Nicolette Goulet (June 5, 1956 – April 17, 2008) was a Canadian-American film, television and musical theatre actress.

Biography

Goulet was born in

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, Canada, the only child of singer-actor Robert Goulet and his first wife, Louise Longmore. She had two half-brothers, Christopher and Michael, from her father's second marriage, to singer-actress

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. Goulet was educated in New York at Marymount College, where she starred in several plays. At age 18, she landed the role of Corey in a production of ''

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''. From there she went on to the television

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'' Ryan's Hope'', playing Mary Ryan Fenelli in 1979. She was the fourth actress to portray the character. She also appeared on three other such daytime serialized drama: ''

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'' as Kathy Parker Phillips Taper #2 from 1980 until 1982; ''

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'' as Casey Reynolds in 1984; and '' Guiding Light'' as Meredith Reade Bauer from 1987 to 1989. She starred in two motion pictures, ''Whispers of White'' and ''Calhoun County'', and in the

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play ''Sweet Song of the Trumpets''. Other theater roles included a

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, production of

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's ''

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'' in 1984, and the musicals ''

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'' (1982, The Little Theatre on the Square, Sullivan, Illinois) and ''

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'' (1982).

Personal life

On April 17, 2008, less than six months after her father's death, Goulet died in

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, as a result of breast cancer. At the time of her death, she was divorced from husband Tim Fowlar, whom she had married on August 30, 1992. She had three children: Jordan, Solange and Dee.

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