Oscar-winning Patricia Neal US actress has died

Oscar-winning Patricia Neal US actress has died aged, 84 from lung cancer.

Neal won an Academy Award for role in the 1963 film Hud, but gave up acting two years later at the age of 39 after suffering a series of strokes.

Biography Patricia Neal

Date of Birth
20 January 1926, Packard, Kentucky, USA

Date of Death
8 August 2010, Edgartown, Massachusetts, USA (lung cancer)

Birth Name
Patsy Louise Neal

Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)

Spouse
Roald Dahl (2 July 1953 - 17 November 1983) (divorced) 5 children