Elizabeth Hubbard

Elizabeth Hubbard originated the role of wealthy and devious businesswoman Lucinda Walsh on ATWT in April 1984. The role has earned her many honors including four MVP Awards from Soap Opera Update, seven Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Leading Actress, and ten nominations for Soap Opera Awards from Soap Opera Digest.

Hubbard's numerous Broadway credits include "The Physicists," for which she received the Clarence Derwent Award, "Joe Egg" and "Children! Children!" She also appeared at the Circle in the Square in Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" and opposite George C. Scott in Noel Coward's "Present Laughter." She has had roles in the musicals "Dance a Little Closer," "I Remember Mama," with Liv Ullmann, and "A Time for Singing," and has appeared in both Broadway and touring productions of "Look Back in Anger."

Off Broadway, she appeared in "War and Peace," "The Boys from Syracuse" and "The Threepenny Opera." Additional theater credits, in locations other than New York City, include "Blithe Spirit, "Uncle Vanya" and "Macbeth."

On film, Hubbard can be seen in "Ordinary People," "The Bell Jar" and "I Never Sang for My Father."

Additional work in daytime television includes portraying Dr. Althea Davis on "The Doctors," for which she was the first recipient of a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress, and Edith Wilson in "First Ladies' Diaries," which earned her and additional Daytime Emmy. Hubbard also appeared in the PBS production "Ceremony of Innocence."

After graduating from Radcliffe, cum laude, Hubbard pursued her theatrical education at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she was the first American to receive the school's silver medal. She studied acting with Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg in New York and has studied singing all her life.

She sits on several boards for international humanitarian causes, and she enjoys writing and traveling.

Hubbard, was born in New York City, where she still lives. She has a son Jeremy Bennett, who is a television reporter in Bergen Count, NJ. She was born on December 22.

Related links:

  • Elizabeth Hubbard's Internet Movie Database Filmography
  • Lucinda Walsh Fan Page
  • Elizabeth Hubbard Sounds Off
  • As the World Turns : The Complete Family Scrapbook
  • St. Jude's Charity Benefit - 10/16/98

    Honors:

  • 1974 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama (as Althea in The Doctors)

    Photos:

  • Elizabeth Hubbard at the St. Jude's Charity Benefit - 10/16/98
  • Elizabeth Hubbard from 1974
  • Elizabeth Hubbard and her son from 1974
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    This page last updated 1/7/99.