Celeste Holm, another of Hollywood’s golden generation has passed away at the age of 95.

The established actress who starred in many films and television shows as well as a solid career in the theatre died in her home in New York with her niece Amy Phillips confirming the news.

“She passed peacefully in her home in her own bed with her husband and friends and family nearby”

After she burst onto the scene in Broadway in 1939, she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Anne Dettrey, a colleague of undercover reporter Gregory Peck in the Oscar-winning drama Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) which was only her third feature-length film. She then secured two further nominations in the same category in 1949 (as nun Sister Scholastica in Come to the Stable) and in 1950 (as socialite Karen in the Hollywood classic All About Eve).

Her last great starring role was as Liz Imbrie in the musical High Society (1956) but she eventually chose to concentrate the rest of her career on Broadway as well as a few television roles which included a guest appearance as Kelly Gaine’s grandmother in Cheers while she also played Ted Danson’s mother in the box-office hit Three Men and a Baby (1987). Her final major contribution to the screen was as grandmother Hattie Green in the TV series’s Touched by an Angel and Promised Land.

She was married five times and is survived by two sons and three grandchildren.