Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on seminal TV comedy "MASH," died Friday at her home in New York City. She was 87.

Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a surgical unit behind the lines of the Korean War on the hit TV series MASH, has died. She was 87.

Loretta Swit, who played Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan on TV's 'M*A*S*H' from 1972 to 1983, died Friday in her New York apartment. She was 87.