Marnie Schulenberg, soap opera actress who portrayed Alison Stewart on CBS As the world turns and Joe Sullivan on One life to live reboot, after a battle with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. She was 37 years old.
Schulenberg died Tuesday in Bloomfield, New Jersey, her representative Kyle Locker told Industry Entertainment. The Hollywood Reporter.
Among the survivors is her husband, Succession And I’m sorry for your loss Actor Zach Rubidas – they married in September 2013 – and their daughter, Coda, 2. She was diagnosed five months after Coda was born in December 2019.
Schulenberg made her daytime debut as Stewart on CBS Youth and turmoil In 2007 after re-introducing the character in the online production “Digital Daytime: L.A. Diaries”, which also starred Adrienne Frantz (Amber Moore on Y&R).
Schulenberg played Stewart As the world turns By canceling the show in 2010 – she received a Daytime Emmy nomination that year – then she joined One life to live Like Sullivan when an ABC fan came back as a web series on Hulu and iTunes in 2013.
Schulenberg, the trombonist’s daughter, was born on May 21, 1984, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She attended Barnstable High School in Massachusetts and Desales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, graduating with a degree in theater in 2006.
A gymnast once, she appeared in plays for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and for the Dramatic League of America in New York City before landing on television.
Schulenberg has also guest starred on prime-time shows such as Blue bloodAnd marginAnd primaryAnd royal pain And good fight She will recur next season as Maggie Kaysen in the Showtime drama city on a hill.
She was discharged from the hospital on Mother’s Day to spend time with her husband and daughter Chicnose soap mentioned.
“I know I’m here for [Coda] She is the best gift I can give her,” she wrote recently, “but for now, it feels like I’ve settled for her getting a half-life version of myself.” My mom was showing 100 percent all day every day to me growing up, or at least it seemed that way. I want to give Coda the same, but I have to be kind to myself and remember that nothing is permanent.”
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