{"id":617794,"date":"2024-04-22T00:10:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T21:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meg-bennett-soap-opera-actress-and-writer-dies-at-75\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T00:10:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T21:10:39","slug":"meg-bennett-soap-opera-actress-and-writer-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meg-bennett-soap-opera-actress-and-writer-dies-at-75\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meg Bennett, Soap Opera Actress and Writer, Dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Meg Bennett, the Daytime Emmy winner who did double duty as an actress and writer on the daytime soap operas The Young and the Restless<\/em>, General<\/a> Hospital<\/em> and Santa Barbara<\/em>, has died. She was 75.<\/p>\n

\n Bennett died April 11 after a battle with cancer, her family announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n Bennett portrayed Marty Maraschino for more than two years during the original Broadway run of Grease<\/em> that kicked off in 1972, then began her long run in daytime two years later with a turn as Liza Walton on CBS\u2019 Search for Tomorrow<\/em>, where Kevin Kline and Morgan Fairchild were castmates.<\/p>\n

\n She joined CBS\u2019 The Young and the Restless<\/em> in 1980 as Julia Newman \u2014 wife of Eric Braeden\u2019s Victor Newman \u2014 but as her character was being written off, she was asked by Y&R<\/em> creator Bill Bell to stick around as a writer.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019d been acting on the show for almost two years when this happ<\/a>ened, so I knew the characters,\u201d Bennett said<\/a> in a 1985 interview. Still, she continued to show up as Julia on and off throughout the years, the last time in 2020.<\/p>\n

\n Bennett wrote for NBC\u2019s Santa Barbara<\/em> from 1991-93 (and played author Megan Richardson) and wrote for ABC\u2019s General Hospital<\/em> from 1993-2011 (and portrayed the villainess Allegra Montenegro).<\/p>\n

\n She shared her Daytime Emmy for her work on G.H.<\/em> in 1995 and was nominated for writing Y&R<\/em> in 1986, G.H.<\/em> again in 2000 and 2012 and The Bold and the Beautiful<\/em> in 2003. She also wrote for NBC\u2019s Generations<\/em> from 1989-91 and NBC\u2019s Sunset Beach<\/em> from 1997-98 and won a pair of WGA awards during her career.<\/p>\n

\n Helen Margaret Bennett was born on Oct. 4, 1948, and raised in Pasadena. Her mother, Margaret, was a psychologist at Pasadena City College.<\/p>\n

\n Bennett attended John Muir High School in Pasadena, and while majoring in drama at Northwestern University \u2014 where Shelley Long was a classmate \u2014 she was a homecoming queen, a Miss America contestant, a model in Life<\/em> magazine and a performer in summer stock.<\/p>\n

\n She moved to New York after graduation in 1970 to pursue acting, landed a modeling job for Cadillac and appeared off-Broadway in Godspell<\/em> before joining Grease<\/em>. She also won cash, a car, three rooms of furniture, a sailboat and a trip<\/a> to Jamaica on the NBC game<\/a> show Three on a Match<\/em>, hosted by Bill Cullen.<\/p>\n

\n In her 1985 interview, she wondered if concentrating on either acting or writing would have been enough for her. \u201cI\u2019ll admit, acting makes me a little crazy sometimes: You wait to audition. You wait for the part,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re writing, you\u2019re in control. I can initiate things on my own when I\u2019m writing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Survivors include her husband of 19 years, Sunset Beach<\/em> co-creator and nine-time Daytime Emmy winner Robert Guza Jr. \u2014 they met on G.H.<\/em> and were frequent writing partners on soaps \u2014 two stepdaughters, four grandchildren, a brother and a sister.<\/p>\n

\n She and Guza purchased a home in Beverly Hills in 2003 that had been owned by Boris Karloff and then Gregory Peck.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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