Actress Shell Kepler, who for years played the gossipy nurse Amy Vining on the TV soap opera GENERAL HOSPITAL, has died. She was 49.Kepler died Friday, February 1 at Oregon Health & Science University hospital, which did not give the cause of death.
Kepler's busybody character on "General Hospital" was a fan favorite and enjoyed a long run, 1979-2002.
In addition to her run on GENERAL HOSPITAL, she was also in a 1982 Joan Collins film, Homework, and a couple of episodes of the situation comedy THREE'S COMPANY.
On the side, she was a businesswoman, marketing clothing on the former Home Shopping Club. She said in a 1994 Associated Press interview that her "Lacy Afternoon" collection had sales topping $20 million that year alone.