Marnie Schulenburg, a cleaning soap opera actress who documented her journey from turning into a brand new mom to a most cancers affected person, has died after battling stage 4 metastatic breast most cancers, in accordance with her consultant.
She was 37.
Schulenburg, who performed Alison Stewart on "Because the World Turns" and Jo Sullivan on the "One Life to Stay" reboot, died Tuesday, her manger Kyle Luker advised CNN.
Schulenburg and her husband, "Succession" actor Zack Robidas, welcomed their daughter, Coda, two years in the past.
In December 2020, Schulenburg wrote about her prognosis for the Soaps web site.
"On the eve of my thirty sixth birthday, as a substitute of trying to find a spot to drink a number of Bloody Marys (my birthdays at all times contain Bloody Marys, boats and lobster, not in any explicit order), I used to be repeating the identical query again and again in my head: "How does one have a good time a birthday with a brand new child in the midst of a worldwide pandemic whereas coming to phrases with a Stage IV, metastatic, borderline triple adverse inflammatory breast most cancers prognosis?'" she wrote.
A former gymnast, she grew up in Barnstable, Massachusetts and advised The Morning Name in 2012 that her plans to attend faculty in Boston had been derailed after her older brother Gus, a broadcast playwright, took her to his alma mater, DeSales College the place she fell in love with the campus.
She additionally discovered one other sort of affection on the faculty, assembly Robidas there when she served as his campus information.
She acted whereas at school and snagged the position on "Because the World Turns" the 12 months she graduated in 2006.
She went on to seem on the net reboot of "One Life to Life" in 2013.
Schulenburg, who would have celebrated her thirty eighth birthday on Saturday, additionally carried out off Broadway and appeared in tv collection, together with "Blue Bloods" and most just lately Showtime's "Metropolis on a Hill,"
She shared her battle with most cancers on social media, writing on a Mom's Day submit on her verified Instagram account earlier this month that she had been despatched residence from the hospital on oxygen.
"It is not my excellent to be a 38 12 months previous Mother who wants an oxygen tank to outlive proper now. I need to be sturdy and delightful for her," she wrote within the caption on a collection of photographs which featured her daughter and her personal mom, Candace. "I need to present her find out how to transfer all through this world with compassion, power, vivacity, humor and pleasure like my Mom confirmed me."
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