1. Eileen Herlie was born Eileen Isobel Herlihy to an Irish Catholic father, Patrick Herlihy, and a Scottish Protestant mother, Isobel Cowden, in Glasgow, Scotland, and was one of five children.
12 Facts About Eileen Herlie
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Eileen Herlie was married twice, to Philip Barrett and Witold Kuncewicz, both marriages ending in divorce.
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Eileen Herlie subsequently toured with the semi-professional Rutherglen Repertory Company.
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Eileen Herlie played Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, for the second time.
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Eileen Herlie played Gertrude again, for the third and final time, in the 1964 Broadway production starring Richard Burton, and in the 1964 film version of the production.
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In 1955, Eileen Herlie made her Broadway debut as Irene Molloy in The Matchmaker.
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Eileen Herlie had previously played Queen Mary in the 1972 made-for-television film The Woman I Love, starring Richard Chamberlain as Edward VIII and Faye Dunaway as Wallis Simpson.
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On 18 May 1976, Eileen Herlie made the move to television soap operas in the role of Myrtle Fargate on All My Children, playing the role for virtually the rest of her life.
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Eileen Herlie became close friends with fellow cast member Louis Edmonds, and spoke at his funeral in 2001.
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Until the late 1990s, Eileen Herlie was one of the few actresses to portray the same character on three different soaps.
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Eileen Herlie last appeared in June 2008, a few months shy of her death.
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On 8 October 2008, at the age of 90, Eileen Herlie died of complications from pneumonia.