Hollywood is mourning the loss of a legendary actress.
Eileen Fulton, who starred on As the World Turns for nearly five decades, died July 14, according to an obituary shared by her funeral home, in Asheville, North Carolina, following a period of declining health. She was 91.
After graduating from Greensboro College with a music degree back in 1956, it was only four years before Fulton—born Margaret Elizabeth McLarty—joined the CBS soap opera to star as villainess Lisa Miller until the show ended in 2010.
And while not everyone was a fan of her character, there were many ways in which Fulton, who studied under famed acting coaches such as Sanford Meisner and Lee Strasberg throughout her career, differed from Lisa’s antagonism.
“Her dreams, her ideals were certainly totally different from Eileen Fulton,” she told NPR in 2010. “She depended on men to do this, that, and the other thing—and to make her rich. Believe me, that’s not how I am. I create. I believe in setting goals, and going after it, and getting it. But as the years have gone on, there’s more of a melding.”
