Famous Like Me > Actress > M > Beverlee McKinsey
Profile of Beverlee McKinsey
on Famous Like Me |
| |
| Name: |
Beverlee McKinsey |
|
| |
|
| Also Know As: |
|
| |
|
| Date of Birth: |
9th August 1940 |
| |
|
| Place of Birth: |
Oklahoma, USA |
| |
|
| Profession: |
Actress |
| |
|
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Beverlee McKinsey (born August 9, 1940 in McAlester, Oklahoma) is an American actress.
McKinsey was a 1962 graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma. She started her soap opera career playing Julie Richards on Love is a Many Splendored Thing in 1970.
She is most noted for her roles as Iris Cory on Another World (1972-1980) and its spinoff Texas, (1980-1981) as well as Alexandra Spaulding on Guiding Light (1984-1992). 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.
She was the first star on daytime television to be given star billing in a soap opera (Texas) -- the first star to get special billing was Rosemary Prinz, who was billed as a "special guest star" during the first year of All My Children. Her name appeared in the opening credits of the show, which was a spinoff of Another World and featured her character Iris.
Her son Scott is a director on the soap opera General Hospital, on which she briefly appeared in the mid-1990s. She has so far resisted all entreaties to return to daytime television.
External link
- The IMDb entry on McKinsey
This content from
Wikipedia is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article Beverlee McKinsey
|
