Actress Lee Chamberlin dies

Actress Lee Chamberlin has lost her fight with cancer at the age of 76. The star, who had been living in Paris, France, passed away on 25 May (14) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, while visiting her son Matthew.
Born Alverta La Pallo, Chamberlin rose to fame in 1971 as an original cast member of educational children’s show The Electric Company, on which she co-starred with Bill Cosby, Rita Moreno and a young Morgan Freeman.
Chamberlin went on to work on the stage, appearing in a 1973 production of Shakespeare’s King Lear in New York’s Central Park, opposite James Earl Jones as the title character, and she also carved out a career in film, with credits in Sidney Poitier’s 1970s movies Uptown Saturday Night and Let’s Do It Again.
Her other roles included parts on TV comedy series Diff’rent Strokes, police drama Paris and U.S. soap opera All My Children, in which she played Pat Baxter from 1983 to 1995.