EILEEN
FULTON originated the role of the colorful Lisa Miller on ATWT in 1960
and temporarily brought the character to prime time in the 1965 CBS spin-off
series Our Private World. In 1991, her work was recognized with Soap
Opera Digest's Editor's Award, and in 1996, she received a nomination for a
Soap Opera Award from Soap Opera Digest. Fulton was also named Best Actress in
1970 by Daytime TV Magazine's readers poll, and she remained in the top ten in
this category for 58 of the first 80 issues, which were printed between 1970
and 1977. Fulton was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame on September
14, 1998. At one point, Fulton worked mornings at ATWT, afternoons in matinee
presentations of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on Broadway, and
evenings in the Off Broadway musical "The Fantasticks." Her additional
theater credits include Off Broadway productions of "Abe Lincoln in
Illinois" with Hal Holbrook, "Many Loves," "Summer of the
Seventeenth Doll," and "Nite Club Confidential," in which she
played Kay. She has also appeared in regional theater productions such as "Plaza
Suite," "It Had To Be You" by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna, "The
Owl and the Pussycat," "Goodbye, Charlie" and "Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof." Fulton also appeared as the lead in the theatrical film "Girl of
the Night."
As
a cabaret performer/song-stylist, Fulton has played singing engagements in
many top nightclubs around the country and starred in several one-woman New
York shows. She is also a prolific writer who has co-authored two
autobiographies, "How My World Turns," and "As My World Still Turns,"
and has written six murder mysteries, "Take One for Murder," "Death
of a Golden Girl," "Dying for Stardom," "Lights, Camera, Death,"
A Setting for Murder," and "Fatal Flashback." Fulton majored in
music and minored in dramatics at Greensboro College in North Carolina and
made her professional debut in "The Lost Colony," an annual drama
presentation in Manteo, N.C. In 1956, she moved to New York City and studied
at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater. She has been an active
supporter of such charities as UNICEF, the March of Dimes, Cerebral Palsy, the
Lupus Foundation, and Martha's Table, an organization in Washington DC that
benefits poor and homeless mothers and children. She has established a musical
scholarship in her late father's name at Brevard College in North Carolina and
a Fine Arts scholarship in her name and her mother's at their alma mater,
Greensboro College, where she performed to raise money for the major
renovation of the school's auditorium. Fulton, an avowed women's rights
advocate, has also given her time and energies to numerous causes devoted to
the betterment of women everywhere. Fulton, the daughter of a methodist
minister and a descendant of a long line of clergymen, was born in Asheville,
North Carolina. Her mother was a schoolteacher. Her given name is Margaret
Elizabeth McLarty. She is divorced and currently lives in Manhattan. Her birth
date is September 13, 1933.”
CABARET ACT REVIEWS:
"Magnificent" - Daily News.
"She is Pure Fire and Ice...Joy and
Tears..." - San Francisco
Examiner. "One-Of-A-Kind. . . ."
- News Globe. "A Charmer"
- Variety . "She's Lively . . .
Crowd-Pleasing . . . "A Winner" – Variety"
A Leading Lady with PIZAZZZ...A STAR"
- New York Post. "An Hour Of Pure Seduction" - John Hoglund /
BACKSTAGE. "Fulton's On Perfect
Pitch At Night" - Michael Musto /
DAILY NEWS. "An Evening of
First-Rate Entertainment" - Curt
Yeske-The Times (Trenton, N.J.)