Mourning for US series star Andrea Evans (“Rich and Beautiful”)! The 66-year-old died Sunday at her home in Pasadena, California. She lost the battle with breast cancer, her rep Nick Leicht confirmed to USA Today.
“She was an enormous talent and a pleasure to work with,” Leicht said in a statement. Andrea Evans starred in America’s most successful series and was considered a TV icon. “Rich and Beautiful”, “Shadows of Passion”, “Love, Lies, Passion”, “Passions” – these soap operas have been among the most popular on American television for decades. Andrea Evans was in all of them – sometimes for several hundred episodes.
On Twitter, fans and colleagues remember the series star with video snippets and photos from their legendary roles.
Evans was born in Aurora, Illinois. As a young woman, she took part in a number of beauty pageants and acted on small stages. In the 1970s, famed soap casting director Mary Jo Slater caught the eye of her and cast her in Love, Lies, Passion – Evan’s big break. She played Tina Lord, the beast of the series.
In the early 1980s, Evans left the soap and joined The Shadows as Patty Williams. In 1985, she returned to her signature role of Tina Lord, for which she was Emmy-nominated. But then Evans surprisingly left the series.
She withdrew from public life for almost ten years. Only later did she explain why: a stalker followed her and wrote her bloody death threats. The man was arrested, Evans resumed acting, but the fear “changed me forever,” she said in a 2008 interview.
Most recently, Evans starred in the Amazon Prime series The Bay. She leaves behind her husband and a daughter.
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