Overview

• Fulton died on July 14 in her hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, after a period of declining health, as announced by her family via an obituary at Groce Funeral Home.
• She portrayed Lisa Miller on CBS’s As the World Turns from 1960 until the soap’s finale in 2010, becoming one of the longest-running actors in American daytime television.
• Her scheming portrayal of Lisa anchored the daytime ‘vixen’ archetype and spanned eight marriages and innumerable storylines.
• Fulton was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1998 and received a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004 in recognition of her enduring impact.
• Beyond television, she headlined the 1965 primetime spinoff Our Private World, performed on Broadway and in cabaret, and authored multiple memoirs and novels.