Hollywood actress, Lydia Clarke Heston, on Monday died at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, her family announced.
She was aged 95.
Lydia was married to Oscar-winning actor Charlton Heston for 64 years until his death in 2008.
A native of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and the daughter of a high school principal, she first met Charlton in drama class at Northwestern University and married him in 1944 in Asheville, North Carolina, just before he went overseas to serve in the Army Air Force during World War II.
After the war, the Hestons moved to New York, where they pursued acting careers. As Lydia Clarke, she performed on Broadway opposite Ralph Bellamy in Sidney Kingsley’s Detective Story, which premiered in 1949.
In 1952, she co-starred with Gene Barry in her first feature, the Cold War thriller The Atomic City.
She played a circus girl in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), which starred her husband.
Lydia is survived by her son, Fraser, daughter, Holly, and grandchildren Jack, Ridley and Charlie.
