Your favorite soap stars deserve all the praise and kudos and that you can offer – it ain’t easy doing what they do day in and day out for decades on end. And if that adulation occasionally manifests in the form of honors and accolades then all the better.
Which Soap Star Was It?
All of these actresses are either an alum of a long-ago classic – like The Doctors – or they currently star in, or are alums of, one of the four remaining daytime dramas – The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless.
And all of them have been duly awarded for their outstanding performances. However, only one can boast that she was named “Most Promising Newcomer” by the Hollywood Foreign Press.
But who can that actress be? Was it Susan Flannery (ex-Stephanie Forrester, BB), Suzanne Rogers (Maggie Horton Kiriakis, DAYS), Elizabeth Hubbard (ex-Althea Davis, DOCTORS), or Amelia Heinle (Victoria Newman, YR)?
Suzanne Rogers
The year 1979 proved to be a banner one for Rogers. Not only was Maggie front and center and in the throes of alcoholism, but Rogers’ valiant efforts at playing a woman on the edge netted her the first Supporting Actress trophy ever awarded at the Daytime Emmys. However, Rogers didn’t get any love at a Golden Globes show.
Elizabeth Hubbard
Like Rogers after her, Hubbard was a trailblazer where the Daytime Emmys were concerned. For it was she who snagged the coveted Lead Actress statuette at the Innaugural Daytime Emmy Awards.
The series for which she won was The Doctors – which walked away with the first Outstanding Drama Series trophy – and the storyline featured Hubbard’s character reacting to the fact that her daughter was under suspicion for murdering her step-father.
Amelia Heinle
Heinle has not won a Golden Globe yet; however, she does have two Daytime Emmys – both for Outstanding Supporting Actress (2014 and 2015). And though she wasn’t named “Most Promising Newcomer,” Heinle was called one of TV’s Most Beautiful Women and she was singled out by TV Guide magazine as having “Big Screen Potential.”
Susan Flannery
It was her work in the all-star, big-screen disaster picture The Towering Inferno that led Flannery to be dubbed 1975’s New Star of the Year – Actress by the HFP. That year’s male winner was actor Joseph Bottoms (ex-Cal Winters, DAYS; ex-Kirk Cranston, Santa Barbara) for his work in the biopic The Dove.
So, if you guessed that the soap star in question was Susan Flannery – who is also a four-time winner of the Outstanding Lead Actress Daytime Emmy – then you were absolutely correct!
