter . The cause of death was not revealed.

Milford, who appeared twice on Broadway early in her career, also played the fiancée of Don Murray ’s character in Franco Zeffirelli ’s Endless Love (1981) and was the hippie Westerburg High School guidance counselor Pauline Fleming in Michael Lehmann’s Heathers (1988).

Penelope Milford, who received an Oscar nomination for her supporting turn as Jane Fonda’s bohemian roommate in Hal Ashby

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