Ellen Dolan (born October 16, 1955 in
Monticello, Iowa
Monticello is a city in Jones County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 4,040.
Geography
Monticello is located at (42.238759, -91.189067). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total ar ...
, USA) is an American actress.
Early life and career
Dolan earned her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees in theater from the University of Iowa in
Iowa City
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. While working toward her bachelor's degree, she spent a summer studying dramatic arts at the
Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art Webber may refer to:
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in London.
Dolan is best known for two daytime
soap opera
A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ...
roles. She originated the role of Maureen Reardon Bauer on ''
Guiding Light
''Guiding Light'' (known as ''The Guiding Light'' before 1975) is an American radio and television soap opera. It is listed in ''Guinness World Records'' as the third longest-running drama in television in American history. ''Guiding Light'' a ...
'', and played the role from 1982 to 1986. She replaced
Hillary Bailey Smith
Hillary Bailey Smith (born May 25, 1957) is an American actress, best known for her daytime soap opera roles as Margo Hughes on ''As the World Turns'' and Nora Hanen Buchanan on ''One Life to Live''.
Life and career
Smith was born as Hillary B ...
in late 1989 as
Margo Hughes on ''
As the World Turns''. Dolan played Margo until 1993, when she moved to California to pursue nighttime television work.
Dolan returned to ''
As the World Turns'' in 1994 and played Margo until the show ended in 2010.
In 1992, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress.
Her additional television credits include the made-for-television movies ''Mother's Day'', ''Mothers, Daughters and Lovers'' with
Helen Shaver
Helen Shaver (born February 24, 1951) is a Canadian actress and film and television director. She has received Emmy and Saturn Award nominations, among other honours.
Early life
Shaver was born and raised, with five sisters, in St. Thomas, O ...
and
Claude Akins
Claude Aubrey Akins (May 25, 1926 – January 27, 1994) was an American character actor with a long career on stage, screen, and television. He was best known as Sheriff Lobo on the 1979–1981 television series ''B.J. and the Bear'', and l ...
, and ''Dancing with Danger'', with
Cheryl Ladd
Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor; July 12, 1951) is an American actress, singer, and author best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the ABC television series ''Charlie's Angels'', whose cast she joined in its second season in 1977 to ...
and
Ed Marinaro.
Theatre
Her stage career began in 1980 at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater with roles such as Katrin in Mother Courage. Her subsequent roles in numerous regional productions have included Maggie in ''
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' is a three-act play written by Tennessee Williams. An adaptation of his 1952 short story "Three Players of a Summer Game", the play was written by him between 1953 and 1955. One of Williams's more famous works and his p ...
'' at the Virginia Stage Company, Mary in ''
How the Other Half Loves'' at the Pennsylvania Stage Company, and Clelia in The Nerd at the Capitol Repertory in Albany, NY. She also started a theater company in New York called The Studio Three Group. She joined a repertory group called the WorkShop Theater Company in 2004 and has had leading roles in several mainstage productions there.
Personal life
Dolan and businessman Doug Jeffrey had their first child, a daughter, Angela Emmett Jeffrey (born 2000).
After ATWT ended, Dolan and Jeffrey sold their New York City home, the sale of which was featured as a story on the reality TV program ''
Selling New York
''Selling New York'' is an American television series airing on HGTV. It featured real estate brokers from three Manhattan real estate companies (Gumley Haft Kleier, CORE, and Warburg) selling real estate to New York's elite. Season 1 was filmed b ...
''.
See also
*
Tom Hughes and Margo Montgomery
Thomas "Tom" Hughes and Margo Montgomery Hughes are fictional characters and a supercouple on the American CBS daytime drama ''As the World Turns''. The pairing has been called "one of the greatest examples of the action-adventure and fantasy ro ...
*
Supercouple
A supercouple or super couple (also known as a power couple) is a popular and/or wealthy pairing that intrigues and fascinates the public in an intense or obsessive fashion. The term originated in the United States, and it was coined in the earl ...
External links
*
SoapCentral page
References
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1955 births
American soap opera actresses
American television actresses
People from Monticello, Iowa
University of Iowa alumni
Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
Living people
21st-century American women