I was reading a post on her the other day about Gillian Spencer being an unsung soap star, and that she is. She needs to be on someone's soap. She can play Heirone (Viki Lord, Jennifer Ryan-Hughes) or she can bring on the wit (Daisy Cortlandt) She has great chemistry with the cast she works with. Name some Unsung Soap Actresses and Actors who left Daytime too soon.

Brenda Epperson, Christopher Templeton and Richard Biggs yet

+1.

I mentioned Cali. I was going to mention Brenda, I swear. She's still the Ashley I had such good memories of (of course they didn't make her steal sperm).

Richard He was great on daytime but I always think of him for his work on Babylon 5.

I didn't know Marsha was still working in soaps. It's a shame DAYS doesn't do more with her. Her work as Hillary was, from the clips I've seen, really really good. She was funny, cautious, supportive, yet not a pushover. She was very relateable. I think GL writing off the relateable women is one of the reasons their ratings fell.

I will also add:

Lenore Kasdorf

Denise Pence

Lisa Cerasoli

Cynthia Preston

Julian Stone

Cassandra Creech

Patricia Elliott

Amy Grabow(very short role on GH, but loads of potential on any soap)

Real Andrews

Wendy Moniz

Don Jeffcoat

Ingrid Rogers

Sarah Buxton

Dominique Jennings

Edited March 20, 201015 yr by Jikk77

Bring Wendy Moniz to The Young & the Restless.

Before we even knew what an Alicia Minshew was, she was my pick to replace SMG as Kendall.

Before we even knew what an Alicia Minshew was, she was my pick to replace SMG as Kendall.

You apparently never saw her brilliant 90s work on maxi pad ads...

I think Wendy is good as a bitch but when they tried to make her poor little rich girl/heroine on GL I had to tune out.

Kristina Wagner. Not the best actress ever, but beautiful, pleasant, the camera loves her, she has a nice persona, and when called on she delivered one of the most dramatic moments in GH history. She has so many things going for her looks and charm wise, not being Meryl Streep doesn't really enter into her equation, or shouldn't anyway.

Sharon Wyatt

Sharon Gabet

Edited March 20, 201015 yr by quartermainefan

Kristina was such a reliable part of GH, and underrated, then they destroyed Felicia with that Luke affair. I hated it when they brought her back and they kept saying what a terrible mother she was.

The two Sharons were definitely superb.

A few others:

Nancy Pinkerton

Lauren Marie-Taylor

Laura Koffman

Wortham Krimmer

Would Larry Haines be considered underrated? This probably sounds insane, but I know him more as Gwyn's (the underrated Christine Tudor) dad on Loving than from Search, but you just gotta love the guy. His little grunts and Bob Newhart stammers, he was so Disney.

We didn't see his best years on Search so in that sense he and many other vets from the days of soaps we will never really see are underrated. I liked him a lot on Loving. I also liked him on AW as Ada's boyfriend.

Nancy Pinkerton, now there's a name that makes me wish I'd been born a decade sooner. '70s OLTL and AW are my top picks for lost episodes I'd love to see.

We didn't see his best years on Search so in that sense he and many other vets from the days of soaps we will never really see are underrated. I liked him a lot on Loving. I also liked him on AW as Ada's boyfriend.

Oh wow, I didn't realize he'd played Ada's boyfriend. I remember how pleasantly surprised I was when I realized that the Chief from Gimme a Break (Dolph Sweet) had been Ada's husband. I have an episode with them and from what I gather a lot of their scenes took place in their kitchen.

On Loving, before Lisa Peluso took over the role of Ava, there was Roya Megnot

Here's part 3 of Jack and Stacey's Rehearsal Dinner but the entire episode she shines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-02ipUbp0Gg

Ann Flood, how could I forget her? That means she epitomizes this topic.

Whatever happened to Laurie Heineman on AW? She won an Emmy for Lead Actress beating out colleagues Wyndham and McKinsey yet never did another soap again and disappeared in the '80s. She had done ATWT before AW, yet it strikes me as odd someone could beat out the best of daytime yet vanish afterward(Hello Lila Kedrova and Mercedes Ruehl!)

Edited March 20, 201015 yr by soapfan770