Alice Hirson, Soap Opera Vet and Mom to Ellen, Dead at 95


Alice Hirson, Soap Opera Vet and Mom to Ellen, Dead at 95

Published 20 Feb 2025 Alice Hirson, a veteran character actress whose TV credits included more than a half dozen daytime and primetime soaps, and who played mom to Ellen on the 1990s ABC sitcom, died Feb. 14 of natural causes, her son David told THR.com. Hirson was 95. After beginning her acting career in the 1950s with appearances on a few anthology series, Hirson joined ABC’s daytime serial The Edge of Night in the series regular role of the vengeful and sometimes murderous Stephanie Martin. She went on to play Marcia Davis in both NBC’s Another World and its offshoot Somerset, and in the early 1970s played Joe Riley’s big sister, Eileen, on ABC’s One Life to Live.