Marcia Strassman

LOS ANGELES — Marcia Strassman, who played Gabe Kaplan’s wife, Julie, on the 1970s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter,” has died. She was 66.

Strassman died at her Sherman Oaks, Calif., home Friday after battling breast cancer for seven years, her sister said Sunday.

Strassman had numerous roles on television and in film during her five-decade career.

She played nurse Margie Cutler on the first season of “MASH” before her breakout role in “Welcome Back, Kotter.” The show was about a teacher returning to the tough high-school of his youth to teach a classroom full of misfits, including future movie star John Travolta.