Denise Nickerson, best known for playing Violet Beauregarde in
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,
has died due to complications from a stroke she had last year.
Sure, she also appeared in some other things (I remember her from
The Electric Company* ), but most people remember her for swelling up and turning blue ("Violet, you're turning... violet!") and spawning an entire genre of inflation fetishism based on a single three-minute scene from a film that came out almost
fiiiiifty yeeeeears ago.
--Patrick
*Yes, that really
is Morgan Freeman introducing them at the start.