Paula Shaw, the veteran character actress who portrayed Jason’s mother in the horror crossover film Freddy vs. Jason and appeared in a string of Hallmark Channel holiday movies, has died. She was 84.

Shaw, who led a workshop called “The Max” at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, for nearly 30 years, died Wednesday in her sleep in Vancouver after a lengthy illness.

Shaw also played Wulla Jean, the original owner of the Chicken Ranch, in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton and directed by Peter Masterson , and she was a coroner in Christopher Nolan’s Insomnia (2002), starring Al Pacino.

Paula Shaw, the veteran character actress who portrayed Jason’s mother in the horror crossover film Freddy vs. Jason and appeared in a

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