Broadway Actress Laurel Griggs Dies at 13

Saturday Night Live and Broadway actress Laurel Griggs had died. She was 13-years-old. Griggs’ family has set up an online memorial page in her memory. According to the page, Griggs died on November 5th. The family held her funeral on November 8th at Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York City. Her cause of death has not been revealed to the public. Griggs made her Broadway debut performing in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when she was six years old. She went on to play Ivanka in a 17-month run of Once on Broadway. She played the character longer than anyone else in the production’s history.

Griggs began appearing in television in film in 2015. She had a role in Louie and in the film Cafe Society. She also appeared in episodes of Saturday Night Live in 2017. One standout sketch was “Visit with Santa,”.

 

Griggs’ family has received an outpouring of support on her memorial page. Visitors to the page can send sympathy gifts, add memories to the page.

 

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