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Debbie Reynolds: A life in pictures

US actress Debbie Reynolds born on April 1st, 1932 has died, reportedly after a stroke, at the age of 84 at a hospital in Los Angeles. She died on December 28th, 2016, one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher, known for her Princess Leia role in Star Wars series, died after suffering a heart attack. Reynolds was best known for her role in the 1952 film, 'Singin' in the Rain'

Thu 29 Dec 2016

Debbie Reynolds (L) and Carrie Fisher arrive at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on September 10th, 2011. Reynolds, star of the 1952 classic "Singin' in the Rain" died on December 28th aged 84. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/AP

US actors Elizabeth Taylor (L), Eddie Fisher (C), and Debbie Reynolds (R) at the opening of Eddie Fisher's show at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1958. Photograph: Joe Buck/EPA

(L-R) Welsh singer Tom Jones, US singer and actress Debbie Reynolds, Liberace and others toast during a birthday party for Jones at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1974. Photograph: LVNP/EPA

People walk past the star for Debbie Reynolds on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California, on December 28th, 2016, after the death of the actress. Photograph: Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images

Debbie Reynolds (C) and son, filmmaker Todd Fisher, and daughter, actress Carrie Fisher, arrive at a luncheon hosted by the American Film Institute in September 1998. Photograph: Retuers

Debbie Reynolds (L) and daughter Carrie Fisher (R) arriving at The Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, in February 2007. Photograph: Brian Jones/EPA

Debbie Reynolds gestures as she is interviewed at a preview of her vast Hollywood costume and prop collection in Beverly Hills on June 6th, 2011. Photograph:Fred Prouser/Reuters

Debbie Reynolds (L) accepts the life achievement award from her daughter Carrie Fisher at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California, 2015. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

Reynolds poses atop her newly unveiled star in the live theater and stage category on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Photograph: Reuters

Debbie Reynolds poses backstage with her Lifetime Achievement award with her granddaughter Billie Catherine (R) and daughter actress Carrie Fisher (L) at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, in 2015. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

Working long hours on the set of 'Say One For Me,' so she can fly to Spain and start another movie, actress Debbie Reynolds is visited at the studio by her children, Carrie (2) and 1-year-old Todd, in 1959. Photograph: AP

Debbie Reynolds in London celebrating her 78th birthday in 2010. Photograph:Stefan Rousseau/PA

Eddie Fisher (L), Debbie Reynolds (R) with casino owner Wilbur Clark (C) at Clark's Desert Inn in Las Vegas in 1954. Photograph: EPA.

Debbie Reynolds (L) joking around with US actor and martial artist Chuck Norris (R) at the Stardust in Las Vegas, 1967. Photograph: EPA

Debbie Reynolds poses on a grand piano at a New York restaurant in 1982, as she promotes the revival of the hit musical 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown.' Photograph: Marty Lederhandler/PA

Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, at Fisher's home in Beverly Hills, California in 2010. Photograph: Kevin Scanlon/The New York Times

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