In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2023

The soap opera satellite has mislaid a shining star.

Andrea Evans—whose acting credits see One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful and Passions—died connected July 9 pursuing a "brave" conflict with cancer, her manager Nick Leicht told E! News successful a statement. She was 66.

"I've been moving with Andrea for the past 7 years," Leicht said. "She was specified a tremendous endowment and an implicit joyousness to enactment with."

Evan's publicist Clint Morris added successful a abstracted statement, "Sadly, Andrea has so sadly near us."

"She was an unthinkable endowment but much than that, a fantastic person—always putting household earlier thing else," Morris continued. "Another angel needed to beryllium recruited though."

Evans roseate to fame successful 1978 with her portrayal of Tina Lord on One Life to Live. After the relation was concisely recasted with Kelli Maroney and Marsha Clark, Evans returned to the ABC deed successful 1985 and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award successful 1988 for her performance. 

"It's everlastingly changed me," she told People in 2008. "There's nary mode it could not." 

In summation to Tina Lord, Evans played Patti Weaver on The Young and the Restless, Tawny Moore on The Bold and the Beautiful, Rebecca Hotchkiss on Passions Tawny Moore and Patty Walker on The Bay. She besides appeared connected the films A Low Down Dirty Shame, Ice Cream Man and Hit List.

In 2015, she earned a Daytime Emmy information for her enactment arsenic Vivian Price successful the web series DeVanity.

Evans implicit her forthcoming memoir My One Life to Live shortly earlier her death, according to her manager. 

She is survived by her husband Steve Rodriguez, daughter Kylie and canine Mila.