Marla Adams, best known for playing Abbott family matriarch Dina Abbott Mergeron on The Young and the Restless for 37 years, has died. She was 85 years old.
The Emmy Award-winning TV actress died in Los Angeles on Thursday, according to what the British newspaper “Daily Mail” reported. Hollywood Reporter.
“We send our deepest condolences to Marla Adams' family,” the show's official X account (formerly Twitter) wrote on Friday. “We are so grateful for and in awe of Marla's incredible performance as Dina Abbott Mergeron as both Marla and Dina left an unforgettable mark on Y&R.”
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Before Adams – born in Ocean City, New Jersey, in 1938 – began her career in daytime television, she made her Broadway debut in 1958's “The Visit” and in 1961's “Splendor in the Grass” alongside Natalie Wood.
Marla Adams died in Los Angeles on April 25. (Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection)
It wasn't until 1968, when Adams made her official debut on daytime television as Belle Clemens on CBS' “The Secret Storm” and years later, in 1982, as Dina Abbott Mergeron on “The Young and the Restless.
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“I was a b—- during the day,” she said. Your daily Ocean City news source In 2016. “You played a good s—-.”
Adams played her “Young and the Restless” character on and off over the course of nearly four decades. After her three-year contract expired in 1985, the actress returned to Genoa City in 1991, 1996, 2008, and again from 2017 to 2020. Ultimately, her character — who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease — died in an October 2020 episode.
“Of all the characters I’ve played, from The Secret Storm to Broadway, this has been the most surprising and dazzling part I’ve ever had the honor of playing,” she said in a 2020 tribute to her character.
“I had the most amazing life, this little girl from Ocean City,” she said in a video. Interview 2016.
“Lifelong beer expert. General travel enthusiast. Social media buff. Zombie maven. Communicator.”