Denise Nickerson Taken Off Life-Support

Above, Denise Nickerson and Jonathan Frid in Dark Shadows.

Sad news.

Actress Denise Nickerson has been taken off life support a year after suffering a stroke.

Nickerson starred in ABC-TV's Dark Shadows as Amy Jennings.

According to Fox News:

"Willy Wonka" actress Denise Nickerson has been taken off life support one year after suffering a stroke. 

Her son Josh, and his wife, Jasmine, announced the news via Facebook on Wednesday. "They just took off all the equipment. None of it was helping, but making her only more uncomfortable. We're telling her it's okay to let go." 

Nickerson's family also told TMZ that the 62-year-old has been taken off a respirator and she is no longer receiving medication.

To read more, go here.

UPDATE:

She passed away in her hospital room Wednesday evening, July 10 around 10:30 PM Colorado time.

Denise Nickerson From "Dark Shadows"

Left, Amy Jennings (Denise Nickerson) and Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) on "Dark Shadows."

Back in the late 1960s, Denise Nickerson appeared on the daytime spook-opera Dark Shadows as Amy Jennings, whose older twin brothers (played by the late Don Briscoe) Tom and Chris Jennings suffered supernatural fates.

Tom was made a vampire and Chris (as a decendant of Quentin Collins) was a werewolf.

Besides Dark Shadows, Nickerson also appeared in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the acclaimed made-for-television movie, The Neon Ceiling.

The U.K. Daily Telegraph has an article on Nickerson and the other actors who appeared in Willy Wonka.

In the article, it has been revealed that Nickerson's role in Willy Wonka caused some dental problems for her:

She played the spoilt gum chewing brat Violet Beauregard in the 1971 classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, .

But the role in the popular children's film came at a price for actress Denise Nickerson, who has revealed it nearly cost her her teeth.

Forty years on since she ballooned like a blueberry before our eyes, Nickerson says that she received a whopping 13 cavities in her teeth as a result from all the gum she was forced to chew.

The article includes photos of Nickerson, then and now. To read the article, go here.