Leslie Charleson
has died at the age of 79. She is best known as Monica Quartermaine in General Hospital. She had played in other soaps before General Hospital and had guest roles in various television series. General Hospital, which began in 1963, is one of the few soaps that has survived the changes in the entertainment industry. In 2025 it will have survived for 62 years.
Leslie Charleson was cast to play Monica Quartermaine in 1977 when she was 32. She was on General Hospital as Monica Quartermaine for until 2010. After 30 years on “General Hospital,” Charleson was taken off contract and reduced to recurring status in 2010, which her fans and fans of the show protested.
The character survived explosions, murder attempts, alcoholism, a car accident, multiple exposures to deadly toxins, stalking, a hostage crisis, and more. She also stirred up her fair share of scandal, committing adultery with her nephew Ned (Wally Kurth), strangling her husband Alan (Stuart Damon), and drugging Pierce Dorman (Tuc Watkins). She has also slapped half of the women of Port Charles.
The was also the breast cancer arc that lasted1994-2000.
Charleson was nominated for four Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, in 1980, 1982, 1983, and 1995.
Outside of General Hospital, Charleson also appeared on Dharma & Greg, Diagnosis: Murder, and in a 2004 episode of Friends, where she competed against Joey (Matt LeBlanc) on a game show. In 1993, she appeared in the made-for-TV movie Woman on the Ledge, costarring fellow soap stars Deidre Hall (Days of Our Lives) and Colleen Zenk (As the World Turns).
Leslie Charleson died January 12,2025 at the age of 79. She died from complications from a long illness that has not been revealed as of this writing.
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