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UPDATED: 12:41 p.m. ET., December 8th
While death is an inevitable part of life, that fact doesn’t make it any easier when it is reported that someone has died.
Ellen Holly, whose role on ABC’s hit soap opera One Life To Live made her the first Black actor to lead a daytime TV show, has died at the age of 92.
Holly’s rep confirmed to NBC News that she passed away on Wednesday (Dec. 6) at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, N.Y.
Holly was tapped to do the show after producer Agnes Nixon read her opinion piece in the New York Times. That piece, titled “How Black Do You Have To Be,” recounted Holly’s personal struggles in finding acting gigs as a light-skinned Black woman.
Holly stayed with the show from 1968 through 1980, then returned from 1983 to 1985. Other TV and film credits include The Guiding Light, In The Heat Of The Night, and Spike Lee’s School Daze.
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