May 30 (UPI) -- Actor Loretta Swit died Friday, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter confirmed with her publicist, Harlan Boll. Swit was 87 and died in her New York City home shortly after midnight. A police report suspects natural causes but the final coroner's report is pending. Swit won 2 Emmys out of 10 nominations for her role on M*A*S*H . Swit played Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, the role played by Sally Kellerman in the Robert Altman movie on which the long-running series was based.