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Meg Bennett, a Daytime Emmy Award winner who played the dual roles of actress and writer on daytime soap operas. the young and the restless, general Hospital and santa barbara,died. She was 75 years old.
Bennett passed away on April 11th after a battle with cancer, his family announced.
Bennett played Marty Maraschino for over two years during the original Broadway run. grease The show began in 1972, and two years later she began a long daytime run as Lisa Walton on CBS. looking for tomorrowKevin Kline and Morgan Fairchild were castmates.
She joined CBS the young and the restless In 1980, she was cast as Julia Newman, wife of Victor Newman, directed by Eric Braeden, but as her role was being dropped, she was asked: Y&R Creator Bill Bell remains as writer.
Bennett said in a 1985 interview, “I had been on the show for almost two years when this incident happened, so I knew the characters.” Still, she continued to appear as Julia intermittently over the years, making her last appearance in 2020.
Bennett wrote for NBC santa barbara She wrote for ABC from 1991 to 1993 (played writer Megan Richardson). general Hospital From 1993 to 2011 (played the villain Allegra Montenegro).
She shared a Daytime Emmy Award for her work G.H. Nominated for writing in 1995 Y&R In 1986, G.H. Also in 2000 and 2012 bold and beautiful She also wrote for the NBC show. generation 1989-1991 and NBC sunset beach She was active from 1997 to 1998 and won two WGA Awards during her career.
Helen Margaret Bennett was born on October 4, 1948 and raised in Pasadena. Her mother, Margaret, was a psychologist at Pasadena City College.
Bennett attended John Muir High School in Pasadena and was a homecoming queen, Miss America contestant, and theatrical model while majoring in theater at Northwestern University, where Shelley Long was her classmate. life Magazine and summer stock performers.
After graduating in 1970, she moved to New York to pursue acting, took a job modeling for Cadillac, and appeared off-Broadway. god spell before joining grease. She also won cash, a car, three furnished rooms, a yacht, and a trip to Jamaica on her NBC game show. in 3 gameshosted by Bill Cullen.
In a 1985 interview, she wondered if focusing on either acting or writing would have been enough. “Honestly, I get a little crazy sometimes when I’m acting. You wait for the audition. You wait for the role,” she said. “When you’re writing, you’re in control. When you’re writing, you’re initiating something.”
Survivors include her husband of 19 years; sunset beach co-creator and nine-time Daytime Emmy Award winner Robert Guza Jr. — they G.H. Two stepdaughters, four grandchildren, and a brother and sister were Thorpe’s frequent writing partners.
She and Guza purchased a Beverly Hills home in 2003 that had been owned by Boris Karloff and then Gregory Peck.
