Actress Jane Kean has passed away at the age of 90. She was best known for her role as Trixie in The Honeymooners’ television revival from 1960.
Kean’s niece, Deidre Wolpert, confirmed she had passed away on Tuesday in Burbank, Calif. due to complications from a fall. Kean is survived by Wolper, who is her sister Betty’s daughter, Wolpert’s husband and two children in addition to her stepson, Joseph Hecht Jr., and his wife and son.
According to LA Times, Kean divorced her first husband Richard Linkroum, then married her manager, Joe Hecht. Hecht passed away in 2006.
The Honeymooners started out as a sketch in the early 1950s on The Jackie Gleason Show. It starred Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden. Audrey Meadows played his wife Alice, who was Kean’s character’s best friend and neighbor. Art Carney played Kean’s on-screen husband, Ed Norton, who was best friends with Kramden.
Kean was also in starring roles on Broadway, in The Pajama Game and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? in the 1950s.
NY Times notes Kean launched a one-woman show at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood last year.