BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE: Denise Alexander, best known for playing #GeneralHospital's Lesley Webber, has died. Here, her TV daughter Genie Francis remembers the icon
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RIP

Really enjoyed watching her on GH and AW. I wish more of her Days work was available to see. 

Very sad to hear the news of Denise’s passing.

Glad we got some final appearances from her on GH as Lesley. R.I.P. to her.

RIP Denise Alexander. Such and awesome actress. Loved her opposite the late Chris Robinson. The glory days of GH.

Seriously, the Grim Reaper needs to lay the hell off of daytime for a while. Anyway, this is how you play a back from the dead scene.

 

She'll always be Mary McKinnon to me. She is definitely a daytime legend who will be missed. 

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Seriously, the Grim Reaper needs to lay the hell off of daytime for a while. Anyway, this is how you play a back from the dead scene.

A masterclass. A true masterclass.

Awww man. All of our legends are going.

Leslie Charleson and Leslie Webber are together now. Some of the best of Leslie's work:

 

 

Oh, no. I came in at the tail end of her Susan Martin run on Days and instantly loved her. I started watching GH because of her, not the Luke & Laura phenom. And though I thought AW wasted her as Mary McKinnon, her talent and charisma was still on full display. Thanks for the memories, Denise. 

Before my time, but besides Lesley, I know many say her work on Days as Susan was fabulous. I saw a clip, when Julie met Doug for the first time (with Susan the one that introduced them as BJ Hunnicutt David Banning was in the background!)...

But so much of her work as Susan is not available.

May Denise Alexander rest in peace!

Denise had so much inherent warmth, yet also layered her work with neuroses and emotion, making sure her characters were never as one-dimensional as the writing could have been. She was one of the first high profile poachings from one soap to another, which could have been a recipe for disaster, but she worked hard and turned Lesley into such an integral part of GH's rebuilding. The show may not have survived the '70s without her. 

I wish they'd done more with Lesley when they brought her back in 1996.

I hope more of Denise's run at DAYS will appear.

I enjoyed Denise's work on AW, in a very underwritten part - it felt like she was just hitting her stride in playing the role when she left. 

We are losing so many of our legends, but in moments like this I try to just be grateful we had them for as long as we did. 

I do feel terrible for those at GH as they've been hit hard the last few years. 

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Very sorry to see this news.  My first memory of her and Days was the story of her character Susan Martin shooting her husband after their baby died, and then of course Susan introduced Doug to Julie.  Enjoyed all of her work though.

I don't know what else to say except we have lost another legend at a time when it feels like we are losing too many.

I love that Denise Alexander never played Lesley as some perpetual victim, but as a woman and physician with integrity and backbone.  Rick and Monica made an absolute fool of her with their affair; yet, Lesley was someone who never made you pity her.

Ladies and gentlemen, we aren't just losing veteran actors here.  We're also losing vital parts of this genre's legacy, and that just breaks my heart.

God bless Ms. Alexander and her loved ones.  May she RIP.

Edited May 9May 9 by Khan

Damn

I was hoping Lesley would be at Monica's memorial 

Hoping GH gives Lesley an on screen memorial

Edited May 10May 10 by John