Louise Troy
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Louise Troy (November 9, 1933, Manhattan, New York - May 5, 1994) was an American stage and screen actress who came from a family with deep roots in New York's Yiddish theater tradition. Her mother was an actress in the Yiddish theater, as was her maternal grandmother and two great-aunts. Troy studied with Lee Strasberg and at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, making her off-Broadway debut in 1954 in Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine and her Broadway debut the following year in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream, directed by Elia Kazan.
Troy built a substantial Broadway career over the following decade. She received Tony Award nominations for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for both Tovarich (1963) and Walking Happy (1966), and her signature stage role was the lead in High Spirits (1964). She was married to actor Werner Klemperer from 1969 to 1975, and later to actor and director Douglas Seale from 1992 until her death. Troy died of breast cancer in New York City in 1994 at the age of 60.
In Ghostbusters II (1989), Troy appeared as the Woman with Fur Coat, one of the film's most visually striking minor characters. The sequence (Chapter 21: "Tenth Level of Hell") takes place on New Year's Eve 1989 outside the Plaza Hotel. Troy's character walks along the sidewalk in a full-length mink coat over a gold evening dress and gold heels, stepping into a puddle of Psychomagnotheric Slime oozing up from beneath the city. The slime reanimates the dead minks in her coat, which begin snapping and attacking her; she tears the coat off and throws it to the ground, where it runs off snarling at passers-by. A second sequence shows another fur-coated woman whose coat is similarly reanimated after slime splashes on it from a nearby fountain. The character was adapted in NOW Comics Real Ghostbusters Starring in Ghostbusters II Part 3, where she is depicted with pink hair and a white fur coat rather than the film's red hair and gold-accented ensemble.
Her husband in the film was Douglas Seale, to whom she was married in real life from 1992 until her death two years later.