Louise Lasser, an actress best known for her role as an Ohio housewife on the TV satire “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” dies at 87. Multiple outlets report that she became widely recognized for her performance in the pigtails-and-puffed-sleeves character who anchored the program’s comedic take on American domestic life. Earlier in her career, Lasser appeared in several films associated with Woody Allen, which she also married in their personal and professional partnership. Sources note that she was Allen’s second wife and that she appeared in movies including “Take the Money and Run,” “Bananas,” and “Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex.”
One outlet also reports that she later took roles beyond Allen’s films, including work connected to Lena Dunham’s series “Girls.” Across the reports, Lasser’s screen career is summarized as spanning both her widely recognized television work and her film appearances in Allen productions before and after their marriage.
