Barbara Barrie, Oscar-nominated star of 'Breaking Away', dies at 95 with medical assistance under the New York law she championed

Barbara Barrie, who had campaigned for New York's Medical Aid in Dying law before it even took effect, became one of its earliest users when she died at her Manhattan home on Wednesday aged 95. Her daughter Jane Harnick confirmed the death was medically assisted after Barrie received a terminal cancer diagnosis. Barrie had also lived with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable lung disease she disclosed publicly in 2014, saying she was "living full steam ahead."

Her Oscar nomination came for playing Evelyn Stohler, mother to a teenage cyclist, in the 1979 coming-of-age film 'Breaking Away'.

Barrie won Best Actress at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival for 'One Potato, Two Potato' and earned a Tony nomination for the original Broadway cast of Sondheim's 'Company'.

New York's Medical Aid in Dying Act, signed by Governor Kathy Hochul and in force since August, allows terminally ill adults with under six months to live to self-administer prescribed medication.