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Collin Wilcox-Paxton, 74, the actress who portrayed the false accuser in the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died Oct. 14 of brain cancer in North Carolina, her husband, Scott Paxton, confirmed Thursday.
Her part in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer-winning novel, was brief and memorable. She played Mayella Ewell, the young white woman who accuses a black man of rape. She angrily breaks down as defense attorney Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck, suggests she lied to avoid abuse from her racist father. The black defendant is convicted anyway.
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