Andrea Evans obit

Andrea Evans, ‘One Life to Live’ and ‘Passions’ Star, Dies at 66

"Daytime's Diva of Dirt" famously portrayed Tina Lord on the ABC soap but had to quit when she was threatened by a stalker. 

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Andrea Evans, the popular soap opera star known for her turns as Tina Lord on ABC’s One Life to Live and Rebecca Hotchkiss on NBC/DirecTV’s Passions, has died. She was 66.

Evans died Sunday at her home in Pasadena after a battle with breast cancer, casting director Don Carroll told The Hollywood Reporter.

Evans came to fame by playing Tina — People magazine nicknamed her “Daytime’s Diva of Dirt” — on One Life to Live from 1979-81 and from 1985-90. However, she had to abruptly quit the soap after a stalker accosted her in the lobby of the show’s Manhattan studio in 1987 and later sent her death threats, some of them written in blood.

The fear “forever changed me. There’s no way it could not,” she told People in 2008.

Evans returned to the world of daytime as Tawny Moore on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful in 1999-2000, then spent the next eight years as Rebecca on Passions through its 2008 conclusion.

She followed with two other brief stints as Tina on One Life to Live in 2008 and 2011 — when her character remarried John Loprieno’s Cord Roberts — and came back as Tawney, too, for a 2010 episode of The Bold and the Beautiful.

On CBS’ The Young and the Restless, she played Patty Williams from 1983-84 and Tawny for an installment in 2010.

At the Daytime Emmys, Evans was nominated for outstanding ingenue in a drama series in 1988 for One Life to Live and outstanding performer in a “new approaches” drama series in 2015 for playing Vivian Price on DeVanity, an internet series.

Her last acting credit came on the Prime Video series The Bay; she was on that show from 2017-2020.

Born on June 18, 1957, in Aurora, Illinois, Evans attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While still in college, she was hired as an extra on Brian De Palma film The Fury (1978).

She later appeared in such features as A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994), Ice Cream Man (1995) and Hit List (2012) and on game shows including The $10,000 Pyramid and Hollywood Squares.

Evans worked for the City of Hope and various animal rescue organizations and recently completed a memoir, My One Life to Live, Carroll said.

Survivors include her husband, Steve, and their daughter, Kylie.

 

Filmography

 

Year     Title            Role            Notes

1978    The Awakening Land    Fay Morrison Wheeler            Miniseries; Episode: "Part III: The Town"

1978–1981, 1985–1990, 2008, 2011            One Life to Live            Tina Lord     July 1978–December 1981; February 1985–January 1990; June–November 2008; September–November 2011

In 1985, Evans also portrayed a younger version of her character's mother, Irene Manning, in flashbacks.

1982    CHiPs            Julie            Episode: "Meet the New Guy" (as Andrea Evans Massey)

1983–1984            The Young and the Restless            Patty Williams            July 1983–October 1984

1984    Arch of Triumph            Nurse Eugenie            TV movie

1985    Jenny's War            Receptionist            Miniseries

1985            Florence Nightingale            Mrs. Brent    TV movie

1990    Capital News   Andrea Schaffer            Episode: "Finished? Not Dunne"

1994    A Low Down Dirty Shame  Denise            Feature film

1995    Ice Cream Man            Wanda            Feature film

1999–2000, 2010–2011            The Bold and the Beautiful            Tawny Moore  March 1999–June 2000; December 2010–June 2011

2000–2008            Passions            Rebecca Hotchkiss            September 2000–August 2008

2010    The Young and the Restless            Tawny Moore  May 12, 2010 (1 episode)

2012    Hit List            Diane Murphy            Feature film

2012            Imaginary Friend            Angela            TV movie

2014            DeVanity         Vivian Price    Web series