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Ellen Virginia Holly (January 16, 1931 – December 6, 2023) was an American actress. Beginning her career on stage in the late 1950s, Holly was perhaps best known for her role as Carla Gray–Hall on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (1968–1980; 1983–1985).
Ellen Holly was the first Black actress to star on a daytime television show. She starred as Carla Gray on 'One Life to Live' from 1968 to 1985. Trailblazing actress Ellen Holly of White Plains ...
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 ...
Ellen Holly, the first Black actor to have a leading role on a daytime soap opera, died peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. She was 92. Photo by Ashley E. Jones ...
Nixon based Carla and Sadie's original story on the film Imitation of Life, [4] in which a light-skinned Black woman denies her heritage and her darker-complected mother, and enters white society by passing. The revelation that Carla Benari was actually Black did not come until Ellen Holly had appeared in the role on-screen for five months. [1]
Carla Gray is a fictional character from the American soap opera One Life to Live, played by actress Ellen Holly.Carla appeared from October 1968 [1] through December 1980, and from May 1983 through December 1985.
Holly, who portrayed Carla on 'One Life to Live,' was the first Black actress to secure a starring role in a US soap opera.
Moon on a Rainbow Shawl is a 1957 play written by Trinidadian actor-playwright Errol John.Described as "ground-breaking" [1] and "a breakthrough in Britain for black writing," the play has been produced and revived worldwide since its premiere at London's Royal Court Theatre. [2]