Elizabeth Hubbard

Elizabeth Hubbard (December 22, 1933 – April 8, 2023) was an American actress, recognized for her role as Althea Davis on the NBC daytime soap opera, The Doctors (1964–1978, 1981–1982), for which she received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1974, and as businesswoman Lucinda Walsh on the CBS soap opera, As the World Turns (1984–2010) for which she received eight Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Hubbard also starred in films such as I Never Sang for My Father (1970), The Bell Jar (1979), and Ordinary People (1980), and received another Emmy Award for playing former First Lady Edith Wilson in the television film First Ladies Diaries: Edith Wilson (1976). Early life and education Hubbard was born on December 22, 1933 in New York City, to Elizabeth Wright Hubbard and Benjamin Alldritt Hubbard. Her mother, a physician, was a pioneer in homeopathy and one of the first women to earn a medical degree from Columbia University. She had two brothers, Theodore and Merle, an opera talent manager. Hubbard attended Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and graduated summa cum laude in 1955. She pursued her theatrical education at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, where she was the first American to receive the school's silver medal. She graduated from RADA in 1957. Acting career