Meg Bennett, a veteran cleaning soap opera author and actress, has died. She was 75.
Bennett — who was greatest recognized for her writing on reveals, together with The Daring and the Lovely and Normal Hospital, in addition to for her performances on a number of soaps, corresponding to The Younger and the Stressed — died on April 11 after a battle with most cancers.
In response to an obituary penned by her household, Bennett spent her life up till her ultimate days “devotedly working with youngsters, writing, and fascinating together with her far-flung household and associates.”
Bennett — born Helen Bennett — grew up in Pasadena, California, and pursued her ardour for performing by majoring in drama at Northwestern College.
Bennett acquired her begin in present enterprise by way of modeling, and broke by way of when she was solid because the “Cadillac Eldorado Convertible Woman” in 1971, which introduced her out to New York Metropolis — the place she then started engaged on Broadway in productions of Godspell and Grease.
Her work on the stage earned her a job within the daytime cleaning soap opera Seek for Tomorrow, the place she performed Liza for 3 years. In 1980, she landed the position of Julie Newman on The Younger and the Stressed, which she performed for six years.
Throughout her time on the present, Bennett’s acumen with script notes and rewrite solutions impressed the present’s inventive crew and he or she was provided a job as a author.
Bennett transitioned into writing as her main profession focus, whereas nonetheless performing. She wrote for The Younger and the Stressed, earlier than shifting on to the cleaning soap sequence The Daring and the Lovely, Generations, Sundown Seashore, Santa Barbara and Normal Hospital.
Bennett additionally acted on a few of the reveals she wrote for, together with Santa Barbara — wherein she performed Megan Richardson — and Normal Hospital, the place she delivered a memorable efficiency as Allegra Montenegro.
Her writing work on Normal Hospital earned her a Daytime Emmy Award in 1995 for Excellent Drama Sequence Writing Group.
Bennett is survived by her husband of practically 20 years, fellow Normal Hospital author Robert Guza Jr. — with whom she co-created Sundown Seashore — in addition to two stepdaughters and 4 grandchildren.
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