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Actress Barbara Bel Geddes, best known for her role playing Miss Ellie in TV soap opera Dallas, has died at her home in Maine aged 82.

Although most widely remembered for her Dallas role, for which she won an Emmy in 1980, Bel Geddes had a long career in Hollywood.

She was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actress for the 1948 drama I Remember Mama, and was in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.