By Ranjan Bhaduri,
Dec.22, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A day after the world lost Brittany Murphy, comes the news of the death of Alaina Reed Amini of the ‘Sesame Street’. The 63-year-old Broadway star succumbed her battle to breast cancer after fighting it for two years. Billy Laurence, who is the star’s publicist, said that Amaina Reed’Amini, who played the character of Olivia Robinson in ‘Sesame Street’ was admitted in the St. John’s Health Center located in Santa Monica, where she lost her life on the 17th of December.

The star’s cancer was detected in the year 2007, after which she continuously and bravely fought with the disease, ultimately losing the battle on Dec. 17. Her co-star of Sesame Street, Marla Gibbs’ Mary Jenkins has said that Alaina Redd-Amini was “very good in the role’ and that the sometimes the whole episodes were even written centering her. She further stated that Alaina Reed-Amini was also an immensely talented singer and that they both had done “a nightclub act together at her club”. At last, Marla Gibbs’ Mary Jenkins grieved over her friend and co-star’s death by saying, “She was just a wonderful friend. She will be sorely missed; she fought the fight good’.

Today, Alaina Reed Amini is survived by Tamim Amini, her husband and a couple of kids she had with her former husband. Astonishingly, Alaina Reed Amini’s husband reported that they will not be holding any kind of memorial service or even a funeral in the memory of the late TV actress. However, in place of this her family will be soon planning to hold a ‘celebration of her life’, which is probably to take place next year.