NAPLES, FLA. — Kim McGuire, who played the character known as "Hatchet-Face" in the John Waters film "Cry-Baby," has died. She was 60.
Her husband, Gene Piotrowsky, confirmed his wife's death Thursday to The Associated Press. Piotrowsky said she died Wednesday at a Naples, Florida, hospital of complications from pneumonia.
McGuire acted in several TV shows and films in the 1990s, but was best known playing opposite Johnny Depp in 1990's "Cry-Baby" as grotesque Mona 'Hatchet-Face' Malnorowski, a member of a teenage gang headed by Depp's character.
"We were looking for someone with an alarming face and a good body, that's all the [casting] notice said," Waters said Thursday. "The casting woman that worked with Pat [Moran] in L.A. saw her picture in a pile for extras and thought, 'Wow, this is a special look here.'
"She was great," recalled Waters, who said he had kept in occasional contact with McGuire over the years. "We made her much more alarming-looking than she really was. ... She was very sweet and very funny, and a real team player. She got along with everybody really well.
"She made that role hers."