NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Stage actress Irma St. Paule -- who claimed to be 80, though colleagues said she might have been the oldest actress working in New York -- has died.
St. Paule worked all the way up until her final few months, and then died Tuesday, Playbill.com reported.
The actress's last show was the Transport Group's off-Broadway revival of Tad Mosel's "All the Way Home," in which she played an elderly woman living in seclusion at her rustic home.
St. Paule had no lines, but did not need them during her encounter with her character's great-grandson.
"The scene in which this aged creature (in a magnificent performance from Irma St. Paule) briefly holds the boy and then silently weeps when he is taken away from her is hardly the defining moment of Mosel's drama," wrote Variety. "But in the stunning staging of their encounter, it is the most moving one."
