Lee Lawson, 'Guiding Light' actress, dead at 80
foxnews.comLee Lawson, best known for her long-running role as Bea Reardon on the soap opera "The Guiding Light," died on May 22 at the age of 80.
Lawson played Reardon on the CBS soap from 1981 to 1990.The show ended in 2009. Her daughter, Leslie Bova, shared the news in a Facebook post that revealed her mother had cancer and COVID-19 before her death. "Rest, you brilliant woman," Bova wrote Tuesday. "Thank you, mom.
R.I.P." Lee Lawson as Bea Reardon on "Guiding Light." (CBS/YouTube) Lawson was born Oct. 14, 1941, in New York City, and made her debut on the CBS soap "Love of Life" in 1965.
She also appeared in ABC’s "One Life to Live" in 1979 (as Wanda Webb Wolek) before beginning her role on "The Guiding Light" as the owner and operator of a 7th Street boarding house (and a single mother of seven).
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