Ellen Dolan
| Ellen Dolan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 16, 1955 Monticello, Iowa |
| Years active | 1981- |
Ellen Dolan (born October 16, 1955 in Monticello, Iowa, USA) is an American actress.
She has starred in television soap operas such as Guiding Light, where she played the role of Maureen Reardon Bauer from 1982 to 1986, and As the World Turns, where she played the role of Margo Hughes from 1989 to 1993, and from 1994 to 2010.
In 1992 The National Television Academy nominated her for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress.
Her additional television credits include the made-for-television movies Mother’s Day, Mothers, Daughters and Lovers with Helen Shaver and Claude Akins, and Dancing with Danger, with Cheryl Ladd and Ed Marinaro.
Her stage career began in 1980 at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater with roles such as Katrin in Mother Courage. Her subsequent roles in numerous regional productions have included Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Virginia Stage Company, May in How the Other Half Loves at the Pennsylvania Stage Company, and Clelia in The Nerd at the Capitol Repertory in Albany, NY. She also started a theater company in New York called The Studio Three Group. She joined a repertory group called the WorkShop Theater Company in 2004 and has had leading roles in several mainstage productions there.
Dolan earned her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees in theater from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. While working toward her bachelor's degree, she spent a summer studying dramatic arts at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
On April 28, 2006, Angela made her first on-camera appearance on The Captain Humphreys Project, a daily video web show (see [1]).
Ellen and businessman Doug Jeffrey had their first child, a daughter, Angela Emmett Jeffrey (born April 15, 2000).
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