(WTVO) — Actress Louise Lasser, best known for her Emmy-nominated starring role in the groundbreaking 1970s television satire Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, has died at the age of 87. Lasser died Monday at her Manhattan home of natural causes, according to her longtime friend Susan Charlotte, who confirmed the news to multiple media outlets. Lasser became a television icon in 1976 when she took on the title role in Norman Lear's syndicated soap-opera parody Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.