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Eileen Ryan, actress from ‘Twilight Zone,’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and Sean Penn’s mother, dies at 94

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Eileen Ryan, an actress and the mother of actors Sean and Christopher Penn, has died. She was 94.

Eileen Ryan, an actress and the mother of actors Sean and Christopher Penn, has died. She was 94.

Eileen Ryan, an actress and the mother of actors Sean and Christopher Penn and musician Michael Penn, has died. She was 94.

Ryan’s representative Mara Buxbaum confirmed the news in a press release Monday.

Ryan’s death comes a week before what would have been her 95th birthday on Oct. 16. The actress died Sunday.

Throughout her career, Ryan appeared in numerous classic television shows, including “The Twilight Zone,” “Bonanza,” “ER,” “Matlock,” “Little House on the Prairie,” “NYPD Blue,” “Ally McBeal,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Men of a Certain Age,” “Private Practice,” “Prime Suspect” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Her film credits included 1989’s “Parenthood,” 2002’s “Eight Legged Freaks” and 2005’s “Feast.”

Ryan met actor-director Leo Penn in 1957 while rehearsing for a production of the Eugene O’Neill play “The Iceman Cometh” at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City.

Eileen Ryan attends the Paddle Out Protest at Malibu Surfrider Beach in Malibu, California, in 2006.Eileen Ryan attends the Paddle Out Protest at Malibu Surfrider Beach in Malibu, California, in 2006.

Eileen Ryan attends the Paddle Out Protest at Malibu Surfrider Beach in Malibu, California, in 2006.

The couple moved in together within a week of meeting and married a few months later. They remained married for 41 years until Penn’s death in 1998.

Together, they had three sons: actors Sean and Christopher Penn and singer-songwriter and composer Michael Penn.

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“She was a lioness,” Sean Penn said of his mother in his 2006 New Yorker profile. “Boy, she could dress down those authority figures. She was unintimidatable.”

According to the New Yorker, Ryan once said “all the passion I had for acting went into being a mother” and that she and her husband “had a great marriage.”

“We were never bored with each other,” she added. “We grew together.”

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Eileen Ryan, ‘Twilight Zone’ actress and Sean Penn’s mom, dies at 94

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