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Toronto Sun
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Sun
Legendary soap opera star Denise Alexander dead at 85
"General Hospital" star Denise Alexander has died at the age of 85. Photo by ABC Veteran soap opera actress Denise Alexander has died at the age of 85. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. 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Create Account Alexander died March 5 of natural causes at the home of a nephew in Colorado, her stepson, Anthony Colla, told The Hollywood Reporter . The Daytime Emmy nominee played Susan Hunter Martin on NBC's Days of Our Lives from 1966 to 1973 before getting an offer to portray Lesley Webber on ABC's General Hospital. It was a role that lasted nearly 50 years, with her last onscreen appearance coming in 2021. When she joined the show as Webber, Alexander became part of a love triangle along with with Chris Robinson's Rick Webber and Leslie Charleson's Monica Quartermaine. ' General Hospital went to number one for the first time during the Rick and Lesley and Monica triangle storyline,' she told We Love Soaps , according to PEOPLE . Alexander departed General Hospital following a contract dispute in 1984 and joined rival soap Another World. I n 1996 her character was brought back from the dead. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'I was sad when I left the show,' she told We Love Soaps . 'When you have played a character that long and had fun with it, you can feel the fan's sorrow. I missed the character, and it's a fun thing for me that she came back to life. It's a character I know, and there's still a few people I know there.' General Hospital executive producer Frank Valentini hailed Alexander in a social media statement. 'I am so very sorry to hear of Denise Alexander's passing,' Valentini wrote. 'She broke barriers on screen and off portraying Dr. Lesley Webber — one of the first female doctors on daytime television — for nearly five decades. It meant so much to have her reprise her role in recent years, and I am honored to have had the opportunity to work with her. On behalf of the entire General Hospital family, I extend my heartfelt sympathies to her family, friends, and longtime fans. May she rest in peace.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'I am so very sorry to hear of Denise Alexander's passing. She broke barriers on-screen and off, portraying Dr. Lesley Webber - one of the first female doctors on Daytime Television - for nearly five decades. It meant so much to have her reprise her role in recent years and I am… — General Hospital (@GeneralHospital) May 10, 2025 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Days of Our Lives star Susan Seaforth Hayes also took to social media to pay tribute to Alexander. 'Denise Alexander was a friend to treasure and an actress to applaud. She was well established on Days when I joined the cast as Julie #4 (a replacement for 4 previous actresses). She watched Billy and I fall madly in love and, being a romantic lady herself, cheered us on,' she wrote, sharing a photo of herself posing alongside her husband Billy Hayes and Alexander. 'Such happy memories of her years in Salem and her great success on General Hospital. We both began as child actors, both had strong mothers and both were raised as Christian Scientists in our early years. I was grateful for her wisdom, taste, humor, and goodness every time I saw her. It was never enough. And my love for her will never be over.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Soap fans shared their condolences on Valentini's post, with many hailing her for being a trailblazer in the genre. 'I am so sad to hear this, she was a wonderful actress and a huge part of the show's history. The last time she was on, you could see her health had declined but that did not stop her delivering an A+ performance,' one fan wrote. 'GH has lost a lot of its former stars in the last year. Although as a fan I did not personally know them, it felt as if I lost some one I was close to. RIP lovely lady.' Alexander got her acting start as a child, appearing first on radio before moving to television. 'There was television, there was radio, I did theatre, I did everything there was to do, and it seemed natural,' she told We Love Soaps, PEOPLE reported . 'Now when I look back, I think, 'How lucky was I?' — because a lot of people didn't have those experiences.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In that same 2010 interview, Alexander opened up on what her life was like as one of the biggest daytime stars. 'The audience would surround your car and scream when you would try to drive away from some appearance,' she said, according to The Hollywood Reporter . 'Financially, it was great. And I didn't have to go out on audition and be told I was too young, too old, too short, too fat, too boring, nothing. It was a great place to be and a great job and a great gift for an actor. And everybody got famous and that was fun.' mdaniell@ Read More Toronto Maple Leafs Editorial Cartoons World Ontario Sunshine Girls
Daily Mail
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
General Hospital star Denise Alexander dead at 85: Soap legend also acted on Days Of Our Lives
General Hospital star Denise Alexander, who won the hearts of soap opera fans as Dr. Lesley Webber, has died at the age of 85. She starred on General Hospital full-time from 1973 to 1984, then recurred from 1996 to 2009 and made sporadic guest appearances as recently as 2021. Early in her career, when she was still attending college on UCLA, she got her big break on TV with another legendary soap - Days Of Our Lives. Between stints on General Hospital, she also enjoyed a three-year run on Another World as the character Denise McKinnon from 1986 to 1989. Although news only broke of her death this Friday, the New York City-born actress actually died on March 5 and no cause has surfaced publicly, via Variety. General Hospital showrunner Frank Valenti made her death public this week, posting a glowing testimonial hailing the 'barriers' that she 'broke.' 'I am so very sorry to hear of Denise Alexander's passing. She broke barriers on-screen and off, portraying Dr. Lesley Webber - one of the first female doctors on Daytime Television - for nearly five decades,' he wrote. 'It meant so much to have her reprise her role in recent years and I am honored to have had the opportunity to work with her,' he added. 'On behalf of the entire General Hospital family, I extend my heartfelt sympathies to her family, friends, and longtime fans. May she rest in peace.' Born in New York in 1939, Denise Alexander grew up on Long Island with an agent for a father and began acting when she was just a child. By 1949 she was playing Perry Como's daughter on Perry Como's Chesterfield Supper Club and by the age of 13 she was performing on Broadway in a revival of the seminal 1930s Lillian Hellman play The Children's Hour. In 1956, as a teenager, she made her movie debut in the drama Crime In The Streets amid a cast that included John Cassavetes and Sal Mineo. Throughout her juvenile acting career, she appeared frequently on the radio, to the tune of what her father estimated as a total of 2,500 jobs. 'You would get out of school and go from one show to the next,' she explained to We Love Soaps TV, according to TV Insider. 'They were 15-minute or half-hour shows, and you would sit around the table, read the script, rehearse a couple of times, and do it. Then you were out of there and onto the next one. And sometimes it was in the next studio.' Although it was not her first soap opera role, her breakthrough in the genre came with Days Of Our Lives, which she joined from 1966 to 1973. She played the memorable role of Susan Hunter, who murders her husband David (Clive Clerk) by gunshot after he causes a tragic accident that kills their young son.
Winnipeg Free Press
03-05-2025
- General
- Winnipeg Free Press
Family and faith, ferociously: Erminia Nocita lived to look after the people she loved
If there's one word that described Erminia Nocita, it's fierce — or, as she would have said in Italian, 'feroce.' 'She loved fiercely, she cared fiercely (and) she faced all the challenges in her life fiercely,' says Sarah Babson, Nocita's eldest grandchild. 'She kind of had to be that way, I think.' Indeed, Nocita, who died last November at the age of 86, had a lot to contend with. She and her husband, Domenico, moved to Canada from Italy to make a better life for the twins Nocita was pregnant with. About 10 months after Ted and Joe were born, Nocita gave birth to another set of twins, Tony and Sam — even before she spoke English or had made any friends. SUPPLIED Erminia Nocita, here celebrating her 86th birthday in April 2024, died in November surrounded by family, just as she'd lived her life. Caring for Domenico and their four sons became her focus. 'No matter what, you could feel the passion and love for her family when you talked to her,' Babson says. Nocita was born on April 12, 1938, in Satriano, a town in the Calabria region in southern Italy. The second-youngest of 10 children, Nocita was a devout Roman Catholic who considered becoming a nun in her youth. She spent much of her teens and early 20s in a convent, and that's where she met Domenico. The two locked eyes as Domenico walked by one day and they struck up a conversation. They were married in the spring of 1962 and Nocita became pregnant shortly thereafter. Domenico had a brother in Winnipeg and, sensing that life would be better for their family in Manitoba, he and Erminia left Italy. The couple settled in the city for about a year before moving to a rural property north of the Perimeter. Ted and Joe were born at the end of December 1962, and Tony and Sam joined the family the following November. While Domenico worked as a mason, Nocita ran the household. Domenico's brother lived with the family, too. SUPPLIED Nocita (front, seated) was the second youngest in her family, pictured here circa 1950. 'Mom had no close friends, as she didn't have time to go out and socialize,' remembers Ted Nocita, who describes his mother as selfless, generous, hardworking, upbeat and energetic. 'She worked her entire life and sacrificed her life… for her family.' Nocita taught herself English by watching soap operas, including Another World, and cooking shows such as The Galloping Gourmet and Wok with Yan. She dedicated 30 minutes each day to participating in her favourite TV exercise shows and never missed a workout in more than three decades. Cooking for her family was one of the primary ways Nocita expressed her love. She could create something delicious out of the most basic ingredients and had a magical touch that made leftovers taste even better the next day. Sunday family lunches were special occasions that featured many traditional Italian dishes, including pasta, meatballs, chicken and veal cutlets, seafood dishes and salads made using produce from the family's garden. Nocita's legendary Christmas Eve dinners were the highlight of the year and there was such a variety of food that it left the 15 or 20 guests astounded. SUPPLIED Nocita holds her first set of twins, Joe (left) and Ted (right), in 1963. 'That's when she was at her happiest, was when we were all together enjoying a meal,' Ted says. Babson recalls making arancini with her grandmother and requesting her lasagna for family celebrations. She's attempted to make the same foods using Nocita's recipes. 'No matter how hard I tried, even if I followed her instructions to a T… I couldn't get it to be the same,' Babson says. 'She must have added something special or her love could be tasted in it, for sure. I could not replicate it.' 'She was the best cook I have ever known,' adds daughter-in-law, Loretta Nocita, who married Sam in 1987. 'Everything she made was so delicious.' SUPPLIED Nocita with (from left) Joe, Sam, Ted and Tony with the family's 1950s Chevy in 1967. Nocita welcomed two daughters-in-law into the family and eventually six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Her fierce love and concern for everyone were always on display and she generously shared advice on every occasion. Much of that advice related to being strong and honourable, the importance of getting a good education and the value of surrounding yourself with trustworthy people. 'She was fearless, she was strong, she told you what she was thinking and she never held back,' Loretta says. 'You knew when she disagreed with you because she would end the discussion with, 'Ah, what are you going to do?' She said what she was going to say and she respected our choices in the end.' A lifelong music enthusiast who loved classical works and singing Italian folk songs, Nocita started playing the guitar after Domenico died in 2004. She took pleasure in strumming, singing and entertaining. One memorable Christmas at the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg, where she spent her last few years, Nocita captivated everyone when she outperformed the entertainer during a rendition of O Holy Night. SUPPLIED Nocita and husband Domenico (left) met back in Italy when he passed by the convent where she spent her teens and 20s. 'She just started belting it out and took it over and the whole room stopped and watched her,' Ted says. 'She just loved that.' 'When the occasion arose later on in life where she could be around people, she was the joy of the party,' he adds. 'She was very outgoing.' Monday Mornings The latest local business news and a lookahead to the coming week. The once-aspiring nun remained a believer until the end, drawing strength from her deep faith throughout her life. She prayed constantly for every member of her family, confident that God was in control and often stating, 'come vuole Dio' (as God wills). 'When she had adversity, she'd always resort to praying and asking for help from God,' Ted says. 'It was never missing from her life.' Nocita died on Nov. 27, surrounded by family — fitting for a woman who dedicated her life to the people she cared about. SUPPLIED Erminia Nocita was dedicated to her family. 'Her family was everything to her,' Loretta says. 'She lifted us up with her love.' Aaron EppReporter Aaron Epp reports on business for the Free Press. After freelancing for the paper for a decade, he joined the staff full-time in 2024. He was previously the associate editor at Canadian Mennonite. Read more about Aaron. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. 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3yon News
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- 3yon News
مؤسس "سوفت بنك": إنفاق 500 مليار دولار على مشروع "ستارغيت" أمر طبيعي
Actress Alice Hirson, best known for roles on Dallas and Ellen , died at the age of 95 of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills on Friday (February 21), her son, David, confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter . David confirmed that his mother had been hospitalized for about a year prior to her death. The actress appeared on several soap operas between 1969 and 1993 including CBS ' The Edge of Night , NBC 's Another World and its spinoff Somerset and ABC 's One Life to Live , General Hospital and Loving . Hirson also starred in several films including Private Benjamin (1980) and Revenge of the Nerds (1984). The New York native appeared in 26 episodes of Dallas from 1982-88 as Miss Ellie, the wife of Punk Anderson (played by Morgan Woodward) alongside her real-life husband, Stephen Elliott, who played lawyer Scotty Demarest. Hirson later played Lois Morgan, the mother of Ellen Degeneres' titular character Ellen Morgan on the sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998. The actress preivously appeared in musicals early in her career and made her Broadway debut in Traveller Without Luggage in 1964, before later returning for The Investigation in 1966, which debuted across Germany and London on the same day one year prior, and Solitaire/Double Solitaire in 1971 before moving to Los Angeles in 1976.
