Actress Maureen O’Hara, famed for her flaming red hair and her role in The Quiet Man, has died aged 95. Her family confirmed in a statement that she passed away peacefully in her sleep Saturday. Born in Ranelagh, Dublin in 1920, O’Hara was the eldest of six children in the FitzSimons family. The Abbey Theatre-trained actor became a naturalised US citizen in 1946 and held dual Irish-US citizenship. Her early films included My Irish Molly and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but it was for director John Ford’s The Quiet Man (1952), in which she starred opposite John Wayne, that she will be best remembered. She had, they added, remained a champion of the arts, aviation and all things Irish throughout her life and never lost her joy and wonder of these pursuits. O’Hara was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame at an event in Wexford in 2011. She was also awarded an honorary Oscar last year, according to news agencies.
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