Theater News

As the World Turns Star Helen Wagner Dies at 91

Actress Helen Wagner, a Broadway veteran who took on the role of Nancy Hughes on the CBS daytime drama As The World Stars in 1956 and remained part of the show’s cast until the present day, has died at age 91.

Wagner appeared in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma! as well as the 1941 musical Sunny River and a 1946 production of The Winter’s Tale.

She worked in television in the 1950s, including originating the role of Trudy Bauer Palmer in The Guiding Light, before joining ATWT.

In 2004, she received a Daytime Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement.