Rebecca Luker was a best actress Tony nominee in 1995 playing Magnolia in “Showboat,” a best actress nominee in 2000 for playing Marian in “The Music Man” opposite Craig Bierko, and a best featured actress nominee in 2007 as Winifred Banks in “Mary Poppins.”
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Ozark was one of the big hits of 2020 with season three attracting record viewers. According to figures from Nielsen earlier this year, a record 975,000 viewers tuned in for an average of a minute to watch the show on its day of launch on Netflix. The show was even bigger than runaway hit Tiger King after season three of Ozark dropped at the start of the global lockdown.
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Rebecca Luker was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease closely related to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s just one year ago. The actress has had a long-standing career working on stage, in the likes of The Phantom of the Opera and Mary Poppins.
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FILE - Rebecca Luker, left, and her husband Danny Burstein arrive at the 73rd annual Tony Awards in New York on June 9, 2019. Luker, 59, a three-time Tony nominated actor who starred in some of the biggest Broadway hits of the past three decades, died Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, said Sarah Fargo, her agent. The actor went public in 2020 saying he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as A.L.S. or Lou Gehrigâs disease. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) December 23, 2020 - 7:13 PM
LOS ANGELES - Soprano Rebecca Luker, a three-time Tony nominated actor who starred in some of the biggest Broadway hits of the past three decades, died Wednesday. She was 59.