Canadian Actress Alberta Watson Dead of Cancer, at Age 60

Canadian Actress Alberta Watson Dead at 60

She built a strong career in the 1990s as a sexy older woman. She was marvelous (and did a full frontal nude scene well into her 40s) in Atom Egoyan's poignant drama, The Sweet Hereafter, one of my favorite movies. The film won the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes, and earned Egoyan an Oscar nomination as Best Director. Alberta was also tremendously sexy in David O. Russell's Spanking the Monkey, a film about mother-son incest, and In Praise of Older Women.

More recently, she was a regular on 24.