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Ellen Virginia Holly (January 16, 1931 – December 6, 2023) was an American actress. Beginning her career on stage in the late 1950s, Holly was perhaps best known for her role as Carla Gray–Hall on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (1968–1980; 1983–1985). Holly is noted as the first African American to appear on daytime television in a ...
Dec 7, 2023 · Ellen Holly in a 1973 episode of the soap opera “One Life to Live” in which her character, Carla Gray, married Ed Hall, played by Al Freeman Jr. At left is a very young Laurence Fishburne.
Dec 8, 2023 · Ellen Holly and Al Freeman Jr. in 1979 in "One Life to Live." ABC via Getty Images. Born on Jan. 16, 1931, in Manhattan, Holly's family was a prominent force in the local Black community, with ...
Dec 8, 2023 · Ellen Holly was a stage and screen actor who played Carla Gray, the first Black lead of a daytime soap opera, from 1968 to 1985. She also appeared on Broadway, "The Guiding Light", "In the Heat of the Night" and "School Daze".
Dec 7, 2023 · Ellen Virginia Holly was born in Queens on Jan. 16, 1931. Her father, William, played the violin and worked as a chemical engineer, and her mother, Grace, taught school to orphans.
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Dec 7, 2023 · Ellen Holly played Carla Gray on One Life to Live from 1968 to 1985 and 1983 to 1985. She was also a Broadway actress, a New York Shakespeare Festival star and a civil rights activist.
Dec 8, 2023 · Ellen Holly, the first Black actor to have a leading role on a daytime soap opera, died peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. She was 92. Photo by Ashley E. Jones ...
