Ellen Virginia Holly (1931 - 2023)

Born 16 Jan 1931 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Ancestors

Died 6 Dec 2023 at age 92 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

Ellen Holly is Notable.

Ellen Holly was a New Yorker.

Ellen Virginia Holly was an African-American actress. She began her career on stage in the late 1950s and was perhaps best known for her role as Carla Gray–Hall on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (1968–1980; 1983–1985). Holly is noted as the first African-American to appear on daytime television in a leading role.^[1]

She was born 16 January 1931 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, the daughter of William Garnet Holly and Grayce Wanda Arnold.

She never married or had children and died at the age of 92 on 8 December 2023 at Calvary Hospital in The Bronx, New York City, New York.

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia:Ellen_Holly

• "United States Census, 1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K79C-JLY : Tue Nov 28 18:05:26 UTC 2023), Entry for William Holly and Grace Holly, 1940.

• Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Queens, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02746; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 41-1384.

• "United States 1950 Census", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X5Q-9JV9 : Tue Oct 03 22:12:10 UTC 2023), Entry for William G Holly and Grayce C Holly, 10 April 1950.

• Ancestry.com. 1950 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022. National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: New York, Queens, New York; Roll: 6235; Page: 6; Enumeration District: 41-1683.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/262082282/ellen-holly: accessed 02 January 2024), memorial page for Ellen Holly (16 Jan 1931–6 Dec 2023), Find a Grave Memorial ID 262082282; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by Find a Grave.

SEE ALSO:

• Wikidata: Item Q5364884, en:Wikipedia
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ellen-holly-pioneering-black-actress-on-one-life-to-live-dies-at-92/ar-AA1lavmp
• https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ellen-holly-104995
• Lynch, Hillary. "The Box: Looking Back At Daytime's First Black Leading Actress Ellen Holly". A Hot Set. Archived from the original on February 24, 2022.
• Levinsky, Mara (December 7, 2023). "Remembering One Life to Live Legend Ellen Holly, 1931–2023". Soap Opera Digest. United States: A360media. ISSN 0164-3584.
• Garfield, David (1980). "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 278.
• Holly, Ellen (September 15, 1968). "How Black Do You Have To Be?; How Black Do You Have To Be?".

WATCH & LISTEN:

• https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/ellen-holly