Susan Walters won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her role as Diane Jenkins Abbott on The Young and the Restless!
This was Walters first nomination and first win.
She got her start in soap operas on ABC’s Loving, which premiered in 1983, where she portrayed Lorna Forbes Conway until late 1986.
After leaving Loving, Walters appeared in multiple Aaron Spelling productions, including Melrose Place. And, like many soap stars of that era, appeared on the long-running Murder She Wrote.
She took over the role of Diane Jenkins on The Young and the Restless in 2001 and portrayed the character through 2004.
After that stint in daytime she appeared on such primetime soaps as One Tree Hill, The Vampire Diaries, Teen Wolf, Star-Crossed and an episode of How to Get Away with Murder.
She returned to The Young and the Restless and Diane Jenkins in 2022 and quickly went toe-to-toe with Y&R heavyweights Eric Braeden (Victor Newman), Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman), Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott) and Eileen Davidson (Ashley Abbott).
Diane returned to Genoa City to reunite with her son Kyle Abbott and her scenes opposite Michael Mealor and Peter Bergman gave her meaty material to submit for this year’s Daytime Emmy consideration.
She is married to Linden Ashby, who also received a Daytime Emmy nomination this year for Outstanding Guest Actor. He lost out to General Hospital’s Alley Mills.
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