No Country For Old Men and Texas Chainsaw Massacre actress Kathy Lamkin dead at age 74

Actress Kathy Lamkin has died at age 74.  

Lamkin passed on April 4 after a brief battle with an illness, her family revealed to Deadline.  

Lamkin played the manager of Desert Aire trailer park in the 2007 film No Country for Old Men starring Javier Bardem and the Tea Lady in the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 

Actress Kathy Lamkin (pictured in No Country For Old Men) has passed after a brief battle with an illness, her family revealed to Deadline

‘Kathy will be missed by her family and friends,’ her family said, ‘and left an impact on all she that encountered during her life on this Earth.’  

Kathy was awarded a Screen Actors Guild Award as a member of the No Country For Old Men cast, which scooped up the honor for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the awards show in 2008.

Lamkin hails from Graham, Texas, and taught theatre arts at Codwell Elementary School in Houston before setting up Unicorn School of Acting and USA Theatre, according to Deadline.

In 2002 she began furthering her acting career by commuting between Houston and Los Angeles.

Lamkin hails from Graham, Texas, and taught theatre arts at Codwell Elementary School in Houston before setting up Unicorn School of Acting and USA Theatre, according to Deadline