About Eileen Fulton
Margaret Elizabeth McLarty, known professionally as Eileen Fulton, was an American actress, singer and author. She portrayed 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 appeared in theatrical productions including the original Broadway run of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She performed a cabaret act at theaters in New York and Los Angeles. She co-authored two autobiographies, How My World Turns and As My World Still Turns. She also wrote a novel titled Soap Opera, and six murder-mystery novels. In the 1960s, Fulton became the first soap actress to hire a publicist. When mother-in-law Nancy complimented Lisa on what a nice home she made for her son Bob, the audience became furious, stopping Fulton on the street and slapping her.
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