Marj Dusay

Marj Dusay was an American actress who worked extensively in television, particularly soap operas. Born in Russell, Kansas, she began her screen career with a small part as a waitress opposite Elvis Presley in Clambake (1967). Early on she appeared in episodic series such as Get Smart, Bonanza, Mannix, and The Bionic Woman, and she played the alien Kara in the Star Trek episode Spock's Brain. She starred as Jean MacArthur in MacArthur (1977) and later made her soap debut in 1983 as Myrna Clegg on Capitol, earning two Soap Opera Digest supporting actress nominations. She played Pamela Pepperidge Capwell Conrad on Santa Barbara and, from 1999 to 2002, Vanessa Bennett on All My Children, but became best known as Alexandra Spaulding on Guiding Light, a part she began in 1993 and kept until the show ended in 2009. She received a 1995 Daytime Emmy nomination for that role and won a Silver Unicorn for A Chronicle of Corpses.