{"id":582843,"date":"2026-08-04T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582843\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:06:08","slug":"spider-man-no-way-home-actress-mary-rivera-dies-aged-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582843\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: No Way Home actress Mary Rivera dies aged 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Egida Rivera, the actress who played Ned Leeds&#8217; grandmother in Spider-Man: No Way Home, has died aged 82. <\/p>\n<p>Rivera acted opposite Jacob Batalon in the 2021 film as his character&#8217;s Lola, the Filipino word for grandmother, and was said to have been &#8220;very proud&#8221; of her appearance.<\/p>\n<p>According to her obituary, she died &#8220;peacefully&#8221; on 15 April in Honolulu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her husband Alejandro Rivera, four children, 11 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera appeared in one of the most memorable scenes from the third film in the Tom Holland superhero franchise, when Andrew Garfield&#8217;s Peter Parker emerges from the multiverse and meets Ned and Zendaya&#8217;s MJ to help them save their universe&#8217;s Spider-Man.<\/p>\n<p>The two best friends ask him to climb across the ceiling to prove that he really is Spider-Man, before Lola cuts in and asks him to clean a cobweb from a hard-to-reach corner of the room.<\/p>\n<p>As Ned and MJ try to find their own Peter Parker, Tobey Maguire, who played the superhero in the original 2000s&#8217; films, also appears and joins the gang.<\/p>\n<p>The film was followed by the recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/movie-reviews\/2026\/0730\/1585308-spider-man-brand-new-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>, in which Holland, Zendaya, and Batalon reprised their roles.<\/p>\n<p>Spider-Man: Brand New Day debuted with $932 million at the global box office, making it the second biggest opening weekend of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Egida Rivera, the actress who played Ned Leeds&#8217; grandmother in Spider-Man: No Way Home, has died aged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-582843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}