Ellen Dolan

Ellen Dolan joined ATWT as Margo Hughes in November 1989. She had been asked to consider the part by the late Douglas Marland, the head writer for the serial, who had created Dolan's former role of Maureen Bauer on Guiding Light.

Dolan debuted as Maureen Bauer on GL in 1982 and portrayed the popular character for the next four years. Additional television credits include various primetime series and the made-for-television movies Mother's Day, Mothers, Daughters and Lovers, (with Helen Shaver and Claude Atkins), and Dancing with Danger (with Cheryl Ladd and Ed Marinaro).

Dolan's stage career began in 1980 at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre with roles such as Katrin in Mother Courage. Subsequent roles in numerous recent productions have included Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Virginia Stage Company, May in How the Other Half Loves at the Pennsylvania Stage Company and Clelia in The Nerd at the Capitol Repertory in Albany, New York. She also started a theater company in New York called The Studio Three Group.

Dolan earned her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees in theatre from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. While working toward her bachelor's degree, she spent a summer studying dramatic arts at the Webber Douglas Academy in London.

Dolan was born in Monticello, Iowa, raised in Decorah, Iowa, and currently lives in Greenwich Village in New York City. Ellen was born on October 16.

Related links:

  • Ellen Dolan's Internet Movie Database Filmography
  • As the World Turns: The Complete Family Scrapbook
  • Guiding Light: The Complete Family Scrapbook
  • Ellen Dolan & Scott Holmes Chat Transcript (2/3/99)
  • Soap Opera Online Directory: Dolan

    Honors:

  • Soap Opera Weekly's Outstanding Performer for the week of September 21, 1998, 10/20/98 issue
  • Named one of Daytime's 50 Most Beautiful People by Soap Opera Magazine (7/14/98 issue)
  • Soap Opera Magazine Star of the Week (8/18/98 issue) along with co-star Scott Holmes
  • Standing Ovation/Curtain Call from Soap Opera News (11/3/98 issue)

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    This page last updated 4/1/99.