Acclaimed Oscar and Tony Award winning actress Patricia Neal has died at the age of 84.

Best remembered for her stunning performance alongside Paul Newman in “Hud,” the role that garnered her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1963, Neal also was a noted stage star winning a Tony for her Broadway role in “Another Part of the Forest”.

Scifi fans know her as the woman willing to trust a strange alien known as Klaatu in the huge 1951 scifi Robert Wise blockbuster film “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” which also starred Michael Rennie and Sam Jaffe.

Neal’s long and illustrious career brought moviegoers some of the best films in Hollywood history, films such as, “The Fountainhead,” the Otto Preminger/John Wayne classic war film “In Harm’s Way,” “A Face in the Crowd” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”.

Ms. Neal’s health was plagued by a series of strokes beginning in the mid 1960’s but she battled through them all and continued with a lively career that would see a return to the stage and film, as well as a successful television career.

Patricia Neal died on Sunday from complications due to lung cancer.