Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a behind-the-lines surgical unit during the Korean War on the pioneering hit TV series “M.A.S.H.,” has died.

Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a surgical unit behind the lines of the Korean War on the hit TV series MASH, has died. She was 87.

Loretta Swit, who rose to fame as Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in the long-running M*A*S*H, died on Thursday at her home in New York City.