Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds has died aged 84, just a day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, a popular actor and author.
Her death was made known by her son, Todd Fisher.
Reynolds died just hours after she was taken to Cedars Sinai medical center from her son’s house in Beverly Hills on Wednesday afternoon.
Carrie Fisher, it was learnt, suffered a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles on Friday.
Her mother posted on her Facebook page on Christmas Day that Fisher was in a stable condition.
Two days later, Carrie Fisher was reported dead.
On Tuesday, Reynolds took to Facebook to mourn the death of her daughter.
After news of Reynolds’ own death broke on Wednesday, Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd, posted a picture on Facebook of herself with her late mother and grandmother at the 2015 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Reynolds was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars in the 1950s and 1960s.
Born Mary Frances Reynolds, she was a bubbly singer, dancer and actress who starred in “Singin’ in the Rain” and “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.”
But despite her star power, she treated everyone with respect, her publicist Ed Lozzi said.
