Story highlights Sawyer appeared in a multitude of roles on screen and stage

She said she was happy never becoming a big star

(CNN) Connie Sawyer, who was the oldest working actress in Hollywood, has died at 105, her daughter Lisa Dudley tells CNN.

Sawyer suffered a heart attack and later died on January 21 at the Motion Picture Television Fund retirement home where she resided, according to Dudley.

The character actress appeared in multiple film and television projects over the years, including roles in "Archie Bunker's Place," "Will & Grace" and "When Harry Met Sally." More recently, she appeared as the mother of James Woods's character in the Showtime series "Ray Donovan."

"I loved working on 'Donovan' -- my son was a hit man, and I really got to cuss," she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015.

Sawyer was born Rosie Cohen in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1912 (the same year the Titanic sank) to a Jewish family from Romania.

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