R.I.P. Cindy Morgan, from Caddyshack and Tron

Cindy Morgan has died. An actor best known for roles in iconic ’80s staples Caddyshack and Tron, Morgan’s career charted a surprisingly wide breadth of 1980s cultural touchstones, making her a convention circuit fixture for the rest of her life. Beyond those two films, the Chicago-born Morgan appeared in a number of other TV shows and movies, too, across a career that stretched all the way up to 2022. Per TMZ, which reported her death on Saturday afternoon, Morgan was 69. No cause of death has been reported.

Morgan had a long and winding road to appearing in hit films, having started out in radio—and worked a brief stint in an automotive factory—before breaking in to acting and commercials. She was cast in her very first film, Harold Ramis’ Caddyshack, in 1980, appearing as young bombshell Lacey Underwood, sharing key scenes with stars Chevy Chase and Michael O’Keefe. (Including a memorable sequence in which Lacey attempts to throw Chase’s typically placid Ty off his game with mentions of “skinny-skiing” and “watching bullfights on LSD.”)

In 1981, Morgan joined the cast of Tron in dual roles, playing Dr. Lora Baines in the real world, and program Yori within its digital reality. Covered for most of her screen-time in a bulky helmet and glowing lines, Morgan shared scenes (and, in rapid succession, on-screen kisses) with co-stars Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner. Morgan didn’t reprise the role for 2010's Tron: Legacy—despite a fan campaign insisting “Yori Lives”—although she did appear with Boxleitner in promotional materials for the film.

Beyond Caddyshack and Tron, Morgan appeared with some regularity, mostly on TV, throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most notably with a multi-episode run on prime time soap opera Falcon Crest. In interviews, meanwhile, she appeared eternally game to talk with, and about, the fans she’d picked up in both the comedy and sci-fi worlds (joking at one point that she was careful to keep her Tron and Caddyshack photos at opposite ends of her convention tables), and remained enthusiastic about those projects that had briefly made her a household face to millions of people.