伝説の M*A*S*H 星／主役にする Loretta Swit has died at the age of 87.?
Swit was known for playing the iconic character Major Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan on the 攻撃する，衝突する series.?
The actress died Friday at her home in New York City, her publicist Harlan Boll 確認するd.?
A police 報告（する）／憶測 明言する／公表するs that Swit passed of 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd natural 原因（となる）s soon after midnight on Friday, her publicist 株d with?The Hollywood Reporter.
The actress received acclaim for her 役割 on the series, and received two Emmys?for her 描写.?
In total, she earned 10 Emmy 指名／任命s for M*A*S*H and appeared in the 大多数 of the show's 11 seasons, gracing 審査するs for 240 of the program's 251 episodes.??
Loretta Swit pictured above surrounded by her? M*A*S*H* cast members, from left: マイク Farrell, William Christopher, Harry Morgan, Alan Alda, Jamie Farr, and David Ogden Stiers
Swit was known for playing the iconic character Major Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan on the 攻撃する，衝突する series
M*A*S*H was an adaptation of the?Robert Altman's 1970 film and was 始める，決める during the Korean war. It followed a team of US doctors and nurses at a fictional army hospital.?
It's series finale - of which Swit appeared in - was watched by 105 million テレビ視聴者s, making it one of the most-watched narrative TV episodes of all time.?
The 初めの Robert Altman film was a dark comedy that starred Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye Pierce, Elliot Gould as Trapper John McIntyre and Sally Kellerman as Hot Lips Houlihan, based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.
For the TV series, Alan Alda stepped into the Hawkeye 役割, with Wayne Rogers playing Trapper John and Gary Burghoff (レーダ O'Reilly) becoming the only cast member from the movie to reprise that 役割 for the TV series.
The half-hour comedy series was known for its ability to blend both comedy and 演劇, though Swit 以前 said she believes it was the humor that made the show stand out.
'最初 when we started out, everyone wondered how we were going to be able to pull off a comedy about the war, but we did. The secret behind M*A*S*H's success,' she told First for Women last year.
Swit 追加するd, 'Laughter and humor were our 弁護 against standing in 血 and working on 団体／死体s that were young enough to be in school.'
She 認める there was nothing inherently funny about war, but 追加するd, 'you needed the funniest people in the world to make this believable and this cast 越えるd that and more.'
Swit won two Emmys for playing Hot Lips, and had nothing but 賞賛する for the 称讃するd series finale.
Swit pictured in 2019 visiting Hallmark's Home & Family in 全世界の／万国共通の City, California
Swit won two Emmys for playing Hot Lips
'The last program, 肩書を与えるd Goodbye, was the jewel of the 栄冠を与える, and M*A*S*H was a very important piece of Americana, so it was an 栄誉（を受ける） to be a part of that 魔法,' she said.
M*A*S*H won 14 Emmy Awards, earned 109 指名／任命s, 加える the series took home a Peabody Award in 1975.?
Swit was born on November 4, 1937 in Passaic, New Jersey and …に出席するd the American 学院 of 劇の Arts in New York
Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Swit honed her （手先の）技術 as a student at New York's American 学院 of 劇の Arts, によれば THR. She 成し遂げるd in repertory.
For her work, she twice earned the Emmy for 優れた Supporting Actress In A Comedy or Variety or Music Series - once in 1980 and then again in 1982
に引き続いて a move to Los Angeles in 1970, she built up her 事実上の／代理 再開する with?役割s in on Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, 使節団: Impossible, and 結局 M*A*S*H.
Over the show's 11 seasons, she appeared in a 大多数 of the episodes that 含むd the 広範囲にわたって-watched season finale.
For her work, she twice earned the Emmy for?優れた Supporting Actress In A Comedy or Variety or Music Series - once in 1980 and then again in 1982.?
While she may be best known for her 役割 of Hot Lips, she wasn't fond of her character's 愛称.??
'I understand 愛称s come with 広大な／多数の／重要な love and 賞賛 for a character,' she told Fox News in 2023. 'But it was an 侮辱 as far as I was 関心d. She wasn’t just a piece of anatomy. She was a major in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs Army, and she should not be disrespected.'
'This was a woman who had 階級, who worked hard and 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be good at her 職業,' she said. 'She was an inspiration. I was proud of her. I was proud to 代表する all the servicewomen out there. I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to make a change.'
M*A*S*H wasn't the only iconic show Swit appeared in. Her 再開する also 誇るs 外見s in 殺人, She Wrote and The Love Boat.
She had an 外見 on The Muppet Show
The actress also had 役割s in a number of movies, 含むing ‘Freebie and the Bean’ in 1974, ‘Race With the Devil’ in 1975, 1981’s ‘S.O.B’ and ‘BoardHeads’ in 1998.
She co-starred と一緒に Tyne Daly in the 1981 操縦する for ‘Cagney & Lacey’, but could not continue in the 役割 when It was 選ぶd up, 予定 to contractual 義務s to ‘MASH’.
によれば her IMDb, she does have one more film coming out - a 役割 in the 近づいている 演劇 Second Chances.?
As far as her theatrical credits, THR 報告（する）／憶測s that Swit was also an active member of the theater community in Chicago and in 1991 she was 栄誉（を受ける）d with the Sarah Siddons Award for her 出資／貢献s to the theater.?
She starred in Shirley Valentine, a one-woman play, over 1,000 times and also became part of The Vagina Monologue's 小旅行するing cast in 2003.?
Loretta's 上級の high school yearbook photo in 1955
Loretta was a cheerleader in high school; pictured as a 上級の in 1955
Loretta pictured 中心 with her fellow cheerleaders as a junior in high school
Swit was born Loretta Jane Szwed on November 4, 1937, in Passaic, New Jersey.
She received a 星／主役にする on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989.
A 熱烈な animal 権利s 行動主義者, she was a vegetarian for many years before becoming a vegan in 1981.?
Loretta was a long-time 支持者 of the ASPA (American Society for the 予防 of Cruelty to Animals) and often fostered dogs.
She encouraged the 採択 of animals and when traveling alone she visited 救助（する） centres.
Another 原因（となる） that was の近くに to Loretta's heart was Actors and Others for Animals, a charity 始める，決める up by actor Richard Basehart to encourage celebrities to use their 星／主役にする 力／強力にする to help animals.
Swit was married to actor Dennis Holahan, from 1983 until their 離婚 in 1995.
