{"id":26635,"date":"2026-10-29T21:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/breaking-away-actress-barbara-barrie-dies-by-medically-assisted-suicide-reports-say-live-5-news\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T21:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:01:14","slug":"breaking-away-actress-barbara-barrie-dies-by-medically-assisted-suicide-reports-say-live-5-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/breaking-away-actress-barbara-barrie-dies-by-medically-assisted-suicide-reports-say-live-5-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Breaking Away\u2019 actress Barbara Barrie dies by medically assisted suicide, reports say &#8211; Live 5 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Gray News) &#8211; Barbara Barrie, known for her 1979 role in \u201cBreaking Away,\u201d died Wednesday by medically assisted suicide, according to her daughter in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/barbara-barrie-dead-breaking-away-actress-obituary-8628945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/people.com\/barbara-barrie-dead-breaking-away-actress-obituary-8628945\">The New York Times<\/a>. Barrie was 95.<br \/>Barrie had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and died in her New York City home, according to her daughter, Jane Harwick.<br \/>Barrie\u2019s agent, Gary Gersh, said her passing was \u201cmedically assisted in accordance with the New York State Medical Aid in Dying Law,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2026\/10\/28\/barbara-barrie-dead-medically-assisted-suicide\/92485629007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2026\/10\/28\/barbara-barrie-dead-medically-assisted-suicide\/92485629007\/\">USA Today<\/a>.<br \/>In addition to \u201cBreaking Away,\u201d which earned her an Oscar nomination, Barrie also starred in several TV shows, including \u201cBarney Miller\u201d and \u201cSuddenly Susan.\u201d She also received a Tony nomination for her performance in the original production of \u201cCompany.\u201d<br \/><i>Copyright 2026 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.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?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Gray News) &#8211; Barbara Barrie, known for her 1979 role in \u201cBreaking Away,\u201d died Wednesday by medically assisted suicide, according to her daughter in a statement to The New York Times. Barrie was 95.Barrie had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and died in her New York City home, according to her daughter, Jane Harwick.Barrie\u2019s agent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}