Hollywood actress, Kathryn Kates, who starred in Orange Is the New Black and Seinfeld, has died at the age of 73 after a battle with cancer.

In a statement to Deadline, her managers at Headline Talent Agency announced the ‘very brave and smart’ actress died in Florida on Saturday, January 22, 2022.

The statement read:

“Kathryn has been our client for many years, and we have grown much closer to her in this last year since she knew of her cancer returning. She was always incredibly brave and wise and approached every role with the greatest of passion. She will be greatly missed.”

Kates played Angie DeCarlo in The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark, and she participated in the short film Welcome to Sarajevo last year. She’d just finished filming a new project called Maybe There’s a Tree.

She is survived by Mallory, her sister, and Joshua, her brother.