Audrey Peters
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Audrey Peters (born February 11, year unknown, in Maplewood, New Jersey) is an American actress.
[edit] Career
Peters is best known for her 21 year run as Vanessa Dale Sterling on the CBS daytime soap opera Love of Life. Peters was the third actress to play the role (after daytime veteran Peggy McCay and actress Bonnie Bartlett), but she became the actress most identified with the role. Her run as Vanessa ended when the show was cancelled in 1980.
Seven years later, she was cast as Sarah Shayne, the mother of Reva Shayne, on another CBS soap, Guiding Light. Peters was on contract with the show for four years, and remained a recurring player for several years after. The show "killed off" the character of Sarah in 1997, but Peters has made several additional appearances.
Peters has made several other appearances on daytime television, including brief appearances on Search For Tomorrow, Loving, and All My Children. Early in her career, Peters was cast in several plays on the Broadway stage. [1]
[edit] Trivia
When Audrey first began as Van, she had no idea of the names of the characters that she would be interacting with, much less remembered their names; since she had just replaced Bonnie Bartlett, so she called everyone "dear".
After Audrey joined Guiding Light as Sarah Shayne, it was interesting to note that when she played Van on Love of Life, Van's mother was also named Sarah. (Sarah had been played by Jane Rose; Joanna Roos {who had played her mother in-law in the show's early years and was most identified in the role; and lastly by Valerie Cossart)
