
Actress Claire Malis Callaway, star of television, film and the stage, has passed away. She was 69.
Callaway died August 24 of congestive heart failure and pneumonia at City of Hope Helford Clinical Research Hospital in Duarte, California. She had undergone a stem cell transplant in 2010 in a battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
As Claire Malis, she played Rose Polniaczek, the divorced mother of Nancy McKeon’s character, on THE FACTS OF LIFE. The show is currently running in syndication on The Hub and just last week played two of her episodes, when Jo and Blair graduated from Eastland.