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Sally Kellerman, who played U.S. Army Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in “M*A*S*H,” has died.
Kellerman passed away Thursday morning at 84 in California after a battle with dementia, her son, Jack Krane, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The raspy-voiced beauty famously appeared in M*A*S*H as well as the 1986 comedy “Back to School,” opposite Rodney Dangerfield. She appeared in TV shows including “The Outer Limits,” “12 O’Clock High,” “Ben Casey,” “That Girl” and “Mannix.”
Of her iconic “M*A*S*H” role, she said she eventually welcomed always being remembered for it.
“There were times in my life when I felt I had to go out and prove that I’m not just Hot Lips,” she told The Post in the 2010 interview. “But at this point, just call me anything you want!”
“It was like summer camp,” she said of working with the late”M*A*S*H” filmmaker Robert Altman, who often advised her to “just giggle and give in.”
Besides her extensive roster of film and television roles, Kellerman also delved into music, releasing an album in the 1970s and performing live, including at New York’s Metropolitan room in 2010.
“I wanted to be the real deal,” Kellerman told The Post that year. “Who knew it would take me another 30 years to get to this place where I feel free?”
There was a time when Kellerman felt she was not cut out for Hollywood.
“All I ever wanted to”All I ever wanted to be was an actress,” she told film critic Roger Ebert in 1980. “But I was fat. I was always reading about those diets where you can have one ounce of protein every 17 days whether you need it or not.”
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