{"id":26326,"date":"2025-12-23T13:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26326"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:18:37","slug":"actress-helen-siff-dies-aged-88-after-battle-with-painful-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26326","title":{"rendered":"Actress Helen Siff dies aged 88 after battle with \u201cpainful illness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Actress Helen Siff, known for roles in films including The Karate Kid (1984), Don\u2019t Mess with the Zohan (2008) and Hail, Caesar! (2016) has died at the age of 88.The late performer\u2019s family confirmed that she passed away in Los Angeles after a long battle with a \u201cpainful illness\u201d on Thursday, December 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose who worked with Helen knew her not just as a talented performer, but as someone who brought professionalism, dedication and genuine kindness to every set,\u201d the family said in a statement shared with the Hollywood Reporter.\u201cShe understood that every role, no matter how large or small, was an opportunity to contribute something meaningful to the story being told.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Helen Siff, known for roles in films including The Karate Kid (1984), Don\u2019t Mess with the Zohan (2008) and Hail, Caesar! (2016) has died at the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":228,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26328,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26326\/revisions\/26328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}