Texas Chainsaw Massacre Star Dies at 65

Marilyn Burns, who portrayed horror-film hero Sally Hardesty in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has died at the age of 65. "It is with sad news that I can officially confirm that actress Marilyn Burns passed away earlier today," her rep said in a statement, as per the Hollywood Reporter. "She was found unresponsive by a family member this morning" in her home in Houston.

Burns starred in the 1974 original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a horror classic about a family of cannibals that terrorizes a group of teenagers. She also appeared as "Patient on a Gurney" in 1994’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation—which also featured a young Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey—and, in an ironic turn, as Leatherface’s Grandma Verna in 2013's Texas Chainsaw 3D. In a 2004 interview with the Terror Trap, Burns said that when shooting wrapped on the original, she was " just so grateful it was over. I probably was the happiest girl alive." (More Marilyn Burns stories.)