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28 April 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 06:53 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Alice Ward, the real-life boxer’s mother Melissa Leo won an Oscar for playing in Hollywood film The Fighter, has died in Boston.<\/p>\n

The 79-year-old was mother and manager to boxers Micky Ward and half-brother Dicky Eklund, played in the film by Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale.<\/p>\n

Leo, 50, won the Academy Award for best supporting actress at the Oscars in February for playing Alice on screen.<\/p>\n

Ward had a heart attack in January and was taken off life support on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Leo met Ward – depicted in the film as a domineering, foul-mouthed matriarch – a number of times while preparing for her role.<\/p>\n

The actress denied hers was a negative portrayal. “There’s no way in hell that when I played Alice Ward that I was playing a bad mother. Quite the opposite,” she told the Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n

During her acceptance speech at the Oscars, Leo thanked Ward and “your beautiful family that opened your hearts”.<\/p>\n

Ward’s grandson, Dick Eklund Jr, told the Lowell Sun<\/a> in Massachusetts that Ward was “the leader of our family”.<\/p>\n

“She was a great woman, a strong woman,” he said. “She taught us all what it means to be strong because she never gave up on any of us.”<\/p>\n

Alice Ward is survived by nine children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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