{"id":6377,"date":"2025-07-22T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:27:52","slug":"legendary-soap-actress-passed-away-at-age-of-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6377","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Soap Actress Passed Away At Age Of 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"130\"><strong data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"130\">Eileen Fulton, Iconic Soap Star, Dies at 91<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"132\" data-end=\"289\">Eileen Fulton, best known for her 50-year role as Lisa Grimaldi on <em data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"219\">As the World Turns<\/em>, died July 14 in Asheville, N.C., after a period of declining health.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"576\">Born Margaret Elizabeth McLarty in 1933, she began performing at age 2 and later studied drama and music at Greensboro College. After college, she moved to New York in 1956, studied under Sanford Meisner and Lee Strasberg, and took on modeling before landing her breakout role in 1960.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"578\" data-end=\"797\">Originally meant to be a short-term character, Lisa became one of daytime TV\u2019s most infamous \u201cmean girls.\u201d Fulton embraced the drama, once joking, \u201cI\u2019ve had 32 lovers, four husbands, two children and one phantom fetus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"917\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Despite occasional public backlash, she reveled in the audience\u2019s strong reactions. \u201cI\u2019ve reached them,\u201d she told NPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Fulton, Iconic Soap Star, Dies at 91 Eileen Fulton, best known for her 50-year role as Lisa Grimaldi on As the World Turns, died July 14 in Asheville, N.C., after a period of declining health. Born Margaret Elizabeth McLarty in 1933, she began performing at age 2 and later studied drama and music at&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6377\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Legendary Soap Actress Passed Away At Age Of 91&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6379,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions\/6379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}