Louise Lasser dies at 87

Louise Lasser, best known for her role on Normal Lear's quirky soap opera spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, has died at 87. Lasser was also married to Woody Allen from 1966 to 1970, and starred in his films Take the Money and Run, Bananas and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask). In 1962, she was Barbra Streisand's replacement in the Broadway show I Can Get It for You Wholesale. In the 1980s, she made three guest appearances on Taxi as the ex-wife of Judd Hirsch's Alex Reiger.

Notable TV credits include The Doctors, Love, American Style, The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, McCloud, Medical Center, It's a Living, Laverne & Shirley, St. Elsewhere, Empty Nest, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Girls. She also appeared in TV movies Class of '55, Coffee, Tea or Me?, Isn't It Shocking?, For Ladies Only, and Bedrooms.

Film credits include Slither, Stardust Memories, Crimewave, Surrender, Rude Awakening, Modern Love, Frankenhooker, The Night We Never Met, Happiness, Mystery Men, Queenie in Love, Gold Diggers and Funny Pages.