Fulton moved to New York in 1956 and took classes with the legendary acting teachers Sanford Meisner and Lee Strasberg. She adopted Eileen Fulton as a stage name and worked modeling gigs to support herself before appearing in the 1960 film Girl of the Night.

Eileen Fulton, a daytime television star who helped define the soap opera "As the World Turns," has died. She was 91. Fulton, who pulled off the rare feat of remaining on the same soap for half a century,

Eileen Fulton, who spent nearly 50 years portraying Lisa Miller on the once-popular soap opera “As the World Turns,” has died at the age of 91, reports say. An obituary posted online says Fulton died on July 14 in Asheville, North Carolina, after a “period of declining health.”