Marnie Schulenburg in 2012. Her symptoms were initially mistaken for another diagnosis common to new mothers.Taylor Hill | Getty Images
“As the World Turns” star Marnie Schulenburg died of breast cancer Tuesday in New Jersey, Deadline reports.
The actor was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for her performance as Alison Stewart, a character she played on the CBS soap opera from 2007 to 2010.
Schulenburg, who would have turned 38 on May 21, died in Bloomfield.
The actor, born on Cape Cod, was diagnosed with stage 3 metastatic breast cancer in May 2020, just months after giving birth to her daughter, Coda. Initially, doctors believed she had mastitis, a condition common among breastfeeding mothers.
“I have a 6-month-old and I need to be here for her,” Schulenburg told Soap Opera Digest in 2020. “Nothing good comes from being negative. I truly think the cancer feeds off that negative energy, so I’m staying positive. I’m not necessarily an incredibly religious person. It’s not something that’s been a part of my life up until now, but I’m much more spiritual. I have faith. I have much more faith in myself than I realized.”
She was in and out of the hospital in recent weeks.
“It’s not my ideal to be a 38 year old Mom who needs an oxygen tank to survive right now,” Schulenburg said in an Instagram post for Mother’s Day, showing family photos taken at Brookdale Park. “I want to be strong and beautiful for her. I want to show her how to move throughout this world with compassion, strength, vivacity, humor and joy like my Mother showed me.”
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In 2010, Schulenburg was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for outstanding younger actress in a drama series for “As the World Turns,” which went off the air that season after 54 years.
Her more recent roles included Maggie Caysen in the Showtime series “City on a Hill” and Peyton Adams in the YouTube and Amazon series “Tainted Dreams,” a show about the cast of a soap opera. In 2013, she played Jo Sullivan on Hulu’s “One Life to Live.” She also had guest roles in series like “The Good Fight,” “Divorce” and Elementary.
Schulenburg is survived by her daughter and her husband of eight years, “Succession” actor Zack Robidas.
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