20 (Okay 22!) Oscar Winners Who Appeared on Soaps!
By Jamey Giddens on February 28, 2012
No. 13. Marisa Tomei, As The World Turns
Who can forget Marisa Tomei’s shocking 1993 Best Supporting Actress win for her wisecracking turn as the fiancé of Joe Pesci’s title character in My Cousin Vinny? Hollywood may have been stunned by the starlet's upset victory, but fans of daytime soap opera As The World Turns were probably happy to see former teen queen Marcy Thompson, a part Tomei played in 1984, walk away with the golden lady.
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26 February 2009
43 weeks 4 days
Surprised Beatrice Straight (Love of Life, Supporting Actress winner for Network) isn't on here. Or Ellen Burstyn, who was one of the leads on The Doctors in the mid-60's, under the name Kate Bartok. Olympia Dukakis was on Search for Tomorrow in a contract role only about 5-6 years before she won an Oscar.
Ben Kingsley was on Corrie as one of David Barlow's friends, off and on from 66-67. Ian McKellen was on the show in 2005 for a cameo.
2 December 2011
4 hours 28 min
I know Julienne Moore didn't win, just nominated but she and Marisa Tomei shared the screen for a year on As The World turns, she Tomei played Marcy and Moore played Frannie. I mention this because the scene posted here is with an earlier version of Frannie and it would've been cool if the scene posted was of them together.
26 February 2009
43 weeks 4 days
They also shared a dressing room.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEOiVTr9QnY&feature=related
8 February 2010
8 hours 16 min
Loved seeing Shane McDermott (ex-AMC) in Mira Sorvino's clip. Thanks!
12 January 2010
5 days 17 hours
What a fun article Jamey!
29 February 2012
1 year 15 weeks
Didn't George Kennedy also have a role on Y&R a few years back?
And one of the first soap actors to win an oscar was Mercedes McCambridge, who was in the original cast of "The Guiding Light" on radio.
Also Eva Marie Saint, on the first television version of One Man's Family.
Don Ameche was on radio's "Betty and Bob," as was Van Heflin.