\n The star, who is best known for playing the role of Geraldine Spellman in 2017, died in Paris on November 8, her agent Samantha Boyd has confirmed.\n<\/p>\n
\n Discussing the tragic news, she told industry magazine The Stage: “Lynne was always ready to try any role, to grow and learn and develop. She embraced life to the full.”\n<\/p>\n
\n A French fundraising page has been set up in her honour to fight motor neurone disease, the condition she suffered from before her passing away this month.\n<\/p>\n
\n It reads: “Our dear friend Lynne faced MND with her trademark wit and courage \u2014 and even in the toughest moments, she never lost her spark (or her sense of humour).\n<\/p>\n
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\n “In true Lynne fashion, she even left a gift in her will to ARSLA, the MND association here in Paris, to help others facing this awful illness.\n<\/p>\n
\n “If you’d like to honour her memory \u2014 and give this disease the middle finger (ARSLA’s brilliant campaign slogan!) \u2014 you might consider a small donation to support their work.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I can just imagine Lynne laughing at that and saying, ‘that’s the spirit \u2014 don’t make a fuss, but thank you, darling’.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Lynne Verrall enjoyed a successful acting career in both theatre and television, starring in things like Precious Bane and Staying Alive in the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The star, who is best known for playing the role of Geraldine Spellman in 2017, died in Paris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-286539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}