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Emmy and OBIE Award-winning actress Peggy McCay is best known as the fiery, amber-eyed 'Caroline Brady' on NBC-TV's number one daytime drama "Days of Our Lives."
McCay has five Emmy nominations to the credit and holds the unique honor of being the only actor to receive two Emmy nominations in the same year (1987): in daytime, she was nominated for Lead Actress for her work on "Days of Our Lives" and in primetime for Best Guest Actress for her work on "Cagney and Lacey." McCay took home the statue in 1991 for her performance as a homeless woman on "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill."
McCay's other nominations include Lead Actress for "Days of Our Lives" (1986) and the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries category (1993) for her work as Tatum O'Neal's mother in "Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story." The latter also earned her a nomination from the Canadian Academy for a Gemini Award, a rare achievement for an American.
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The more than 1000 members of the Acting Branch of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences have acknowledged McCay's contributions to her profession by electing her as their Governor. She is a member of the Daytime Awards Committee and as such was instrumental in obtaining the 1995 Lifetime Achievement Emmy for Ted and Betty Corday, who are the creators and executive producers of "Days of Our Lives." Peggy is also a founding member of The New Image Committee, a bi-coastal organization designed to improve the daytime Emmy Awards show and the nomination process.
Peggy grew up in the Big Apple and spent her childhood playtime acting out scenarios that were constantly overflowing from her creative and active imagination. "I loved 'play acting' with all of my friends," McCay recalls. "I'd set up situations, paint a scenario and then we would all act them out, never knowing how our stories were going to end. Today it's called 'improv,' or better yet, interactive/CD ROM acting, but back then, it was just 'Cops 'N Robbers' and 'Knights in Armor.'"
By the time she entered high school, McCay landed roles on the stage performing in "Omnibus" and "Playhouse 90." After graduating from Barnard College of Columbia University, she immediately landed a role in a Kraft Theater show. She continued cultivating her talents touring as the youngest member of the Margo Jones Repertory Theater and received her training from such greats as Sanford Meisner, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg. |
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