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'' (1988) and '' Liquid Dreams'' (1991). She was at one time engaged to one of her co-stars

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. Perhaps the role which garnered her the widest audience was psychotic Veronica Landers on American

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'' from 1997 to 1998. Work was scarce for Daly after she left ''The Young and the Restless'', and she was found dead in a rundown Los Angeles apartment on December 14, 2004. The cause of death was listed as polydrug intoxication complicated by severe

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; although her boyfriend stated that he believes that she was a victim of foul play.The Los Angeles Independent – Serving Hollywood and West Hollywood
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* 1966 births 2004 deaths American film actresses American soap opera actresses American television actresses Actresses from Los Angeles 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American women {{US-screen-actor-1960s-stub