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Conchata Ferrell, actress who played housekeeper on ‘Two and a Half Men,’ dies at 77

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October 15, 2020 at 1:41 p.m. EDT
Conchata Ferrell appears as Berta the housekeeper alongside Jon Cryer as Alan Harper in the sitcom “Two and a Half Men.” (Monty Brinton/CBS via Getty Images)

Conchata Ferrell, who became known for her role as Berta the housekeeper on TV’s “Two and a Half Men” after a long career as a character actor onstage and in movies, including “Mystic Pizza” (1988) and “Network” (1976), died Oct. 12 at a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 77.

The cause was complications from cardiac arrest that she suffered in May, said her husband, Arnold Anderson.