Susan Seaforth Hayes
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Susan Seaforth Hayes (born Susan Seaforth on July 11, 1943 in Oakland, California)[1] is an American actress.
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[edit] Career
Susan Seaforth grew up in Hollywood; her mother, Elizabeth Harrower (1918-2003), was an actress and writer who eventually became a part of the writing team of The Young and the Restless.
Seaforth Hayes had a number of featured roles on primetime television, and was active in theater as a teenager, but is best-known for her role as Julie Olson Williams on the soap opera Days of our Lives. She played the role from 1968 to 1984 and again from 1990 to 1993, with additional appearances in 1994, 1996, and 1999-present as a recurring cast member.
Her onscreen and real-life romance with costar Bill Hayes (Doug Williams) was widely covered by both the soap opera magazines and the mainstream press (they married in 1974).[2] The characters of Doug and Julie were Days of our Lives as well as daytime TV's 's first supercouple,[2] and are widely believed to be the first supercoupling on the American daytime serials.[citation needed] Their appearance together on the January 12, 1976 cover of Time magazine was the first time daytime actors had appeared there.[1]
As of January 2010, she is the only actor to appear on Days of Our Lives in all six decades that it has been on the air, although Frances Reid, an original cast member since 1965, has been on contract with the show in all six decades but has not appeared on the show in 2010. In between roles, she guest-starred as Joanna Manning, mother to Tracey E. Bregman's character, Lauren Fenmore, on The Young and the Restless and as District Attorney Patricia Steele on Sunset Beach in that show's final months on the air.
In 2005, she and Hayes published their joint autobiography, Like Sands Through The Hourglass.
The role of Stephanie Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful was created for her by former Days headwriter William J. Bell. When she turned it down, her former Days costar Susan Flannery took the role.[citation needed]
[edit] Major Roles:
- Julie Olson Williams on Days of our Lives
- (1968-1984; 1990-1993) [contract]
- (1994, 1996) [guest stints]
- (1999-2003; 2004-present) [recurring]
- Joanna Manning on The Young and the Restless
- (1984-1989) [contract]
- (2005, 2006) [guest stints]
- Joanna Manning on The Bold and the Beautiful
- (2003) [guest stint]
- D.A. Patricia Steele on Sunset Beach
- (1999) [recurring]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "SOAP STAR STATS: Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie, Days of Our Lives)". SoapOperaDigest.com. http://www.soapoperadigest.com/soapstarstats/susanseaforthhayesbio/. Retrieved May 20, 2009.
- ^ a b Waggett, Gerard J. (November 1997). "One Life to Live". The Soap Opera Encyclopedia. Harper Paperbacks. pp. 91. ISBN 0-06-101157-6.
