Tony Award winning actress and former soap opera star Ann Wedgeworth passed away on Thursday. She was 83.Wedgeworth's daughter Dianna Martin said the actress died close to her home in New York City after a long illness in a nursing home.
After playing Marie Warren and, later, Angie Talbot on CBS soap The Edge of Night, Wedgeworth moved to NBC's Another World in 1967 to create the role of Lahoma Vane. In March 1970, Lahoma and her husband, Sam Lucas, left Bay City for the spin-off series Somerset. Wedgeworth left Somerset in September 1973.
In a 1980 People magazine interview, Wedgeworth described her six years in the soaps as "dreary and horrible".
She went on to win a Tony Award in 1978 for her work in "Chapter Two," and later memorably played Lana Shields on ABC's hit sitcom Three's Company.