"A Christmas Story" star and two-time Oscar nominee Melinda Dillon died on 9 Jan. at the age of 83. A cause of death was not revealed, but her family shared the news in an obituary.
Dillon began her career in 1962 when she starred in the original 1962 stage production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" From there, she began acting on television and in films, including "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Absence of Malice," both of which earned her Oscar nods. In 1983, she took on what is perhaps her most recognisable role as the matriarch in the holiday classic "A Christmas Story."