Beverlee McKinsey

Information about Beverlee McKinsey

Beverlee McKinsey
BornJuly 9 1940 (1940--) (age 67)
McAlester, Oklahoma, U.S.


Beverlee McKinsey (born August 9, 1940 in McAlester, Oklahoma) is an American actress.

Career

McKinsey started her career in off Broadway theater, often appearing alongside fellow daytime alumni James Earl Jones and Doris Belack.

After several appearances in episodic television shows in the late 1960s, she landed her first contract role as Julie Richards on Love is a Many Splendored Thing in 1970.

She made a brief appearance as Emma Frame on Another World in May 1972. Her appearance so impressed the then-head writer of Another World, Harding Lemay, that he subsequently cast her in a drastically different role from dowdy Emma - that of manipulative, scheming Iris Cory. McKinsey played that role from December 1972 to July 1980, and also played Iris on Another World spinoff Texas from August 1980 to November 1981. During much of her tenure on Another World, McKinsey's portrayal of Iris was part of an unconventional triangle - the character was trying to break up her father and his new wife. When she appeared on Texas, she was given starring billing in the show's opening credits.

After leaving the cast of Texas in late 1981, McKinsey was wooed back to daytime by former Texas producer Gail Kobe to Guiding Light, which Kobe was now producing. McKinsey played powerful Alexandra Spaulding on Guiding Light from 1984 until 1992.

McKinsey's exit from Guiding Light proved to be quite dramatic in its own right: leaving on a planned six-week vacation, McKinsey informed Procter & Gamble that she did not intend to return to the show. She had had an "out clause" meaning she could quit the show by giving six weeks' notice, a clause that even executive producer Jill Farren Phelps was unaware of.

Soap Opera Digest calls McKinsey one of the finest actresses ever to work on soap operas.

In 2006, Procter & Gamble began making several of its soaps available through America Online's AOL Video service, downloadable free of charge. Reruns of Texas episodes featuring McKinsey began with the show's first episode in August 1980.

Personal life

Her son, Scott McKinsey, is a director on the soap opera General Hospital (on which she briefly appeared in 1994).

She has so far resisted all entreaties to return to daytime television. After some health issues, including a kidney transplant, McKinsey has retired to Southern California and makes few public appearances. Soap columnist Michael Logan has famously described McKinsey as "[making] Greta Garbo look like a chatterbox!"

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August 9 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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McAlester, Oklahoma

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Location of McAlester, Oklahoma
Coordinates:
Country United States
State Oklahoma
County Pittsburg
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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actor, actress, or player (see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity.
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Off Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions.

Off Broadway theatres (venues) are those with 100 to 499 seats[1].
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James Earl Jones

Birth name Todd Jones
Born January 17 1931 (1931--) (age 76)
Arkabutla, Mississippi, United States

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Doris Belack

Born January 26 1926 (1926--) (age 81)
New York City

Years active 1963 - present
Spouse(s) Philip Rose


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Love is a Many Splendored Thing was a soap opera which aired on CBS from September 18, 1967 to March 23, 1973.

Beginnings and controversy

The show was a spin off from the original 1955 20th Century Fox movie.
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Another World was an NBC soap opera that ran from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It was created by legendary serial creator Irna Phillips and her young assistant William J. Bell, and produced by Procter & Gamble Productions in its Brooklyn studios.
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Another World was an NBC soap opera that ran from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It was created by legendary serial creator Irna Phillips and her young assistant William J. Bell, and produced by Procter & Gamble Productions in its Brooklyn studios.
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Harding Lemay (born March 16, 1922 in North Bangor, New York) is a well-known teleplay writer and playwright. Born on a Mohawk Indian reservation, he ran away to New York City at age 17, where he was a playwright's apprentice.
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Texas (sometimes called Another World in Texas and, later, Texas: The New Generation) was a soap opera which aired on NBC from August 4, 1980 until December 31, 1982.
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Texas (sometimes called Another World in Texas and, later, Texas: The New Generation) was a soap opera which aired on NBC from August 4, 1980 until December 31, 1982.
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Texas (sometimes called Another World in Texas and, later, Texas: The New Generation) was a soap opera which aired on NBC from August 4, 1980 until December 31, 1982.
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Texas (sometimes called Another World in Texas and, later, Texas: The New Generation) was a soap opera which aired on NBC from August 4, 1980 until December 31, 1982.
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Gail Kobe (born March 19, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress and producer.

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Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light prior to 1975, GL) is an American television program credited by the Guinness Book of World Records
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Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light prior to 1975, GL) is an American television program credited by the Guinness Book of World Records
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Procter & Gamble Co.

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Founded 1837
Headquarters One Procter & Gamble Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 45202

Industry Consumer goods
Products Consumer goods
Revenue US$76.476[1] billion (2007)
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Jill Farren Phelps (born July 7, 1952 in New York CIty, NY) and has been the executive producer of many American television soap operas: Santa Barbara (1987-1991), Guiding Light (1991-1995), Another World (1995-1996), One Life to Live
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Soap Opera Digest is a magazine chronicling the stories airing on American soap operas and the off-screen lives of the actors appearing on them. The magazine first debuted in November 1975, with John Aniston, Ron Tomme, Audrey Peters, Birgitta Tolksdorf, Jerry Lacy and Tudi
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Texas (sometimes called Another World in Texas and, later, Texas: The New Generation) was a soap opera which aired on NBC from August 4, 1980 until December 31, 1982.
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General Hospital

General Hospital Intertitle
Alternate titles GH
Creator(s) Frank and Doris Hursley
Country of origin  United States
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Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region,
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Michael Logan is a columnist for the weekly magazine TV Guide, with a specialty in analyzing soap operas. He has written the "Michael Logan On Soaps" column for the magazine since 1989.
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