Helen Slayton-Hughes, a prolific character actor with small parts in scores of television shows and films but best known for her recurring role as court stenographer Ethel Beavers on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, has died.
She was 92. Her family announced her death on Facebook yesterday, writing, “Helen passed away last night. Her pain has ended but her fierce spirit lives on.
Thank you for the love and support of her and her work. Rest sweet one. -With love: The Hughes family” No additional details were immediately available.
Coming late in life to professional TV and film acting – she had performed frequently on stage in the San Francisco area, and elsewhere, for many years – Slayton-Hughes earned her first film and tv credits in the early 1980s, with appearances in the Albert Finney-Diane Keaton feature Shoot The Moon and the Valerie Bertinelli TV-movie The Princess and the Cabbie.
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