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Eileen Fulton, Daytime Drama Icon, Dies at 91

Her portrayal of Lisa Miller for half a century reshaped the soap genre with one of its first compelling villainesses

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Overview

  • Fulton died July 14 in Asheville, North Carolina, after a period of declining health, her family announced
  • She embodied Lisa Miller on CBS’s As the World Turns from 1960 through its final episode in September 2010, appearing in nearly 1,800 episodes
  • Her scheming character helped establish daytime television’s first prominent “bad girl” and altered audience expectations for female roles
  • In 1965 she led the primetime spinoff Our Private World, which aired 38 episodes on CBS before returning her to As the World Turns
  • Industry peers honored her with induction into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1998 and a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004