Soap Actress Nancy Frangione Dead at 70
Soap opera actress Nancy Frangione, who was most well-known for her performance in Another World, has passed away. She was 70.
News of her death was shared on Dignity Memorial, with the date of her passing listed as Friday, Aug. 18. She died in her hometown of Barnstable, Massachusetts. A cause of death has not been reported yet.
Frangione debuted as a soap opera actress in 1977 as Tara Martin on All My Children. She had a short run in this role, but soon after, she nabbed the part of Cecile DePoulignac in Another World, which she portrayed for many years.
The late actress played Cecile for over three years in the early '80s, returning to the role any chance she got through 1996. Cecile was a bit of a villain as she schemed and manipulated to get what she wanted. As a result, Frangione won Soap Opera Digest’s Outstanding Villainess award for her performance. The classic soap opera ran on NBC from 1964 to 1999.
Frangione also filled in for Andrea Evans as Tina Lord on ABC’s One Life to Live in 1985, and she had a few more notable television appearances, with one-episode parts in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Matlock, and Highway to Heaven in the late 1980s. Frangione then acted in the television movies In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing and Sharing Richard, before appearing in a guest role on The Nanny as Cousin Marsha in the early 1990s.
After 1995, Frangione appeared to retire from acting. In her personal life, she was married to her Another World co-star Christopher Rich from 1982 to 1996. They shared one child together, a daughter named Mariel Rich.
Next: Soap Opera Stars Carson Boatman and Julana Dizon Announce Exciting Family News
