Lara Parker, known for her role of Angelique Bouchard Collins on ‘Dark Shadows,’ died at age 84.
Lara Parker, best known for her role as the witch Angelique Bouchard Collins on the late ’60s horror TV series Dark Shadows, died on Thursday, Oct. 12, Extra TV reports. She was 84.
Parker was born Mary Lamar Ricke in Knoxville, Tennessee on Oct. 27, 1938. Her death was announced and mourned by her friend and Dark Shadows co-star Kathryn Leigh Scott, who posted about the “sad news” on Facebook.
“My beautiful, beloved friend Lara Parker passed away Thursday, October 12,” Scott wrote. ” I’m heartbroken, as all of us are who knew and loved her. She graced our lives with her beauty and talent, and we are all richer for having had her in our lives.”
She noted that to Parker, “family meant more than anything,” and that “they have wanted these few days since her passing to themselves.”
“Rest in peace, my cherished friend,” she continued.
The ABC gothic soap opera that starred Parker became most popular ten months after its June 1966 debut, when Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), a vampire who escaped from its coffin after being in there for 200 years.
