Marcy Walker

Actress

Birthday November 26, 1961

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Paducah, Kentucky, U.S.

Age 62 years old

Nationality United States

Height 173 cm

#38399 Most Popular

1961

Marcy Lynn Walker (born November 26, 1961), also known as Marcy Smith, is an American youth minister and former actress known for her television appearances on daytime soap operas.

1975

She lived in Lancaster, California from 1975 to 1978 and attended Antelope Valley High School there.

1979

After her junior year, she moved to Troy, Illinois and attended Triad High School where she was active in the drama club and graduated from there in 1979.

Marcy has one son, Taylor, from her third husband, Stephan Collins.

1980

She was briefly engaged to actor Bronson Pinchot during the mid-1980s.

1981

Her most famous roles are those of Liza Colby on All My Children, which she played from 1981 to 1984 and 1995 to 2005, and as Eden Capwell on Santa Barbara from 1984 to 1991.

Walker was born in Paducah, Kentucky and traveled the world during her youth.

In 1981, Walker was cast in her first acting job on a daytime serial as Liza Colby on the ABC Television soap opera, All My Children.

1983

(She had turned down an offer to join the cast of As the World Turns. ) She was honored with two Outstanding Supporting Actress Daytime Emmy nominations in 1983 and 1984.

After a successful three-year run, she decided to leave the show for other opportunities.

She was replaced promptly with actress Alice Haining, as Liza Colby on the show.

1984

In 1984, Walker created another popular soap opera role in the form of Eden Capwell on Santa Barbara.

Her character, partnered with A Martinez's character, Cruz Castillo, became one of the period's most popular supercouples.

For this role, Walker received three more Daytime Emmy nominations, this time in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress.

1985

From 1985 to 1987, she was married to actor Billy Warlock.

1989

She won the award in 1989 for an emotional storyline in which her character was brutally beaten and raped.

1991

She left the show in 1991.

1993

In 1993, she started playing the role of Tangie Hill on Guiding Light.

While the role was created specifically for Walker, the character didn't catch on with the audience and Walker declined to renew her contract.

1995

Walker left the show in mid-1995 before making a long-awaited comeback appearance as Liza Colby on All My Children in September of that year.

1999

In 1999, she married Doug Smith and goes by the name Marcy Smith in her private life.

At one point, she was romantically involved with former All My Children costar Michael E. Knight, who played Tad Martin on the show.

2001

In 2001, she was nominated for another Outstanding Lead Actress Daytime Emmy award.

2004

On August 5, 2004, The Wilton Bulletin, a Connecticut newspaper, reported Walker's intention to become a full-time children's ministry director at Hope Church in Wilton, Connecticut upon the expiration of her ABC Television contract the following September.

The actress had been interviewed for the article on July 20, 2004.

On August 20, 2004, Dan J Kroll of soapcentral.com reported that Walker's All My Children contract had not been renewed.

Her farewell appearance on All My Children aired on September 28, 2004.

The exit of Liza Colby occurred amid rumor that Walker would return to the show on a recurring basis.

This rumor was fueled by the fact that her exit was very open-ended.

She was not killed off, like some notable fan favorites like Jesse Hubbard, played by Darnell Williams, but rather assumed a new identity.

Her character simply decided to take her daughter to live out of reach from her controlling ex-husband Adam Chandler, played by David Canary.

According to Soap Opera Digest magazine, Walker was at first hesitant to go on a recurring basis, but later warmed to the idea.

In December 2004, the writers created a scene where Liza appeared making a phone call.

2005

Walker appeared again in January 2005, when her character assisted Babe Carey Chandler and Jamie Martin, in their attempt to flee from Adam's wrath.

The characters of Babe and Jamie were played by Alexa Havins and Justin Bruening.

Former head writer Megan McTavish spoke to the soap media and publicly thanked Walker for working without a contract, but also hinted that she did not intend for Liza to return to the show any time soon.

2009

However, in 2009, the character of Liza returned, albeit played this time by actress Jamie Luner.

After Walker left All My Children, she decided to accept a position in Christian ministry based in Huntersville, North Carolina.

In addition to her work with daytime soap operas, Walker has starred in several movies of the week, including The Return of Desperado, Bar Girls, Midnight's Child, and Terror In the Shadows.

2017

Walker did not participate in the All My Children reunion that was featured on the February 2, 2017 edition of the Hallmark Channel's Home & Family show.