Eileen Herlie: Eileen Herlie. Actress: All My Children. This vibrant Scottish character actress managed in her seven-decade career trek to not only brighten up the Broadway stage during the 1950s and 1960s in roles ranging from the man-searching milliner Irene Malloy to Hamlet's mother Queen Gertrude, but conquered the TV market too, delighting daytime audiences for not only standing toe-to-toe against Susan Lucci's Erica Kane character (and later becoming her surrogate mom),...
Known For: All My Children (Myrtle FargateMyrtle LumMyrtle Lum Fargate), Hamlet (Gertrude, The Queen), The Sea Gull (Polina, the Bailiff's Wife), Gilbert and Sullivan (Helen D'Oyly Carte)