Mary Rivera, who played the grandmother of Ned (Jacob Batalon) in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, has died.
In a statement, her family told TMZ that she had a stroke and were told that, if she ever came out of her coma, her “prognosis would not be good,” so they decided to take her off life support.
She died April 15 and has since been cremated.
Rivera is survived by her husband Alejandro, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
In May 2022, her daughter Angie Kelly told Hawai’i Public Radio how her mom had snagged the part of the grandmother of Batalon, who’s also from the state.
“I happened to be on a friend’s Facebook scrolling, and I see an ad, a casting call looking for a local Hawaiʻi Filipina grandmother between the age of 50 and 90.,” Kelly said. “And immediately I thought, ‘Oh, well my mom qualifies and checks off all those boxes.'”
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