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Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin back reading scripts after being hospitalized for ‘mini-stroke’

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FILE - In this May 6, 2014 file photo, Alan Arkin arrives at the world premiere of "Million Dollar Arm" in Los Angeles. A publicist says the 81-year-old actor Arkin had a mile stroke on Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, but is fine now. Melody Korenbrot with Block-Korenbrot Public Relations says he is fine, he is home, he is fine. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A publicist says 81-year-old Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin was hospitalized after a minor stroke but was fine and back reading scripts on Friday.

Arkin, who won supporting actor Academy Awards for 2006’s “Little Miss Sunshine” and 2009’s “Argo,” suffered the “mini-stroke” on Monday and was released from the hospital the next day, said publicist Melody Korenbrot.

She added Arkin was home reading a script for a possible new movie. In addition to his two Academy Awards, the actor was Oscar-nominated for “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” and “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” in the 1960s.

Arkin, who has acted in several dozen films in a nearly 60-year career, appears in this weekend’s new holiday dramedy “Love the Coopers.”

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