Eileen Fulton is best known for being the first “bad girl” on television, when she created the role of Lisa Miller on the CBS Soap, “As The World Turns” over 50 years ago. Her character was scandalous enough to attract huge audiences that loved to hate her. Her popularity was so high at that time that CBS produced one of television’s first “primetime soaps” for her when they created the spin off nighttime series, “Our Private World”.

However, it was onstage in the Broadway production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” that Eileen found a balance in her ability to perform both onstage and TV.

In the morning she would tape an episode of “As the World Turns”, then she would be on a Broadway stage for the matinee performance in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, and by evening she would be back onstage in the Off-Broadway musical, “The Fantasticks”. Her other theater credits include the Off-Broadway production of “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” with Hal Holbrook, “Many Loves”, “Summer of the Seventeenth Doll”, and “Night Club Confidential”. She also appeared in regional theater productions such as, “Plaza Suite”, “It Had To be You”, “The Owl and the Pussycat”, “Goodbye Charlie” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. Fulton has also appeared in five independent films which earned her the “Achievement in Television and Film Award” at the Independent Filmmakers Award Ceremony.

In addition, Eileen has co-authored two autobiographies, “How My World Turns” and “As My World Still Turns”; a novel titled “Soap Opera” as well as six murder mysteries, “Take One for Murder”, “Death of a Golden Girl”, “Dying for Stardom”, “Lights, Camera, Death”, “A Setting for Murder” and “Fatal Flashback.”

Eileen is an established recording artist and critically acclaimed cabaret performer. This past December in a special holiday concert, “Eileen Fulton: The Holiday Show” she performed to a sold out crowd at NYC’s famed “Don’t Tell Mama’s”. In April 2010, she returned to the cabaret club with a special three day performance “A Special Tribute to As the World Turns” dedicated to her fans.

To add to her roster of achievements, Fulton has also been the recipient of many prestigious awards and recognition for her work. In 2003, she was presented with the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the TV Academy during the 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. In September 1998, she was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame. The daughter of a Methodist minister and a descendant of a line of clergymen, “Margaret Elizabeth McLarty” made her professional debut in “The Last Colony” in Manteo, North Carolina before moving to New York City to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater.

Fulton established a music scholarship at Brevard College in Brevard, NC in honor of her father as well as a Fine Arts Scholarship in her and her mother’s name at their alma mater of Greensboro College. In 2005 Eileen was awarded an honorary doctorate at Greensboro College when she spoke at their commencement. Today, “Dr. Fulton” resides in New York City along with her two loyal pups, Rosemary Clooney and Ella Fitzgerald.