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.

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 ...

By Alex Williams and John Yoon Ellen Holly, the first Black actor to play ... enmeshed in a love triangle involving a Black man, died on Wednesday at a hospital in the Bronx.

And that’s how it worked out,” she said in another 2012 interview. Ellen Virginia Holly was born in Queens on Jan. 16, 1931. Her father, William, played the violin and worked as a chemical ...

(Gray News/TMX) – Ellen Holly, the first Black actor to land a lead role on a soap opera and lifelong advocate for Black representation in television, has died at the age of 92. She died in her ...

Ellen Holly, whose long-running turn as Carla on ABC’s One Life to Live made her the first Black actress to gain stardom on a daytime soap opera, has died. She was 92.

Ellen Holly, the groundbreaking actress, who became the first Black actress to star in a soap opera, when she played Carla Gray on ABC’s “One Life to Live,” has died at 92. “Remembering my ...

Ellen Holly, the first Black actress to have a lead role in a U.S. soap opera, has died. She was 92. Holly died on Wednesday, Dec. 6, at a Bronx hospital, per a statement shared by her publicist ...

Ellen Holly, whose long-running turn as Carla on ABC’s One Life to Live made her the first Black actress to gain stardom on a daytime soap opera, has died. She was 92. Holly died in her sleep ...

Ellen Virginia Holly – the “One Life to Live” actress who was the first African-American to star on a soap opera – has died at the age of 92, according to media reports. Holly died in her ...