{"id":13321,"date":"2024-04-22T13:09:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydrama.com\/?p=13321"},"modified":"2024-04-22T13:09:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:09:43","slug":"actress-and-prolific-scribe-meg-bennett-dead-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydrama.com\/young-restless\/news\/actress-and-prolific-scribe-meg-bennett-dead-at-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress And Prolific Scribe Meg Bennett Dead At 75"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meg Bennett, star of stage and screen, who frequently pulled double duty as both actress and writer on daytime dramas, has died. She was 75. Per her obituary<\/a>, she lost her valiant battle with cancer on April 11.<\/p>\n

Meg Bennett, Rest In Peace<\/h2>\n

Already lauded for her two-year stint as Mary Maraschino in\u00a0Grease<\/em> (during the show’s original Broadway run), Bennett landed the plum part of young heroine Liza Walton on Search for Tomorrow<\/em> in 1975. Three years and a bout of hepatitis later, she segued into playing poor, put-upon Julia Newman, wife of new man-about-time Victor Newman on\u00a0The Young and the Restless<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That job lasted for six years, during which time her skills as an amateur on-set script doctor earned her seat at the writers’ table.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, Bennett appeared on Santa Barbara\u00a0<\/em>as biographer Megan Richardson, then boarded its team of scribes as a\u00a0breakdown writer.<\/p>\n

Bennett would go on to serve as both a performer and writer on\u00a0General Hospital\u00a0<\/em>(where she played the villainous Allegra and racked up five Daytime Emmy Award nominations including one win), pen scripts for Generations\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0General Hospital: Night Shift<\/em>, and serve as both associate head writer and co-head writer at\u00a0Sunset Beach<\/em>. The uber-talented multi-hyphen was also game to reprise Julia when called upon, which occurred in 2002, 2018, and 2020.<\/p>\n

Bennett is survived by her husband of 19 years, Sunset Beach<\/em> co-creator and nine-time Daytime Emmy winner Robert Guza Jr. — whom she met while both were toiling at GH — two step-daughters and “four adored grandchildren,” in addition to a brother, a sister, and several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n

Meg Bennett’s Industry Family Mourn Her Passing<\/h2>\n
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Sending our condolences to Meg Bennett\u2019s family and loved ones. Y&R was lucky enough to have Meg share her talent both on camera as \u201cJulia Newman\u201d and off camera as member of the Writing staff under Bill Bell. pic.twitter.com\/pUdmQbBB7Y<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Young & The Restless (@YRInsider) April 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n