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3yon News
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- 3yon News
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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.
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Alice Hirson, Soap Opera Vet and Mom to Ellen, Dead at 95
Alice Hirson, a veteran character actress whose TV credits included more than a half dozen daytime and primetime soaps, and who played mom to Ellen on the 1990s ABC sitcom, died Feb. 14 of natural causes, her son David told Hirson was 95. More from TVLine Kim Sae-ron, Star of Bloodhounds and Leverage, Dead at 24 Bruce French, Passions Actor, Dead at 79 David Lynch's Cause of Death Revealed After beginning her acting career in the 1950s with appearances on a few anthology series, Hirson joined ABC's daytime serial The Edge of Night in the series regular role of the vengeful and sometimes murderous Stephanie Martin. She went on to play Marcia Davis in both NBC's Another World and its offshoot Somerset, and in the early 1970s played Joe Riley's big sister, Eileen, on ABC's One Life to Live. TV Stars We Lost in 2025 View Gallery10 Images From there, Hirson's TV credits included episodes of Maude, The Waltons, Barnaby Jones and Taxi. In 1982, she had a short arc on ABC's General Hospital, which she followed up with episodes of Quincy M.E., Hotel and (the original) Matlock. On CBS' Dallas, Hirson had a run as Mavis Anderson, friend and confidante of Miss Ellie Ewing. That was followed by a series regular role on the NBC sitcom Home Fires, and in 1994 she made her debut as Ellen DeGeneres' TV mom, Lois Morgan, in the aforementioned Ellen. Hirson's more recent TV credits included Home Fires, 7th Heaven (as Jenny Jackson), The Secret Life of the American Teenager (as Mimsy), and a 2019 episode of Will & Grace. Best of TVLine Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Showtime Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More 'Missing' Shows, Found! The Latest on Severance, Holey Moley, Poker Face, YOU, Primo, Transplant and 25+ Others
