Marnie Schulenburg, identified for her roles in cleaning soap operas “Because the World Turns” and “One Life to Stay,” died Tuesday in New York attributable to a complication from breast most cancers, a consultant confirmed to Selection. She was 37.
Schulenburg’s husband Zack Robidas, an actor identified for his roles in “Sorry for Your Loss” and “Succession,” additionally confirmed the information by way of a Fb submit, by which he thanked her followers for his or her assist after Schulenburg’s prognosis.
“Please don’t say Marnie misplaced her battle to most cancers. It’s merely not true. I watched her kick most cancers’s ass on a regular basis since prognosis,” the submit reads. “She is unimaginable. We selected to assault her prognosis with blind optimism. We solely talked concerning the future and continued shifting ahead. I don’t know if this was proper but it surely’s all we knew the best way to do.”
Schulenburg was born in Cape Cod, Mass., and studied theater at DeSales College. After faculty, she started her profession in theater, acting at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Pageant and for the Dramatists Guild of America in New York Metropolis.
Schulenburg’s first tv credit score was as Alison Stewart, her character in “Because the World Turns.” She was the second actor to painting the character, after Jessica Dunphy left the present in 2005.
She made her first look as Alison in 2007, throughout a crossover between “Because the World Turns” and “The Younger and the Stressed.” Schulenburg then joined the primary forged of “Because the World Turns” and appeared for over 300 episodes till the present was cancelled in 2010.
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Throughout her tenure on the present, Schulenburg’s most frequent scene companion was Billy Magnussen, who performed her love curiosity Casey Hughes. Their character’s romance was a central a part of the present’s latter years, and the present ended with them getting engaged and planning to maneuver away. Schulenburg obtained a Daytime Emmy Nomination for her efficiency within the closing yr of the present.
Three years later, Schulenburg starred in a short-lived revival of the ABC cleaning soap opera “One Life to Stay,” portraying the character of Jo Sullivan. From 2014 to 2017, she starred within the meta cleaning soap opera “Tainted Goals,” which adopted the backstage drama of a cleaning soap opera forged.
Apart from her cleaning soap roles, she additionally had recurring and visitor appearances in exhibits resembling “Fringe,” “Military Wives,” “Blue Bloods,” “Manhattan Love Story,” “Elementary,” “The Good Battle” and “Divorce.” As well as, she had a recurring function within the upcoming third season of Showtime drama “Metropolis on the Hill,” starring Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge. The season will premiere this July.
Schulenburg is survived by Robidas and their daughter.
