Margaret DePriest

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Margaret DePriest
Born (1931-04-19) April 19, 1931 (age 92)
OccupationActress/Writer
Years active1955–present
SpousePaul Price

Margaret DePriest (born April 19, 1931) [1] is a retired American actress and daytime serial writer. She was nominated for 5 Daytime Emmy Award awards for her writing and in 1965 won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Place for Chance.

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Life and career

She began her career as an actress both onstage and on television. Her acting credits include a contract role as Abby Cameron #1 on The Edge of Night from 1965 to 1966. She also played social worker Mrs. Berger on the NBC serial The Doctors .

In the mid-1960s, she began writing The Edge of Night . In 1969, she co-created and was co-head writer of CBS Daytime's Where the Heart Is .

She has served as head writer for several serials, including General Hospital , Days of Our Lives , All My Children , Another World , One Life to Live , and Sunset Beach .

She is married to writer Paul Price. [2]

Positions held

The Doctors

All My Children

Another World

Days of Our Lives

General Hospital

The Edge of Night

One Life to Live

Sunset Beach

Where the Heart Is

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Award

Writers Guild of America Award

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  1. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KJKN-ST2 Date of birth, familysearch.org; accessed June 13, 2014.
  2. "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved Jun 9, 2021.