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Lara Parker Dies: ‘Dark Shadows’ Scene-Stealing, Spell-Casting Witch Angelique Was 84

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Lara Parker, who found the role of a lifetime at just 28 years old when she was cast by Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis as the beautiful, vengeful and altogether evil witch Angelique Bouchard Collins, died Thursday, Oct.

12, in her sleep in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer. She was 84. Her death was announced by producer Jim Pierson of Dan Curtis Productions, on behalf of Parker’s family. “I’m heartbroken, as all of us are who knew and loved her,” said her Dark Shadows co-star and longtime friend Kathryn Leigh Scott in a statement. “She graced our lives with her beauty, talent and friendship, and we are all richer for having had her in our lives.” Parker, who also authored four popular Dark Shadows-related novels from 1998 to 2016, arrived on the supernatural soap opera in 1967, not long after Canadian actor Jonathan Frid had been cast as vampire Barnabas Collins.

Frid’s storyline changed the show from a moody, Gothic Jane Eyre-type serial into a flat-out horror show. When Curtis and the show’s writers decided to do a six-month story arc set in 1795 to show how Barnabas had become a blood-sucker, they set about finding an actress who could play the witch who had set the curse on him way back when.

Though some cast members had imagined a raven-haired sorceress, producer and creator Curtis apparently saw something in the blonde, green-eyed, Southern-accented Parker that screamed Martinique witch.

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