Yvette Mimieux attends the National Wildlife Federation’s “Voices for Wildlife” Anniversary Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on June 15, 2011, in Beverly Hills.

Yvette Mimieux, an actress known for roles in iconic films such as 1960's The Time Machine and The Black Hole from 1979, has died. She turned 80 years old earlier this month.

Actress Yvette Mimieux attends the National Wildlife Federation’s “Voices for Wildlife” Anniversary Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on June 15, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California.

Yvette Mimieux, an actress who rose to fame in the early 1960s, died Monday night at age 80. ... 1990 at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, ...

Yvette Mimieux, the blond and blue-eyed 1960s film star of “Where the Boys Are,” “The Time Machine” and “Light in the Piazza,” has died at her home in Los Angeles.

Yvette Carmen Mimieux was born in Los Angeles; her father was French and her mother Mexican. Mimieux was married to film director Stanley Donen from 1972 until their divorce in 1985.

Yvette Mimieux, who starred as a delicate, vulnerable ingenue in early 1960s movies such as “The Time Machine,” “Where the Boys Are” and “Light in the Piazza,” and who later sought to ...

Yvette Mimieux was found dead Tuesday morning, a rep for her family confirmed. She had just turned 80 on January 8, and she passed away in her sleep of natural causes.