Peggy McCay

Peggy McCay was an American actress born in Manhattan in 1927. After graduating from Barnard College in 1949, she began her career with Margo Jones's Texas theater company and studied under Lee Strasberg in New York. She won an Obie Award for her portrayal of Sonya in a 1956 off-Broadway production of Uncle Vanya and later appeared in the film version. Her first major role was Vanessa Dale in Love of Life, a soap opera she played from 1951 to 1955. She worked extensively in television, including a lead role in the 1962 series Room for One More and the film Lad, A Dog (1962), and later played Iris Fairchild on General Hospital. In 1991 she received a Primetime Emmy for her guest work on The Trials of Rosie O'Neill. From 1983 to 2016 she was known as Caroline Brady on Days of Our Lives, and she appeared in the film Bustin' Loose (1981).