While the world turns star Eileen Fulton died at 91, suggest reports.

According to DeadlineFulton (the real name Margaret Elizabeth Mclarty) died in his hometown of Asheville, in North Carolina, due to an uncompromising disease. A necrology said that the actress had known “a period of declining health”, but did not offer any other details.

Fulton, who married three times throughout his life, initially joined While the world turns In 1960 as Lisa Grimaldi, in what was originally supposed to be a short -term role for actress Smith. When Smith was not available, Fulton was thrown instead and ended up staying on CBS day soap for more than 1,800 episodes over 50 years.

“I knew I was going to get this part,” said Fulton Television academy Years later. “There were two or three other girls there [at the audition]But I just knew. Even when I entered the room with all these girls .. I just knew [I’d get the part]. “”

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In the mid -1960s, Fulton was an actress so requested that she played in the original Broadway production of Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? And the musical outside Broadway The fantastic at the same time as she was running While the world turns. The actress shot the live episode of the day of Skinnythen rush to your Broadway theater for a performance in the morning of Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? and be back on stage The fantastic Every night. (She had previously studied with pioneering theater teachers Sanford Meisner And Lee Strasberg.)

Fulton joked at Los Angeles Times in 2000 that his attractive While the world turns The character must have had “thousands of lovers” – as well as eight husbands – throughout his mandate on soap.

“”[Lisa] Really couldn’t control itself, ”she joked.

At that time, Fulton admitted that there was real for longtime gossip that she could be a diva on the screen and away.

“I want things to be done well, but I learned that there is a great way to ask,” she teased. “I was horrible when I did the series for the first time, and above all it was insecurity and being afraid to death. Our show was live – and it was so difficult. I remember not knowing how to ask someone to be silent … just saying:” Shut up! “They called me” Garbage-Bouche “.”

Fulton finally established his place in the history of television, having been inducted at the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1998 and won a prize for the realization of life of life in 2004.

“I hate to look unusual, but I felt it was time [I won an Emmy]”She said later The television academy. “I wanted to [that Emmy] Ten years ago, I really did it. I am very happy to have it. I am delighted and I am very proud of [it]. … I have [the Emmy] Standing here in my entrance. I could have said: “Oh, I’m just going to put the closet.” Hell no! I will say it here where everyone can see and covet it.

Fulton remained as a member of the distribution on While the world turns Until its cancellation in 2010. Aside from his day work, Fulton played a minor role in the 1960 drama Daughter and also appeared in the short -term benefits of prospective hours of While the world turns,, Our private world.

Following While the world turns“Cancellation, Fulton withdrew to Black Mountain, in North Carolina in 2019. The legend of soap is survived by her brother, Charles Furman MCLARTYand sister-in-law, Chris Page MCLARTYas well as the niece Katherine Morris and their children.