Valerie Perrine, the former Las Vegas showgirl whose career spanned decades in Hollywood and included an Oscar nomination for her role as Lenny Bruce’s drug-addicted stripper wife in Lenny, died Monday. She was 82.

Her death at her Beverly Hills home was announced by her friend and soulmate, Stacey Souther. Perrine had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2015, a condition that eventually limited her mobility and affected her ability to eat and speak.

“She faced Parkinson’s disease with incredible courage and compassion, never once complaining,” Souther wrote. “She was a true inspiration who lived life to the fullest — and what a magnificent life it was. The world feels less beautiful without her in it.”

Perrine received widespread acclaim for her performance as Honey Bruce in the 1974 film Lenny. She won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Her filmography also includes notable roles in Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Superman (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and Superman II (1980).

In 1975, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress (Drama), while winning Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as Honey Bruce in Bob Fosse’s Lenny.

Perrine also portrayed Carlotta Monti, mistress of W.C. Fields, in the biopic W.C. Fields and Me (1976). She gained recognition for playing Miss Eve Teschmacher, the loyal accomplice of criminal mastermind Lex Luthor, in Superman (1978), earning a 1979 Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised this role in Superman II (1980).