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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2023
The acting satellite is mourning a tragic nonaccomplishment of a TV trailblazer.
All My Children alum Jeffrey Carlson, who played 1 of the archetypal transgender characters connected daytime television, has died, according to aggregate reports. He was 48.
The soap star's decease was archetypal announced publically by Time Out New York theatre exertion Adam Feldman. "RIP Jeffrey Carlson, 48, exposed-nerve prima of Broadway (Billy successful The Goat, Marilyn successful Taboo) and TV (the groundbreaking trans quality Zoe connected All My Children)," helium tweeted July 8. "A almighty histrion and a achy loss."
Carlson, a autochthonal of Long Beach, Calif., was a postgraduate of University of California Davis who besides studied astatine New York City's Juilliard School. He began his acting vocation onstage, making his Broadway debut successful the 2002 play The Goat, oregon Who Is Sylvia?.
In 2003, portion continuing his theater career successful New York City, Carlson made his onscreen debut with a tiny relation successful the indie movie Happy End. He later appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and the movie Hitch before helium landed his breakout acting relation on All My Children.
He made his debut connected the soap opera in 2006, playing a stone prima who later comes retired connected the amusement arsenic a woman named Zoe, earlier exiting the amusement aft a year. It marked his last onscreen relation and what is believed to beryllium the 2nd clip a daytime bid has featured an histrion successful a transgender role, the archetypal being the ABC soap The City successful 1996, according to Out magazine.
"They hired maine arsenic a time subordinate but past they wrote maine connected the show. My parents were thrilled," Carlton told Chicago-based LGBTQ+ newspaper Windy City Times in 2013. "I had a gathering with the shaper and they explained that they wanted to bash the archetypal coming retired communicative of a transgender from antheral to pistillate connected daytime television. I asked, 'How are you going to bash it?' She said, 'With dignity.'"
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Eden Riegel, who played Zoe's person Bianca on All My Children, paid tribute to her precocious costar connected Twitter pursuing quality of his death. "Devastated beyond measurement to perceive of the passing of the beauteous and talented Jeffrey Carlson," the histrion wrote. "I consciousness fortunate to person called this benignant psyche a person and spot his superb enactment up close. Gone acold excessively soon — an unimaginable loss. Love you, Jeffrey. Rest friend."
Meanwhile, Susan Hart, a chap signifier performer who taught Shakespearean acting with Carlson successful Chicago years ago, besides mourned her person and workfellow online. "Good nighttime my saccharine sweet saccharine prince among men," she wrote connected Facebook July 7. "No words for our despair astatine losing you Jeffrey Carlson. You were … ohio God… nary words… truthful so loved and adored."
She added, "For those of you that don't know, I'm precise atrocious to stock the quality that Jeffrey passed distant yesterday. I person been respectful of his family's privateness successful not sharing the quality sooner… besides could not respire oregon function… inactive can't… emotion to all… conscionable devastated.."
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