NEW YORK — Oscar nominee Barbara Barrie died by medically assisted suicide in New York following a terminal cancer diagnosis. She was 95 years old.

“On behalf of the Harnick family, I can confirm that her passing was medically assisted in accordance with the New York State Medical Aid in Dying law, of which she was a proponent and advocate,” Barrie’s rep said in a statement to multiple media outlets.

Her daughter, Jane Harnick, told the New York Times Barrie died Wednesday in her New York City home. The beloved actress was diagnosed with rectal cancer back in the ’90s, and she previously announced that she suffered from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which is a chronic and incurable lung disease.

Barrie’s death is among the first involving a high-profile figure under New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act, which Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law in February and took effect in August. It allows eligible terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less to request medication prescribed by a physician to end their lives.

Barrie’s career spanned the stage, television and film. She was born Barbara Berman in Chicago in 1931, and she grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she attended University of Texas at Austin. Following graduation, she headed to New York.

She shot to stardom in 1964, with her first starring film role in Julie Cullen Richards’ “One Potato, Two Potato.” She went on to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1979 for her performance as Evelyn Stohler in “Breaking Away” as well as an Emmy Award nomination in 1981 when she reprised the role for a television series based on the film.

Barrie also received two Emmy nominations for appearances on “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: SVU.” In addition, she starred on all four seasons of “Suddenly Susan,” an NBC sitcom that ran from 1996 to 2000, and appeared as Barney Miller’s wife Elizabeth in 11 episodes of the comedy series, “Barney Miller.”

Barrie meanwhile made her Broadway debut in 1955 with “The Wooden Dish.” Then, she appeared in “The Beaux Stratagem” in 1959, and in 1966, she starred in “Happily Never After.” She also scored a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical as the original Sarah in Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical “Company.” Some of her other credits include the original runs of “The Selling of the President” and “The Prisoner of Second Avenue.

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