《一生一世》明星艾伦·霍莉去世，享年92岁

Ellen Holly, the One Life to Live actress who broke ground as the first Black performer in a starring role on daytime television in the U.S., died in her sleep Wednesday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. She was 92.

《一生一世》女演员艾伦·霍莉周三在布朗克斯各各他医院的睡梦中去世。霍莉是美国首位在日间电视节目中担任主角的黑人演员。她享年92岁。

Her publicist, Cheryl L. Duncan, confirmed the news to EW.

她的公关Cheryl L. Duncan向《娱乐周刊》证实了这一消息。

Born in 1931 in New York City, Holly began her career as a member of the Actors Studio, appearing in Broadway productions of shows including A Hand Is on the Gate and Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright. During her time on stage, she worked alongside actors like James Earl Jones, Jack Lemmon, and Roscoe Lee Browne. Though she had small roles on TV series including The Nurses and Dr. Kildare, Holly struggled to find consistent work on screen early in her career.

霍莉1931年出生于纽约，作为演员工作室的一员开始了她的职业生涯，出演了百老汇的作品，包括《一只手在门上》和《老虎，老虎燃烧的光明》。在舞台上，她与詹姆斯·厄尔·琼斯、杰克·莱蒙和罗斯科·李·布朗等演员一起工作。虽然她在电视剧《护士》和《基尔代尔医生》中扮演过一些小角色，但在职业生涯的早期，霍莉很难在银幕上找到稳定的工作。

In 1968, The New York Times published a letter to the editor from Holly titled "How Black Do You Need To Be?" which criticized the media, the entertainment industry, and audiences for maintaining a narrow, stringent view of what Black performers should look like. Such thinking, Holly wrote, made it "virtually impossible" for light-skinned Black actors like her to find work.

1968年，《纽约时报》发表了霍莉写给编辑的一封题为《你需要多黑?》的信，批评媒体、娱乐行业和观众对黑人表演者应该是什么样子持狭隘、严格的看法。霍莉写道，这样的想法使得像她这样浅肤色的黑人演员“几乎不可能”找到工作。

The letter caught the attention of One Life to Live creator Agnes Nixon, who cast Holly on the show as Carla Gray, a light-skinned Black actress whose character was inspired by Holly's own experiences. Carla was first introduced as Carla Benari and presented as an Italian American woman; her heritage wasn't verified until five months after her introduction, when she revealed that her mother was Lillian Hayman's Sadie Grey.

这封信引起了该剧制片人艾格尼丝·尼克松的注意，她让霍莉在剧中饰演卡拉·格雷，一个浅肤色的黑人女演员，她的角色灵感来自于霍莉自己的经历。卡拉最初被介绍为卡拉·贝纳里，并以意大利裔美国女性的身份出现;她的血统直到五个月后才得到证实，当时她透露她的母亲是莉莲·海曼饰演的赛迪·格雷。

Before that revelation, Carla, who was engaged to white doctor Jim Craig, kissed Peter DeAnda’s Price Trainor, a Black character, which caused controversy among some viewers who were shocked to see a seemingly white woman kiss a Black man on screen. Later in the series, Carla married Al Freeman Jr.'s Ed Hall and adopted Laurence Fishburne's Joshua. Holly left the series in 1980 and returned in 1983, then left again in 1985. In her book One Life: The Autobiography of an African American Actress, Holly said she was fired from the show when she left the second time.

在此之前，与白人医生吉姆·克雷格订婚的卡拉曾亲吻过彼得·迪安达饰演的黑人普莱斯·特莱纳，这在一些观众中引起了争议，他们对在屏幕上看到一个看似白人的女人亲吻黑人男人感到震惊。在剧集后期，卡拉嫁给了小阿尔·弗里曼饰演的埃德·霍尔，并收养了劳伦斯·菲什伯恩饰演的约书亚。霍莉在1980年离开了这个系列，1983年回归，1985年再次离开。霍莉在她的书《一个人生:一个非裔美国女演员的自传》中说，她第二次离开剧组时被解雇了。

Holly reunited with Fishburne in her most prominent film role, in Spike Lee's 1988 musical dramedy School Daze. She then joined the soap Guiding Light as Judge Collier, appearing on the show from 1989 to 1993. Her last screen role came in the 2002 TV movie 10,000 Black Men Named George.

霍莉和菲什伯恩在1988年斯派克·李的音乐喜剧《校园迷惘》中出演了她最著名的电影角色。然后，她加入了肥皂剧《指路明灯》，扮演科利尔法官，从1989年到1993年一直出现在节目中。她的最后一个银幕角色是2002年的电视电影《一万名名叫乔治的黑人》。

In the 1990s, Holly became a librarian at a public library in White Plains, N.Y., the town she called home for many years. She also spent her final years preparing a documentary about her life and her prominent family, which included abolitionists, U.S. ambassadors, and pioneering Black women in such fields as medicine and education. She is survived by grandnieces, cousins, and other family members.

20世纪90年代，霍莉成为纽约州怀特普莱恩斯一家公共图书馆的图书管理员，她多年来一直把这个小镇称为家。她还在生命的最后几年准备了一部关于她的生活和她显赫的家庭的纪录片，其中包括废奴主义者，美国大使，以及在医学和教育等领域的先驱黑人妇女。她的孙女、表亲和其他家庭成员都活了下来。