{"id":29417,"date":"2026-06-21T12:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=29417"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:29:51","slug":"downton-abbey-star-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=29417","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Downton Abbey&#8217; Star Dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"333\">French actress Nathalie Baye, best known for her acclaimed film career and role in <em data-start=\"224\" data-end=\"250\">Downton Abbey: A New Era<\/em>, has been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, according to reports from her family.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"335\" data-end=\"589\">Lewy body dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and causes a progressive decline in thinking, memory, and movement. Symptoms can include hallucinations, confusion, muscle stiffness, tremors, and difficulty walking.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"855\">Born in 1948, Baye became one of France&#8217;s most celebrated actresses, winning four C\u00e9sar Awards and starring in films including <em data-start=\"718\" data-end=\"733\">Day for Night<\/em>, <em data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"747\">La Balance<\/em>, and <em data-start=\"753\" data-end=\"774\">Catch Me If You Can<\/em>. Most recently, she appeared as Madame Montmirail in <em data-start=\"828\" data-end=\"854\">Downton Abbey: A New Era<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French actress Nathalie Baye, best known for her acclaimed film career and role in Downton Abbey: A New Era, has been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, according to reports from her family. Lewy body dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and causes a progressive decline in thinking, memory, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=29417\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&#8216;Downton Abbey&#8217; Star Dies at 77&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29419,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29417\/revisions\/29419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}