Conchata Ferrell, the three-time Emmy nominee who portrayed
the sarcastic housekeeper and Grateful Dead fan Berta for all 12 seasons of the
CBS comedy ‘Two and a Half Men’, has died on Monday. She was 77, reports
Hollywoodreporter.com.
The actress died of complications following a cardiac arrest,
KABC entertainment reporter George Pennacchio reported.
On the big screen, Ferrell was widely appreciated for her
role as frontier housekeeper in 1979
released film ‘Heartland’ (1979) and as the salty owner in 1998 released film ‘Mystic
Pizza’. She received her first Emmy nomination in 1992 for her recurring role
as the powerful attorney Susan Bloom on NBC’s ‘L.A. Law’, then was nominated
again in 2005 and 2007 for ‘Two and a Half Men’.
More recently, she appeared on the Netflix show The Ranch.
Born on March 28, 1943, in Loudendale, West Virginia,
Ferrell attended West Virginia University and Marshall University and starred
with Judd Hirsch in the 1973 original off-Broadway production of the Lanford
Wilson comedy The Hot l Baltimore, reports Hollywoodreporter.com.
Her work also includes ‘Network’ (1976), ‘True Romance’
(1993), ‘Heaven & Earth’ (1993), ‘Freeway’ and ‘Frankenweenie’ (2012).
