FLASHBACK: Nancy Addison 1978

Nancy Addison Gets Round

By Earl Wilson
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
May 20, 1978

NEW YORK -- Nancy Addison ... Nancy Addison ... who's Nancy Addison?

The name keeps recurring and gets familiar. She's a determined little brunette of 28, 5-feet-3, 103 pounds, and she's seen Gone With the Wind 15 times and Wuthering Heights 12 times. Once while watching "GWTW" she felt something strange around her kneed. An old man was pinching her.

"I turned and yelled at him," Nancy says. "I wanted to pull him out to the manager's office. It was so subtle the way he did it, I hardly knew it was happening."

But it isn't her getting pinched (that can happen to any girl in New York) that got Nancy's name around. It's because she's "Jillian," the aggressive lady lawyer in the soap opera RYAN'S HOPE and is breaking into nighttime as a morphine addict in a CBS three-part mini-series, The Dain Curse, May 22-24.

"Introducing" Nancy Addison, the billing says.

50 Greatest Soap Actresses: #45 Nancy Addison

NAME: Nancy Addison
RANK: 45
SOAP ROLES: Deborah Brewster Alden, THE CITY (1995); Deborah Brewster Alden, LOVING (1993-1995); Marissa Rampal, ALL MY CHILDREN (1989); Jillian Coleridge, RYAN'S HOPE (1975-1989); Kit Vested, THE GUIDING LIGHT (1970-1974)

AWARDS:
1995 Soap Opera Digest Award nomination for Outstanding Villainess
1979 Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
1977 Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series

COMMENTS FROM THE PANEL:
Damon L. Jacobs: What made RYAN'S HOPE so delicious was watching the characters' internal dynamics played out on screen.  Nancy Addison particularly was skilled at portraying Jillian's inner dichotomous struggles between rational versus emotional, anger versus understanding, holding a grudge versus forgiving. Whether she was fighting Frank or Seneca, competing with her sister Faith, or waging battle against her enemy Delia, you could always see the wheels turning in Jillian's head as she went forward with her next move.  Nancy Addison fueled this refreshingly non-apologetic feminist with conviction, determination, compassion, and humor.  Her copious talents were taken from us far too soon.