British director and actor David Leland has died aged 82, according to his long-time agency, Cassaroto Ramsay & Associates
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Ellen Holly, the first Black person to star in a soap opera with her lead role on One Life to Live, died Wednesday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, N.Y. She was 92 and died in her sleep.
Her first roles on television included appearances on The Big Story (1957), The Defenders (1963), Sam Benedict (1963), Dr. Kildare (1964) and The Doctors and the Nurses (1963 and 1964).
Holly played the groundbreaking character Carla Gray on the hit ABC show One Life to Live from 1968 to 1980 and 1983 to 1985. She was personally chosen for the role by television producer Agnes Nixon after she saw a New York Times opinion piece that Holly wrote, called “How Black Do You Have To Be?” about the difficulty of finding roles as a light-skinned Black woman.
Holly was born on January 16, 1931, in Manhattan to parents William Garnet Holly, a chemical engineer, and Grayce Holly, a housewife and writer.
A graduate of Hunter College, she became a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. during her college years.
Holly began her acting career on New York City and Boston stages. She made her Broadway debut in Too Late the Phalarope in 1956, and she went on to star in the Broadway productions Face of a Hero, Tiger Tiger Burning Bright and A Hand is on the Gate.
From 1958 to 1973, she led productions of numerous Joseph Papp New York Shakespeare Festival productions. Throughout her years in the theater, she worked opposite such luminaries as Roscoe Lee Browne, James Earl Jones, Jack Lemmon, Barry Sullivan and Cicely Tyson. Holly also studied with dance pioneer Katherine Dunham and was passionate about the role of dance in revealing the richness of African-American culture.
On One Life to Live, her attempt to come to terms with her racial
British director and actor David Leland has died aged 82, according to his long-time agency, Cassaroto Ramsay & Associates
According to a family spokesperson, he died on Christmas Eve after a battle with cancer. Best known for the “Call of Duty” video game franchise and the long-running soap, “One Life To Live,” de los Reyes was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1967 and grew up in Las Vegas. His father is Cuban percussionist Walfredo de los Reyes.
Kamar de los Reyes has tragically passed away at the age of 56.
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“One Life to Live” actress Ellen Holly, who became the first Black person to star on a soap opera, has died. She was 92.Her publicist, Cheryl L.
J. Kim Murphy Ellen Holly, a stage and screen actor who became the first Black star of a daytime television series with her role as Carla Gray in ABC’s soap opera “One Life to Live,” died Wednesday at Cavalry Hospital in the Bronx, N.Y. She was 92.