Publicist Harlan Boll says Swit died on Friday at her home in New York City, likely from natural causes.
Loretta Swit with her M.A.S.H co-stars at the People’s Choice Awards in 1982. (Photo: Doug Pizac/AP)
The show aired for 11 years from 1972 to 1983, revolving around life at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, which gave the show its name.
Rolling Stone magazine put M.A.S.H. at number 25 on its list of the best TV shows of all time.
Her sexuality was played down and she wasn’t even called “Hot Lips” in the later years.
“Around the second or third year I decided to try to play her as a real person, in an intelligent fashion, even if it meant hurting the jokes,” Swit told Suzy Kalter, author of The Complete Book of M.A.S.H.
Swit appeared in all but 11 episodes of the series, which lasted nearly four times longer than the Korean War itself.
“One of the things I liked, with Loretta’s prodding, was every time I had a chance to write for her character, we’d get away from the Hot Lips angle and find out more about who Margaret was. She became more of a real person,” co-star Alan Alda told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018.
In 1983, she married actor Dennis Holahan, whom she’d met when he was a guest star on M.A.S.H. They divorced in 1995.
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