Bio
Eileen Fulton is an American actress best known for her role as Lisa on the television soap opera As the World Turns, from 1960-2010.
The character of Lisa had a storied history, having been married eight times, divorced three times and widowed four times (with her most recent marriage annulled), making her full name Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi Chedwyn.
Fulton was named Best Actress in 1970 by Daytime TV magazine's reader's poll, and she remained in the top ten of this category for 58 of the first 80 issues, which were printed between 1970 and 1977.
In 1991, her work was recognized with Soap Opera Digest's Editor's Award, and in 1996, she received a nomination for a Soap Opera Digest award.
In 1998, Soap Opera Weekly inducted her into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame. In 2004, Fulton was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
At one point, Fulton worked mornings on As the World Turns, afternoons in matinee presentations of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on Broadway, and evenings in the Off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks.
Her additional theatre credits include Off-Broadway productions of Abe Lincoln in Illinois with Hal Holbrook, Many Loves, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, and Nite Club Confidential.
She has also appeared in regional theatre productions such as Plaza Suite, It Had To Be You by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna, The Owl and the Pussycat, Goodbye, Charlie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Fulton also appeared as the lead in the film Girl of the Night.
As a cabaret performer and song-stylist, Fulton has played singing engagements in many top nightclubs around the country and starred in several one-woman New York shows.
She is also a prolific writer who has co-authored two autobiographies, How My World Turns and As My World Still Turns, written six murder mysteries, Take One for Murder, Death of a Golden Girl, Dying for Stardom, Lights! Camera! Death!, A Setting for Murder and Fatal Flashback, and a romance novel, Soap Opera.
Fulton majored in music and minored in dramatics at Greensboro College in North Carolina and made her professional debut in The Lost Colony, an annual drama presentation at Manteo, North Carolina. In 1956, she moved to New York City and studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
She has been an active supporter of such charities as UNICEF, the March of Dimes, Cerebral Palsy, the Lupus Foundation and Martha's Table, an organization in Washington DC that benefits poor and homeless mothers and children.
She has established a musical scholarship in her late father's name at Brevard College in North Carolina and a fine arts scholarship in hers and her mother's names at their alma mater, Greensboro College.
An avowed women's rights advocate, Fulton has also given her time and energies to numerous causes devoted to the betterment of women everywhere.
Fulton is the daughter of a Methodist minister and a descendant of a long line of clergymen. Born in Asheville, NC, she resides in Manhattan.