{"id":980,"date":"2024-12-12T17:20:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T17:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2024-12-12T17:20:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T17:20:29","slug":"tony-award-winner-and-ryans-hope-star-helen-gallagher-dies-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Tony Award Winner and \u2018Ryan\u2019s Hope\u2019 Star Helen Gallagher Dies at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-569\" class=\"post-569 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-stars\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Helen Gallagher, a popular soap star and two-time Tony Award winner, died at the age of 98 on Sunday in Manhattan. Edith Meeks, the director of the Herbert Berghof Studio, where Gallagher taught, confirmed her passing.<\/p>\n<p>Broadway\u2019s Playbill paid tribute, writing, \u201cWe are saddened to report that two-time Tony winner Helen Gallagher has died at the age of 98.\u201d We extend our sympathies to her family, friends, and admirers.<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher earned her first Tony in 1952 for Pal Joey and her second in 1971 for No, No, Nanette, which also garnered a Drama Desk Award. Her Broadway career included leading roles in Hazel Flagg (1953) and appearances in The Pajama Game, Mame, and Sweet Charity (earning another Tony nomination). Her final Broadway role was in 70, Girls, 70 in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>On television, Gallagher starred as Maeve Ryan on ABC\u2019s Ryan\u2019s Hope (1975\u20131989), winning three Daytime Emmys. She praised the show for its strong writing and realism, calling it \u201cthe best written soap ever.\u201d She also appeared in All My Children, One Life to Live, Law &amp; Order, and The Cosby Mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>Her film credits included Strangers When We Meet (1960) and Roseland (1977). Later in life, Gallagher taught at the Herbert Berghof Studio, leaving a lasting legacy in both theater and education.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-981\" src=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot_20241212_181850_Facebook-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot_20241212_181850_Facebook-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot_20241212_181850_Facebook-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot_20241212_181850_Facebook-768x1369.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot_20241212_181850_Facebook-862x1536.jpg 862w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot_20241212_181850_Facebook.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Gallagher, a popular soap star and two-time Tony Award winner, died at the age of 98 on Sunday in Manhattan. Edith Meeks, the director of the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}