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Lindsay Lohan and Nancy Meyers are mourning actress Polly Holliday’s death at 88.
After news of Holliday’s death on Tuesday, Sept. 9, broke on Wednesday, Sept. 10, Lohan, 39, and Meyers, 75, who worked with the late actor on the 1998 family classic The Parent Trap, took to Instagram to pay tribute.
“So sad to hear of Polly Holliday’s passing. She was so kind and game and just wonderful in every moment in The Parent Trap,” Meyers, who wrote and directed The Parent Trap, wrote in an Instagram caption. She shared an image of Holliday acting in the movie alongside Lohan, who famously played 11-year-old twin characters in the film.
“I just saw her the other night in All The President’s Men,” Meyers added, noting another popular movie that Holliday appeared in. “She was fantastic in that film. My condolences to her loved ones and friends.”
Both Lohan and another Parent Trap star, Lisa Ann Walter, commented in response to Meyers’ post with their own tributes and comments in response to Holliday’s death. “Oh my goodness. 💔 what a beautiful woman inside and out. God bless and RIP Polly 🙏❤️🪽,” Lohan wrote on Thursday, Sept. 11.
Walter, 62, added in a comment shortly after Meyers initially shared the post that she was “just now putting together” that it was Holliday in 1976’s All the President’s Men. “She was wonderful and of course also [in] the parent trap,” Walter wrote. “RIP Polly.”
Before acting in The Parent Trap, Holliday rose to fame in the late 1970s on the sitcom Alice, for which she received three Emmy Award nominations. Holliday also appeared in well-known movies like Gremlins and Mrs. Doubtfire before she played Marva Kulp, Sr., the owner of the camp that Lohan’s twin characters Hallie and Annie meet at in the movie. (Walter famously appeared in The Parent Trap as Hallie’s nanny Chessy.)
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Holliday’s agent and longtime friend Dennis Aspland confirmed her death with The New York Times on Wednesday, Sept. 10. She died at her home in New York City; her death is thought to be a result of pneumonia. PEOPLE has reached out to Aspland for comment.
On top of Holliday’s four career Emmy nominations, she also won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards in 1979 and 1980 for her role in Alice. Holliday received two additional Golden Globe nominations in 1981 and 1984 for her performances in the series Flow and the television movie The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story, respectively.
