Lanna Saunders
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Svetlana "Lanna" Saunders (December 22, 1941 – March 10, 2007) was an American actress, best known for her role as Marie Horton on the television soap opera Days of Our Lives, on which she appeared from 1979Template:Ndash85. She also played the characters Betty Andrews on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless and Julie Evans on the NBC soap opera The Doctors in 1968.
Early years
Saunders was born on December 22, 1941, in New York City.[1] Saunders's father was actor Nicholas Saunders (Template:Ne Nikita Nikolayevich Soussanin)[2] and her grandfather was actor Nicholas Soussanin, who emigrated from the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s.[3]
Career
Saunders started in acting at age 13, studying under Elia Kazan and later joining his Lincoln Center Company.[4][5] Her credits on Broadway included Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1966), The Changeling (1964), Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory (1964), Milk and Honey (1961), and Sunrise at Campobello (1958).[1]
Personal life and death
Saunders was married to Andre Yedigaroff.[2] She met her future husband, actor Lawrence Pressman, when she was a student of Kazan, and they were married until her death. Actor David Pressman is their son.[6]
Saunders was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1982 and she left Days of our Lives three years later when she became too ill to continue in the role. She died on March 10, 2007.[6]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Deadline | Holly Webster | episode: "Character Witness" |
| 1968 | The Doctors | Julie Evans | 3 episodes; uncredited |
| 1972 | McCloud | Stewardess | episode: "The Barefoot Stewardess Caper" |
| 1974 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Nurse McCarthy | episode: "Child of Silence" |
| 1975 | The Waltons | Rebecca Cook | episode: "The Matchmakers" |
| 1976 | Everybody Rides the Carousel | Stage 7 | Voice role |
| 1977−78 | Barnaby Jones | Paula Dixon; Sandy Wright | episodes: "Yesterday's Terror" & "Nest of Scorpions" |
| 1978 | The Six Million Dollar Man | Vera Cheraskin | episode: "Walk a Deadly Wing" |
| 1978 | Ruby and Oswald | Marina Oswald | Television film |
| 1978 | A Family Upside Down | Mrs. Lovell | Television film |
| 1978 | Fantasy Island | Joyce Stanton | episode: "Charlie's Cherubs" |
| 1979−85 | Days of Our Lives | Marie Horton | 557 episodes |
| 1981 | Body Heat | Roz Kraft | |
| 1983 | Hart to Hart | Monica Haines | episode: "As the Hart Turns" |
References
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- 1941 births
- 2007 deaths
- American soap opera actresses
- Actresses from New York City
- American people of Russian descent
- American stage actresses
- American child actresses
- Soussanin family
- Neurological disease deaths in California
- Deaths from multiple sclerosis
- People with multiple sclerosis
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American women