Gloria Stuart, the actress who played the older Rose Calvert in Titanic, passed away last weekend in Los Angeles. Stuart's family said the actress dies Sunday night at her home, five years after she was first diagnosed with lung cancer. She was 100 years old.

Stuart was the oldest actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, at the age of 87 for her turn as the elderly Rose Calvert in 1997's Titanic. She played the centenarian Titanic survivor who visits memories of the voyage after a charcoal portrait of hers was found by treasure hunters among the wreckage.

Most memorable is her scene where she drops the blue diamond necklace back to the ocean.Stuart said of the role as Rose Calvert: "I knew the role I had wanted and waited for all these many years had arrived! I could taste the role of Old Rose!"

In 2000, Gloria Stuart received her star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Before Titanic, Stuart had appeared in The Invisible Man, The Prisoner of Shark Island, Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1935 and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She appeared last onscreen in 2004's Land of Plenty.