Eileen Fulton, who starred as Lisa Miller on the CBS cleaning soap opera “Because the World Turns,” died Monday in Asheville, N.C., after a wrestle with declining well being. She was 91.

Fulton’s loss of life was introduced by way of an obituary shared by means of her funeral dwelling.

Fulton, who pioneered the dangerous lady persona in daytime soaps, joined “Because the World Turns” in 1960 and starred because the villainess Lisa Miller till the present’s finish in 2010. Her storied flip as Lisa, who was famously married eight instances all through the present, makes Fulton one of many longest-running cleaning soap opera actors in American tv. Fulton herself pushed for Lisa’s antagonism, which contributed to the present’s longevity and recognition, in addition to the character’s enduring enchantment.

For her “Because the World Turns” position, Fulton was inducted into the Cleaning soap Opera Corridor of Fame in 1998 and honored with a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.

As she was showing on “Because the World Turns,” which was a stay broadcast, she was concurrently performing in a Broadway manufacturing of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and an off-Broadway run of “The Fantasticks.”

Fulton additionally carried out a cabaret act for a number of years in golf equipment and venues throughout New York and Los Angeles. She co-authored her first autobiography, “How My World Turns,” in 1970. She wrote a follow-up, “As My World Nonetheless Turns,” in 1995, which coincided together with her thirty fifth anniversary on “Because the World Turns.” Within the late ’80s, she additionally revealed six homicide thriller novels.

Fulton retired from performing in 2019 and relocated to Black Mountain, N.C.. She is survived by her brother, Charles Furman McLarty, her niece, Katherine Morris and her sister in-law, Chris Web page McLarty.