As the World Turns And Guiding Light Alum Lisa Brown Passes Away

The soap opera world has lost a treasured and talented longtime actress. Lisa Brown died on November 24 at the age of 67. She had been ill for a brief time before she passed away.

Daytime fans will remember the actress as Nola Reardon on Guiding Light (1980-1985) and as Ava Snyder on As the World Turns (1986-1994).

Lisa Brown Has Passed Away

According to Soap Opera Digest Lisa passed a short time after one of her onscreen partners died. Michael Tylo, another daytime dynamo, died two months ago and he was Lisa’s former on-screen love interest Quinton on Guiding Light.

Lisa was born Lisa Brown Neary on August 2, 1954, in Kansas City, Missouri. She was a natural performer and much of her life was spent pursuing her passion, acting. In 1975 she joined the cast of Hello Dolly! and Pal Joey. Three years later she joined The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and her biggest Broadway role was on 42nd Street as Peggy Sawyer in 1982-1983.

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Lisa debuted as Nola Reardon on Guiding Light in 1980. She was a bad girl and tried her best to break up fan fave couple Kelly (John Wesley Shipp) and Morgan (Kristen Vigard). Like any good soap minx, she lied to get the deed done–she told him she was pregnant but didn’t bother to say the baby wasn’t his!
Then came the epic love story between Nola and Quint (Michael Tylo), an early supercouple that many fans remember with love and affection.

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Lisa Brown left Guiding Light in 1985 and landed a gig on As The World Turns where she portrayed eldest daughter, Iva Snyder, of the Snyder clan. Fans were gobsmacked when the truth came out that she was the biological mother of Lily Walsh (Martha Byrne) who had no idea she was adopted.

Lisa is survived by her children, James “Buddy” Nielsen, and daughter Victoria, two grandchildren, Penelope Ruiz-Nielsen and Brayden Hopf, and her husband Brian Neary. News of Lisa’s death hit the soap community hard and her onscreen ATWT daughter, Martha Byrne tweeted, “My heart is broken.”

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