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Eileen Fulton, Iconic ‘As The World Turns’ Star, Dies At 91
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, JUL 20 – Eileen Fulton portrayed soap opera's first 'bad girl' for 50 years and earned a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004 for her groundbreaking role on CBS's As the World Turns.
- On July 14, 2025, Eileen Fulton died in Asheville, North Carolina, at age 91 after a period of declining health.
- Cast in 1960 as Lisa Miller on As the World Turns, Fulton became daytime TV's first 'bad girl', disrupting family dynamics, and played the role until September 2010.
- She was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1998 and received a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004, and fans once hired a bodyguard due to hostility.
- Her survivors include brother Charles Furman McLarty, niece Katherine Morris and their children, and sister-in-law Chris Page McLarty, and services are scheduled for August 9 with donations to two music scholarship funds in lieu of flowers.
- Balancing television, theater and writing, Fulton left a diverse artistic legacy, including performing on Broadway in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and off-Broadway in The Fantasticks, and authoring murder-mystery novels like Soap Opera.
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Eileen Fulton, whose portrayal of Lisa on As the World Turns spanned 50 years and eight soap opera marriages, has died. She was 91. The actress died July 14 in Asheville, North Carolina, according to an online post by a funeral home. Fulton was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall...
Eileen Fulton, ‘As the World Turns’ soap star, dies at 91
Actor Eileen Fulton, known for her long-running role as Lisa Grimaldi on the CBS soap opera “As the World Turns,” has died at 91. Fulton died July 14 in Asheville, N.C., after a period of declining health, according to an obituary posted by Groce Funeral Home in North Carolina. She would become one of the longest-serving soap opera actors, playing Lisa with only a few interruptions from 1960 until the show’s end in 2010. Fulton played the charac…
Beloved soap star who played iconic role for incredible 50 years dies aged 91
A BELOVED soap opera star who played an iconic character for 50 years has died, aged 91. Eileen Fulton, best known for her on and off portrayal of Lisa Miller in the popular show As the World Turns, died on July 14 in her hometown of Ashville, North Carolina. The Mega AgencyEileen Fulton has died, aged 91[/caption] AlamyThe iconic actress was best known for her work on As the World Turns[/caption] AlamyShe died in her hometown in North Carolina[…
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