Soap opera star and screenwriter Meg Bennett has died
Bennett "lost her battle" with cancer on April 11, the family said in its obituary, first published in the Los Angeles Times.
Audiences knew Bennett as the striking brunette Julia Newman on CBS' long-running soap opera
She played Megan Richardson on "Santa Barbara" in the 1990s and Allegra Montenegro on "General Hospital" in 2005
Bennett received five Daytime Emmy nominations for writing. She was part of a "General Hospital" writing team that won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1995.
Bennett eventually got a break in show business when she landed an acting and singing role in the off-Broadway musical "Godspell."
In 1980, she returned to Los Angeles and joined the cast of "The Young and the Restless." She made a cameo appearance on that show in 2020.
It was on "General Hospital" that she met her husband, former head writer Robert Guza Jr. In addition to her husband, Bennett is survived by two stepdaughters
She appeared in "Grease" on Broadway and, in 1974, began her soap opera career as Liza on "Search for Tomorrow."
"Young & the Restless" and later, "The Bold and the Beautiful," "General Hospital," "Santa Barbara" and "Sunset Beach."