The actress from Twin Peaks and Carrie, Piper Laurie, passed away at the age of 91

The renowned actress Piper Laurie, who played Paul Newman's down-on-her-luck lover in "The Hustler" and the terrifying role of the controllingly religious mother in "Carrie," passed away at the age of 91, according to her management.

Laurie's compelling roles in "The Hustler" and "Carrie" earned her nominations for Academy Awards. Her portrayal of a repentant mother in the television series "Children of a Lesser God" earned her a Golden Globe Award, and she was also nominated for an Oscar.

In her biography, "Learning to Live Out Loud," she revealed that, after being born in Detroit in 1932 as Rosetta Jacobs, she changed her name to Piper Laurie at the insistence of a manager when she started performing professionally as a teenager.

Laurie appeared beside celebrities such as Ronald Reagan, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, and Paul Newman after signing a contract with Universal-International (now Universal Studios) at the age of 18.

After breaching her contract in the mid-1950s, she left Hollywood for 15 years, but she subsequently came back to play the torturous role of the fervently evangelical mother in "Carrie."