Her death was confirmed by the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, but no cause was given.
Brynes best-known stage roles were in the originalBroadwayproductions ofStephen SondheimsSunday in the Park With GeorgeandInto the Woods.
She played mothers in both shows.
Her legacy will live on at the Guthrie and in our hearts forever.
She was also in the Kennedy Centers 2002 production ofA Little Night Music.
She also voiced the gnome Urgl on the 1995-96 HBO animated series,The Neverending Story.
For film, she was inMilos FormansAmadeusas Mozarts mother-in-law, and also in James IvorysThe Bostonians.
Survivors include her daughter, Susan.
Her husband of 65 years, Denny Spence, died in 2018.
