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LOS ANGELES - Nina Foch, who often played cool, calculating women in films, theatre and television and later became a respected acting coach, has died at age 84.

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In this file photo released by ABC, actress Nina Foch appears in a scene from "A Lesson in Loving".

Her son, Dr. Dirk De Brito, told the Los Angeles Times that Foch died Friday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre.

The cause of death was complications from a blood disorder.

Foch made her film debut in 1943 and appeared in such movies as "An American in Paris," "The Ten Commandments," "Spartacus," "Rich and Famous" and "Sliver."

She appeared on Broadway in "Twelfth Night" and "King Lear."