https://deadline.com/2020/10/conchata-ferrell-dead-two-and-a-half-men-co-star-77-1234596750/

Actress Conchata Ferrell passed away on October 12 at 12:30 PM PST, at the age of 77 as a result of complications following a cardiac arrest. She died peacefully surrounded by family at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks, California.

May she rest in peace.

https://abc7.com/conchata-ferrell-berta-two-and-a-half-men/7001388/

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Actress Conchata Ferrell, best known for her role as the acerbic housekeeper Berta on "Two and a Half Men," has died at age 77.

Ferrell died surrounded by family Monday of complications following a cardiac arrest.

Jon Cryer, her costar on "Two and a Half Men," offered a tribute to Ferrell via Twitter: "She was a beautiful human Berta's gruff exterior was an invention of the writers. Chatty's warmth and vulnerability were her real strengths. I'm crying for the woman I'll miss, and the joy she brought so many."

Ferrell had a decades-long career on stage, television and film. But it was her role on the 12-year run of the popular sitcom that brought her two Emmy Award nominations and the most recognition.


Over the summer as news emerged of Ferrell's heart attack, her many costars from over the years wished her well and praised her talents.

"She was a light. A beautiful spirit," Viola Davis tweeted in July.

Ferrell was also nominated for an Emmy in 1992 for her supporting role as attorney Susan Bloom on the drama "L.A. Law."

She appeared in films such as "Network," "Erin Brockovich" and "Mr. Deeds" and shows like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Hot L Baltimore," and "Matlock."

Very sad !:( I liked her, a very funny lady ! May she RIP !

I really enjoyed her role as Berta as well.

An appreciation of Conchata Ferrell: She was the queen of not taking any crap whom you wanted to watch in anything (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-10-13/conchata-ferrell-dead-the-kind-of-actor-you-wanted-to-see-in-everything)

"When I read that Conchata Ferrell (https://www.primetimer.com/people/conchata-ferrell) had died, I was suddenly, deeply and surprisingly sad," Mary McNamara says of the Two and a Half Men star, who died Monday at age 77. McNamara adds: "She was best known, as the many obits have noted, for her portrayal of Berta, the brash unflappable housekeeper in Two and a Half Men, and certainly she was my favorite part of that show, which I never warmed to and watched only sporadically. Berta, however, is not what I thought of when I learned of Ferrell’s death. Nor was any other particular role — not Susan Bloom, all cigarettes and crazy statement jewelry in L.A. Law, not Mystic Pizza’s Leona, with her kerchiefs and secret spices....It was none of those roles, and all of them, and more. It was the relief I felt when I saw that unmistakable silhouette move into view on any screen and waited for what would happen next because I knew it would be good. That electric zip of anticipation when a situation called for her to speak because I knew she would nail whatever bit of exposition, character development or comic relief she had been given firmly to the floor, so that everyone around her could continue their dance with ease. Ferrell was a character actor, the old-fashioned kind, who with her large and small roles in countless television series — from Maude to Grace and Frankie — and the occasional film, burrowed deep into my cultural psyche. I loved Ferrell first and foremost because she looked and sounded like my people — red-haired and rotund, but worldly-wise and dry rather than jolly. Her brand of comfort came in the form of a narrow appraising look and a flat-voiced but piercing retort that, as the best one-liners do, played more like disinterested observation." ALSO: Two and a Half Men vets Marin Hinkle, Melanie Lynskey and Yvette Nicole Brown pay tribute to Ferrell (https://deadline.com/2020/10/two-and-a-half-men-family-remembers-conchata-ferrell-charlie-sheen-jon-cryer-1234596798/).