Margaret McLarty
Oakdale Presence
Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi (1960 to 1983; 1984 to Present)
At a Glance
Eileen, who has played the colorful Lisa for almost 40 years, was born Margaret McLarty. She is the daughter of the late Rev. McLarty (a Methodist minister) and descends from a long line of clergymen.
Eileen majored in music and minored in dramatics at Greensboro College in North Carolina and made her professional debut in The Lost Colony, an annual presentation at Manteo, NC. In 1956, Eileen moved to New York and studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater.
Eileen appeared in Broadway's matinee viewing of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks simultaneously (while she was working on ATWT). In addition to her many theater credits, Eileen was also the lead in the film, Girl of the Night. Eileen brought the character of Lisa to primetime in 1965 in the primetime serial Our Private World.
Eileen is a talented cabaret singer and has sung in many top nightclubs around the country and starred in several one-woman shows. She is also a prolific writer and has co-authored two autobiographies, "How My World Turns" and "As My World Still Turns." She has also written six murder mysterious: "Take One for Murder", "Death of a Golden Girl", "Dying for Stardom", Lights! Camera! Death!", "A Setting for Murder", and "Fatal Flashback", as well as the romance novel "Soap Opera."
Eileen is an active supporter of many charities such as UNICEF, March of Dimes, Cerebal Palsy, Lupus Foundation, and Martha's Table, which benefits poor and homeless mothers and children. She has established a musical scholarship in her father's name at Brevarad College in North Carolina, and a Fine Arts Scholarship in her & her mother's names at their alma mater, Greensboro. Eileen is also a women's right's advocate.
Eileen currently resides in Manhattan.
Acting Portfolio
TELEVISION
Our Private World
Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge
1964 to 1965
As The World Turns
Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi
1960 to 1983; 1984 to Present
Acting Portfolio
THEATRE
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Fantasticks
Abe Lincoln in Illinois [Off Broadway]
Many Loves
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Nite Club Confidential.
Acting Portfolio
REGIONAL THEATRE
The Lost Colony
Plaza Suite
It Had to be You
The Owl and the Pussycat
Goodbye, Charlie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Awards and Acclaim
Daytime Emmys Winner, Lifetime Acheivement Award (2005)
Daytime TV Voted Best Actress in Daytime TV's reader poll in 1970 and remained in the top ten for 58 of the first 80 issues (1970-77)
Soap Opera Digest Awards Nomination, Outstanding Lead Actress (1996)
Soap Opera Digest Awards Editor's Award (1991)
Vital Statistics
BIRTHPLACE: Asheville, NC
BIRTHDATE: Sept. 13. 1933
HAIR: Blonde
