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Sonya Eddy “passed distant past night,” Octavia Spencer posted connected Instagram connected Tuesday (Dec. 20) portion sharing a photograph of the 55-year-old General Hospital actress (h/t TMZ). “The satellite mislaid different originative angel. Her legions of @generalhospitalabc fans volition miss her. My thoughts and prayers are with her loved ones, friends, and fans!” Octavia didn’t explicate what led to Sonya’s death, and fans filled the comments conception with messages of grief and sorrow. HollywoodLife has reached retired to Ms. Eddy’s rep for information.
For implicit 540 episodes, Sonya portrayed caregiver Epiphany Johnson connected General Hospital, opening her tally successful 2006 and ending with her evident death. In summation to her clip connected GH, Eddy appeared successful Those Who Can’t, Fresh Off The Boat, and the 2013 series, Legit. Her IMDB illustration is affluent with roles successful everything from The Middle to Girl Meets World to her aboriginal roles successful High School High, Seinfeld, Home Improvement, and Blast From The Past.
Sonya successful March 2022 (MediaPunch/Shutterstock)“I was a science pupil astatine UC Davis,” Sonya said successful an interrogation with Charlene Bazarian, published connected The Awesome / Stone acold and the Jackal. “I spent a batch of clip successful the greenish country successful the theatre section observing people. I recovered these folks, who seemed to easy conscionable go idiosyncratic else, fascinating from a intelligence constituent of view. I took a History of Black Theatre course, and it progressive an oral presentation. My prof pulled maine speech and told maine that, with a dependable similar mine, I should beryllium connected stage. I laughed it off, arsenic I americium a precise shy person. Like everyone successful my family, I loved to sing successful my religion choir, but that was the grade of immoderate involvement I had successful putting myself retired there, truthful to speak.”
Sonya acted successful immoderate schoolhouse projects, but her involvement was inactive a spot tepid. “It wasn’t until Ruby Dee was a peculiar impermanent astatine the university, and I was 1 of the fewer students invited for a luncheon with her, that the thought of becoming an histrion started to instrumentality signifier for me,” continued Eddy. The multi-hyphenate, who originated the relation of Ruth Younger successful A Raising In The Sun, gave Sonya the proposal that would alteration her life. “She simply said, ‘I recognize wherefore you would person a hesitation astir becoming an actress, but not a batch of radical tin bash what you tin do. Don’t deliberation astir it, conscionable bash it.’ When idiosyncratic similar Ruby Dee speaks to you similar that, you listen.”
(Jordin Althaus/©FX Networks/courtesy Everett Collection)Sonya landed the portion connected General Hospital thanks to an anti-smoking PSA she did. “Jill Farren Phelps, an enforcement shaper connected General Hospital astatine that time, had seen it and showed it to Bob Guza, who was the caput writer then. Grey’s Anatomy was a large deed connected television, and they had wanted to exemplary the quality of Epiphany Johnson aft Chandra Wilson’s character. My cause said I booked the portion connected General Hospital without adjacent having auditioned. It was expected to beryllium a one-day booking, which turned into 2 weeks, which yet led to my being enactment connected contract.”
My guiding beacon successful beingness is, ‘There spell I earlier the grace of God,’” she added successful the interview. “I effort to enactment myself successful different people’s presumption earlier I snap, crackle, and pop, truthful to speak. I besides grew up successful a household that taught each of america that our connection was our bond. Whenever I travel to a situation oregon a crossroad successful life, I person recovered that these 2 principles transportation maine through.”
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