Helen Slayton-Hughes, a prolific character actor with small elements in scores of tv exhibits and movies however greatest recognized for her recurring function as courtroom stenographer Ethel Beavers on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, has died. She was 92.

Her household introduced her dying on Fb yesterday, writing, “Helen handed away final night time. Her ache has ended however her fierce spirit lives on. Thanks for the love and help of her and her work. Relaxation candy one. -With love: The Hughes household”

No further particulars had been instantly accessible.

Coming late in life to skilled TV and movie appearing – she had carried out continuously on stage within the San Francisco space, and elsewhere, for a few years – Slayton-Hughes earned her first movie and television credit within the early Eighties, with appearances within the Albert Finney-Diane Keaton function Shoot The Moon and the Valerie Bertinelli TV-movie The Princess and the Cabbie.

She turned her consideration to performing extra critically within the early 2000s, with roles as aged girls on Nash Bridges, The Drew Carey Present, Judging Amy, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, Malcolm within the Center, Arrested Improvement, My Title is Earl, True Blood, Veronica Mars, The Center and Recent Off the Boat.

Her signature function arrived in 2011, when she joined Parks and Recreation. Over the subsequent 4 seasons and 11 episodes, she would play Ethel Beavers, the deadpan, no-nonsense stenographer surrounded by the eccentrics of the Pawnee native authorities workplaces. In a single memorable Season 3 episode, the over-confident women man Tom (performed by Aziz Ansari) makes an attempt to appeal Ethel, who may have none of it. In a Season 5 episode, April (Aubrey Plaza) and Andy (Chris Pratt) present up at Ethel’s home late at night time to get her signature on a wedding license, solely to seek out the stenographer in any other case occupied by a date that went nicely.

Requested by April and Andy whether or not Ethel would consent to be their adopted grandmother – a typical TV sitcom sentimental trope – Ethel shrugged it off with an unenthusiastic “advantageous.”

Final 12 months, after being forged within the Ed Helms Peacock sitcom Rutherford Falls, Slayton-Hughes tweeted, “I’m thrilled and honored to have even the teeniest of elements (although that of a powerful girl on her birthday) in Rutherford Falls – on Peacock in April!…the present is SO particular! Don’t miss it!”