Broadway and TV star Elizabeth Franz has passed away at the age of 84, her husband confirmed.

Broadway star Elizabeth Franz has died at the age of 84, her husband has confirmed.

The Tony Award-winning actor had been diagnosed with cancer.

Her husband Christopher Pelham told The New York Times that she died as a result of the disease and a “severe reaction” she suffered from the treatment.

She died at home on November 4 in Woodbury, Connecticut, reports The Sun.

Franz is best known for playing Linda Loman in a 1999 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

It was this role that earned her a Tony Award and solidified her name among other Broadway greats.

That production scooped four awards, including the one given to Franz for best featured actor in a play.

She was an award-winning actor. Picture: AP Photo/Kathy Willens

Miller himself praised the actor saying she “discovered in the role the basic underlying powerful protectiveness, which comes out as fury, and that in the past, in every performance I know of, was simply washed out”.