Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy awards for her role on the popular comedy TV series M*A*S*H, died on Friday, according to her representative, APA reports citing BBC.
She died at her home in New York at age 87, her publicist Harlan Boll told the BBC. She likely died of natural causes, although a coroner's report is pending.
On M*A*S*H, Swit played US Army nurse Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan. The series, which followed a mobile Army surgical hospital during the Korean war, ran for 11 seasons from 1974 to 1983.
Swit was nominated for numerous awards, and appeared in nearly every episode of the series, including the finale which attracted a record 106m US viewers.
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