list of people with ovarian cancer list of people with ovarian cancer this is a list of notable people who have or had ovarian cancer, whose illness attracted publicity. this is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.ovarian cancer is a cancer that forms in or on an ovary. it results in abnormal cells that have the ability to invade or spread to other parts of the body. when this process begins, there may be no or only vague symptoms. symptoms become more noticeable as the cancer progresses. these symptoms may include bloating, pelvic pain, abdominal swelling, and loss of appetite, among others. common areas to which the cancer may spread include the lining of the abdomen, lymph nodes, lungs, and liver. acting name lifetime comments reference evelyn ankers 1918 – 1985 american film actress kathy bates 1948 – oscar-winning american actress (later treated for breast cancer and lymphedema), surviving laurie beechman 1953 – 1998 american actress/singer marcheline bertrand 1950 – 2007 american film actress; mother of angelina jolie and james haven diem brown 1980 – 2014 american reality tv star (the real world and road rules; died at age 34, nine years after diagnosis) márcia cabrita 1964 – 2017 brazilian actress ann carter 1936 – 2014 american child actress (the curse of the cat people) veronica castang 1938—1988 british film, stage and television actress carol channing 1921 – 2019 american stage and musical comedy actress cayle chernin 1947 – 2011 canadian actress, writer, and producer caitlin clarke 1952 – 2004 american actress sandy dennis 1937 – 1992 tony award and oscar-winning american theater and film actress diana dors 1931 – 1984 british actress, also known as diana d'ors susan fleetwood 1944 – 1995 british film actress lovette george 1961 – 2006 american actress and singer lynda gibson 1956 – 2004 australian comedian and actress marjorie gross 1956 – 1996 canadian comedian and television writer/producer (seinfeld) dolly haas 1910 – 1994 german-american actress and singer joan hackett 1934 – 1983 american actress cassandra harris 1948 – 1991 australian actress; first wife of pierce brosnan (died at age 43; cassandra harris's mother, mrs. roma waites, and harris' daughter, charlotte brosnan (aged 41), also both died of the disease) cecilia hart 1948 – 2016 american television and stage actress dianne heatherington 1948 – 1966 canadian film and television actress madeline kahn 1942 – 1999 american actress, singer and comedian tomoko kawakami 1970 – 2011 japanese voice actress grace keagy 1921 – 2009 american musical theatre, soap opera and television actress manisha koirala 1970 – bollywood actress and political activist, surviving joyce kulhawik 1952 – american film critic and boston television personality; former tv co-host of movie critic leonard maltin; surviving marjie lawrence 1932 – 2010 british actress sinnamon love 1973 – african american former pornographic film actress and director, surviving janet margolin 1943 – 1993 american film, stage, and television actress mariann mayberry 1965 – 2017 american actress marin mazzie 1960 – 2018 american actress and singer heather menzies 1949 – 2017 canadian-american actress and model; widow of actor robert urich. menzies-urich died on december 24, 2017, aged 68, from brain cancer mary millar 1936 – 1998 british actress, most famous as "rose" from keeping up appearances helen simpson morosini 1933 – 2005 mother of the late american singer/actress/activist dana reeve anita morris 1943 – 1994 american actress, singer and dancer akemi negishi 1934 – 2008 japanese film actress kate o'mara 1939 – 2014 english actress beverley owen 1937 – 2019 american actress julie parrish 1940 – 2003 american film, stage and television actress alice pearce 1917 – 1966 american comedic stage, film and television actress gilda radner 1946 – 1989 american actress/comedian (saturday night live) rachel rockwell 1969 – 2018 american actress, theater director and choreographer candida royalle 1950 – 2015 american pornographic actress, producer and director janet seidel 1955 – 2017 australian cabaret singer, jazz vocalist, pianist and music teacher; bell awards (2006) winner linda smith 1958 – 2006 british actress/comedian; head of the british humanists' association cobie smulders 1982 – canadian actress and model; surviving smita talwalkar 1954 – 2014 indian bollywood actress, director and producer jessica tandy 1909 – 1994 oscar-winning (driving miss daisy) british-born american stage, film and television actress tera wray 1982 – 2016 american pornographic actress, died of an apparent suicide celeste yarnall 1944 – 2018 american actress loretta young 1913 – 2000 oscar-winning (the farmer's daughter, 1947), american film and television actress arts name lifetime comments reference rita angus 1908 – 1970 new zealand artist and painter nancy graves 1939 – 1995 american sculptor, painter, printmaker, and filmmaker sally gross 1933 – 2015 american dancer, choreographer and teacher of dance barbara hammer 1939 – 2019 american filmmaker denise jefferson 1944 – 2010 american dancer/director of the ailey school tamara natalie madden 1975 – 2017 jamaican artist stephenie mcmillan 1942 – 2013 british set decorator suzanne mizzi 1967 – 2011 british-maltese glamour model, singer, interior designer and abstract artist miriam mone 1965 – 2007 county armagh-born irish fashion designer meryl o'loughlin 1933 – 2007 american casting director and talent executive mary oppen 1908 – 1990 american activist, artist, photographer, poet and writer melinda camber porter 1953 – 2008 british artist, author, poet, journalist and filmmaker beau st. clair c. 1952 – 2016 american film producer margi scharff 1955 – 2007 american artist business name lifetime comments reference dorothy brunson 1939 – 2011 american businesswoman; first african american woman to own radio and television stations patricia c. dunn 1953 – 2011 american businesswoman and former hewlett-packard executive evelyn lauder 1936 – 2011 vienna-born new york businesswoman, breast cancer awareness activist, and philanthropist music name lifetime comments reference marcia barrett 1948 – jamaican-born british singer, surviving eileen barton 1924 – 2006 american singer alma cogan 1932 – 1966 english singer/entertainer kartina dahari 1941 – 2014 malaysian singer holly dunn 1957 – 2016 american country music performer lorraine ellison 1931 – 1983 american soul singer susan fernandez (aka susan fernandez magno) 1956 – 2009 filipino singer, activist and academic frances ginsberg 1955 – 2010 american operatic soprano (died at age 55 from ovarian cancer; had previously been treated for breast cancer) joyce hatto 1928 – 2006 british pianist olga jackowska 1951 – 2018 polish rock singer shizuko kasagi 1914 –1985 japanese jazz singer and actress dixie lee 1911 – 1952 american singer; first wife of bing crosby (died three days before her 41st birthday) valisia lekae 1979 – american singer and musical theatre actress, surviving vange leonel 1963 – 2014 brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, journalist, blogger, novelist, playwright, feminist/lgbt activist connie needham 1959 – american dancer and former actress, surviving laura nyro 1947 – 1997 american singer-songwriter (died at age 49; her mother, gilda nigro, also died of ovarian cancer at age 49) dinah shore 1916 – 1994 american singer and actress hikaru utada 1983 – japanese-american singer-songwriter, surviving angela winbush 1955 – american rhythm and blues vocalist; surviving politics name lifetime comments reference professor dora nkem akunyili 1954 – 2014 nigerian politician and academic maryam babangida 1948 – 2009 nigerian first lady pam brown 1952 – 2011 american politician (died at age 58) tina brozman 1952 – 2007 american lawyer and judge anita connick 1967– american lawyer, judge and louisiana supreme court justice rosa delauro 1943 – us congresswoman (d-ct), surviving jeannie ferris 1941 – 2007 australian politician ella grasso 1919 – 1981 american politician; first woman ever to be elected a state governor in the united states in her own right judy kennedy 1944 – 2018 american politician, mayor of newburgh, new york from 2012-2018 laura knaperek 1955 – 2016 american politician, public official, and member of the arizona house of representatives lim bee kau malaysian politician, mp for padang serai from 1999 to 2009 mary i of england, née mary tudor 1516 – 1558 (died from either uterine cancer or ovarian cancer, aged 42) nancy mcdonald 1934 – 2007 american politician helen w. milliken 1922 – 2012 wife of former michigan governor william milliken and one-time michigan first lady natalie "nan" cornell rehnquist 1924 – 2005 wife of us supreme court chief justice william rehnquist ruth samuelson 1959 – 2017 american politician, member (2007–15) of the north carolina general assembly linda scheid 1942 – 2011 american activist, lawyer and politician (died at age 68, the day before what would have been her 69th birthday) joanna strathdee 1954 – 2015 scottish politician (died at age 60) susan tolchin 1941 – 2016 american political scientist haydee yorac 1941 — 2005 filipino public servant, law professor and politician science and medicine name lifetime comments reference dr barbara mary ansell 1923 —2001 british scientist and paediatric rheumatologist dr nadia chaudhri 1977 – 2021 pakistani-canadian neuroscientist vicky clement-jones 1948 – 1987 hong kong-born english physician dr. rosalind franklin 1920 – 1958 british chemist and crystallographer, linked to discovery of the shape of the double helix of dna hasri ainun habibie 1937 – 2010 indonesian physician and wife of president b. j. habibie; served as first lady of indonesia from 1998–99 gisela mosig 1930 – 2003 german-american molecular biologist janet rowley 1925 – 2013 american cancer researcher sports name lifetime comments reference marina baiul 1977- mother of ukrainian olympic figure skater oksana baiul raelene boyle 1951 – australian athlete, surviving maureen connolly 1942 – 2011 tennis great; first woman to win four grand slam titles in one year chris evert 1954 - american former world no. 1 tennis player. 7-time year-end world no. 1 singles player. evert won 157 singles titles and 32 doubles titles. stage 1c ovarian cancer; surviving myra nathalie kraft 1934 – 1969 wife of businessman and owner of the new england patriots football team, robert "bob" kraft sarabeth kusick 1948 – 2006 wife of american baseball player craig kusick (died at age 56); her husband died from leukemia (aged 57), nine months following her death shannon miller 1977 – american olympic gold-medalist gymnast; surviving roberta "bobbi" olson 1936 – 2001 wife of retired hall of fame baseball coach lute olson bernardine portenski 1949 – 2017 new zealand long distance runner writing name lifetime comments reference andrea adams 1946 – 1995 english bbc broadcaster, journalist and anti-bullying activist glenda adams 1939 – 2007 australian novelist and writer judith appelbaum 1939 – 2018 american editor, consultant and author carol bly 1930 – 2007 american essayist and short-story writer clare boylan 1948 – 2006 irish writer zenobia camprubí aymar 1887 – 1956 spanish-born (of catalan and puerto rican descent) writer, poet and translator bonnie christensen 1951 – 2015 american children's book author and illustrator claudia cohen 1950 – 2007 american socialite and journalist helen cresswell 1934 – 2005 british writer and author sara douglass 1957 – 2011 australian fantasy writer catherine gaskin 1929 – 2009 irish-australian novelist martha gellhorn 1908 – 1998 american war correspondent, novelist, journalist (committed suicide, aged 89, after ovarian cancer metastasized to her liver) debbie goad 1954 – 2000 american journalist and magazine publisher josephine hart, lady saatchi 1942 – 2011 irish-born british-based novelist pagan kennedy 1963 – american author, surviving francess lantz 1952 – 2004 american librarian, novelist and writer clarice lispector 1920 – 1977 brazilian prose writer norah mcclintock 1952 – 2017 canadian author ursula nordstrom 1910 – 1988 american book editor barbara park 1947 – 2013 american author of children's books doris pilkington garimara 1937 – 2014 australian author mary raftery 1957 – 2012 irish investigative journalist, filmmaker and writer amy krouse rosenthal 1965 – 2017 american author, filmmaker, and radio show host liz tilberis 1947 – 1999 british-born american-based fashionista; editor-in-chief of harper's bazaar joyce wadler 1948 – new york journalist and new york times columnist; surviving mari yonehara 1950 – 2006 japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer and novelist yvonne zanos 1950–2010 american television journalist (at kdka-tv) miscellaneous name lifetime comments reference christiane amanpour 1958 - journalist maria del carmen bousada de lara 1940 – 2009 world's oldest mother jill chaifetz 1964 – 2006 american lawyer and children's right advocate doris dungey 1961 – 2008 american blogger and analyst on economic and finance issues ann dunham 1942 – 1995 american anthropologist; mother of u.s. president barack obama robert eads 1945 – 1999 american female to male transsexual who was denied medical treatment for the