Emmy-winning actor Valerie Mahaffey has died at age 71. The Young Sheldon and Desperate Housewives star, who had been diagnosed with cancer, died May 30, her husband Joseph Kell confirmed.

Valerie Mahaffey, an Emmy-winning actress whose screen and stage work ranged from Shakespeare dramas to the hit 1990s TV series “Northern Exposure,” died May 30 in Los Angeles. She was 71.

Valerie Mahaffey at the Los Angeles Industry Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures “Sully” at The DGA Theater on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, in Los Angeles.

Valerie Mahaffey seen at the Los Angeles Industry Screening of Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures "Sully" at The DGA Theater on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, in Los Angeles.

She won an outstanding supporting actress in a drama series Emmy award for her portrayal of hypochondriac Eve on "Northern Exposure." Mahaffey also appeared on television in "The Powers That Be ...

LOS ANGELES — Celebrated actor Valerie Mahaffey, whose stage, film and television work ranged from Shakespeare to the hit 1990s series “Northern Exposure,” died at 71 after a battle with ...

Valerie Mahaffey, the Emmy Award-winning actress best known for her quirky roles in popular television dramas and comedies, has died at the age of 71. Mahaffey passed away on Friday, May 30, in ...

Actress Valerie Mahaffey attends the 44th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on August 30, 1992 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella ...

Mahaffey played Ashley Bennett for over 100 episodes from 1979 to 1981, and earned a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for the part. In 1992, she then won an Emmy for her work as the hypochondriac Eve ...

She won an outstanding supporting actress in a drama series Emmy award for her portrayal of hypochondriac Eve on "Northern Exposure." Mahaffey also appeared on television in "The Powers That Be ...

In short: Valerie Mahaffey, the American actor best known for her roles in Desperate Housewives and Young Sheldon, has died aged 71. The Emmy award winner died in Los Angeles after being diagnosed ...