Actress Jane Wyman Dead at 93

Wyman had been living in seclusion for a number of years because of declining health including arthritis and diabetes.

Jane Wyman image from the trailer for the film Stage Fright (1950). Image courtesy: wikipedia.org

(LOS ANGELES) - Jane Wyman an Academy Award, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated actress has died.

Wyman's career spanned several decades.

Her most prolific appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s, and included her best known film roles in Johnny Belinda and Magnificent Obsession opposite Rock Hudson.

Wyman became known to new generations in the 1980s, not only for her leading role as the malevolent matriarch Angela Gioberti Channing on the hit prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest, but also because of her prior marriage to former actor Ronald Reagan, who was then President of the United States.

In 1938, Wyman co-starred with Reagan in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940).

The two were married (her second or third marriage, and his first) on January 26th, 1940, and divorced on June 28th, 1948.

She and Reagan had three children; Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (1941 - 2001), Michael Reagan (adopted, born March 18th, 1945), and Christine Reagan (stillborn June 26th, 1947).

Wyman had been living in seclusion for a number of years because of declining health including arthritis and diabetes.