Beverlee McKinsey is best known for her roles on daytime serials, including Iris Cory Carrington on Another World and the spin-off series Texas from 1972 to 1981 and Alexandra Spaulding on Guiding Light from 1984 to 1992.
17 Facts About Beverlee McKinsey
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Beverlee McKinsey was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Warren S Magruder of Tulsa.
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Beverlee McKinsey taught in schools in four states before she was married.
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In 1960 Beverlee McKinsey was host of Make-Believe Clubhouse, a Monday - Friday afternoon children's program on WGBH-TV in Boston and WENH-TV in Durham, New Hampshire.
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Beverlee McKinsey started her career in Off-Broadway theater, often appearing alongside James Earl Jones and Doris Belack.
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Beverlee McKinsey moved to Hollywood in the late 1960s, and after several appearances in episodic television shows, she appeared on daytime TV.
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Beverlee McKinsey played the role from December 1972 to July 1980.
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Beverlee McKinsey was made the star of the soap's spin-off series, Texas, which debuted August 4,1980.
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Beverlee McKinsey remains one of three actors on daytime television to be given a star billing on a soap opera, the others being Rosemary Prinz of All My Children and How to Survive a Marriage, and Dana Andrews of Bright Promise.
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Beverlee McKinsey received four Daytime Emmy nominations for her work as Iris.
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Beverlee McKinsey's ruthlessness was revealed when Alexandra married Roger Thorpe, then subsequently discovered he was involved in an affair with the younger Mindy Lewis.
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In 1992, Beverlee McKinsey took advantage of an out in her contract, and abruptly left GL.
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Beverlee McKinsey later quipped that perhaps it was Phelps and the rest of the Guiding Light production team who should have read the contract.
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Beverlee McKinsey was married three times, and had one son, Scott McKinsey from her marriage to Mark McKinsey.
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Beverlee McKinsey's son is a director on the soap opera General Hospital.
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Beverlee McKinsey had resisted all entreaties to return to daytime television.
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Beverlee McKinsey died on May 2,2008, at the Olympic Medical Center in Los Angeles, from complications due to a kidney transplant, which she had undergone in 1998.