Eileen Fulton | |
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 Fulton in 1965 | |
| Born | Margaret Elizabeth McLarty September 13, 1933 |
| Alma mater | Greensboro College |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 1960–present |
| Spouse |
Bill Cochrane
(m. 1957, divorced)Danny Fortunato
(m. 1970; div. 1980)Rick McMorrow
(m. 1989, divorced) |
Eileen Fulton (born Margaret Elizabeth McLarty; September 13, 1933)[1] is an American actress, singer, and author. She is known for her television role as Lisa Grimaldi on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, which she played almost continuously for 50 years, from May 18, 1960 until the show's ending on September 17, 2010. She also starred on Our Private World (1965), a primetime spin off of As the World Turns. For her work on ATWT, she received an Editor's Award at the Soap Opera Digest Awards in 1991 and a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Fulton has appeared in theatrical productions, including the original Broadway run of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She has performed a cabaret act at theaters in New York and Los Angeles. She has co-authored two autobiographies, How My World Turns and As My World Still Turns. She has also written a novel titled Soap Opera, and six murder mystery novels.