Sally Kellerman, the Oscar and Emmy nominated actor who played Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in director Robert Altman’s 1970 film “MASH,” died Thursday. According to her manager and publicist, Alan Eichler, Kellerman died of heart failure at her home in Los Angeles. She was 84 years old.

Sally Clare Kellerman was born in 1937 in Long Beach, California, the daughter of a piano teacher and an oil executive, moving to Los Angeles as a child and attending Hollywood High School.

Her initial interest was in jazz singing. She was signed to a contract with Verve records at 18 years old. She chose to pursue acting and didn’t put out any music until 1972 when she released the album “Roll With the Feeling.” She would sing on the side, and sometimes in roles, throughout her career, releasing her last album, “Sally,” in 2007.

She took an acting class at Los Angeles City College and appeared in the “Look Back in Anger” stage production with classmate Jack Nicholson and several other future stars. She mainly worked in television early in her career, with a lead role in 1962′s “Cheyenne” and guest appearances on “The Twilight Zone, “The Outer Limits,” “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” and “Bonanza.” Her appearance in the original “Star Trek” pilot as Dr. Elizabeth Dehner won her cult status among fans.

Kellerman had a career that spanned more than 60 years in television and film. In 1986’s “Back to School,” she played a college professor who was returning student Rodney Dangerfield’s love interest. She was also a regular in Altman’s films, appearing in 1970′s “Brewster McCloud,” 1992′s “The Player,” and 1994′s “Ready to Wear.”

Still, Kellerman would always be best known for playing Major Houlihan, a straitlaced, by-the-book Army nurse who rowdy doctors torment during the Korean War in the army comedy “MASH.” In the film’s pivotal scene, a tent where Houlihan is showering is pulled open, and she is exposed to an audience of cheering men. She carried on a sizzling affair with Major Frank Burns, played by Robert Duvall, demanding that he kiss her “hot lips” in a moment secretly broadcast over the camp’s public address speaker, earning her the nickname “Hot Lips.”

The film earned five Academy Awards nominations, but Kellerman’s best-supporting actress was its only acting nod, despite a cast that included Duvall, Donald Sutherland, and Elliot Gould. The movie would eventually turn into a TV series that lasted 11 seasons, with Loretta Swift in Kellerman’s role.

Kellerman would work into her 80s, with several acclaimed television performances in her final years. She starred in the comedy series “Decker” with Tim Heidecker and played comedian Mark Maron’s mother on his series “Maron.” On Thursday, Maron wrote on Twitter, “Sally Kellerman was radiant and beautiful and fun and so great to work with. My real mom was very flattered and a bit jealous. I’m sad she’s gone.”

In 2014 she was nominated for an Emmy for her recurring role on “The Young and the Restless.” Kellerman was married to television producer Rick Edelstein from 1970 to 1972 and movie producer Jonathan D. Krane from 1980 until he died in 2016. She is survived by her son Jack and daughter Claire.