10 to Win Lifetime Honors at Daytime Emmys

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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A total of 10 veteran daytime actors will receive lifetime-achievement awards from the National Television Academy during the Daytime Emmy Awards May 21.

The honor is usually given to one actor, but this year General Hospital’s Rachel Ames and Anna Lee; Days Of Our Lives’ John Clarke and Frances Reid; The Young and the Restless’ Jeanne Cooper; As The World Turns’ Eileen Fulton, Don Hastings and Helen Wagner (who plays the longest running character in TV history); and All My Children’s Ruth Warrick and Ray MacDonnell will receive awards.

To qualify for the award, actors need to be an original cast member of his or her current show, have spent 35 years or more on the show; or have significant lifetime experience in daytime drama.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.