Denise Alexander, a cleaning soap opera celebrity remembered fondly for lengthy runs on “Days of Our Lives” and “Basic Hospital,” has died.
Cleaning soap Opera Digest was first to report that Alexander handed away greater than two months in the past, on March 5.
Her outdated pal and co-star Susan Seaforth Hayes — whose husband and fellow cleaning soap actor Invoice Hayes died final 12 months — remembered Alexander on Instagram, writing, “Denise Alexander was a pal to treasure and an actress to applaud. She was properly established on Days once I joined the forged as Julie #4 (a substitute for 4 earlier actresses). She watched Billy and I fall head over heels in love and, being a romantic woman herself, cheered us on.”
She went on, “Such completely happy recollections of her years in Salem and her nice success on Basic Hospital. We each started as youngster actors, each had sturdy moms and each had been raised as Christian Scientists in our early years. I used to be grateful for her knowledge, style, humor, and goodness each time I noticed her. It was by no means sufficient. And my love for her won’t ever be over. ❤️#DeniseAlexander.”
Alexander was born November 11, 1939, in New York Metropolis, the daughter of agent Alec Alexander.
She first appeared on TV in 1950, debuted on Broadway within the 1952 revival of “The Youngsters’s Hour,” and made her feature-film debut in “Crime within the Streets” (1956), which starred Sal Mineo, one in all her dad’s shoppers.
Alexander’s first foray into soaps was on “The Clear Horizon” (1960), however she made her first actually massive impression within the style as Susan Hunter Martin on “Days of Our Lives,” a task she performed from 1966-1973.
She was poached by “Basic Hospital” throughout a wage negotiation, becoming a member of the forged as Dr. Lesley Williams. She performed the half 1973-1984, 1996-2009, in 2013, and in particular visitor appearances in 2019 and 2021.
Alexander was preceded in demise by her longtime husband Richard A. Colla in 2021.