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Eileen Herlie (born March 8, 1920 in Glasgow,
Scotland) is a Scottish-American actress.

Herlie was trained as a theatre actress, but her
first big film break was being cast by Laurence
Olivier in his 1947 film adaptation of William
Shakespeare's Hamlet. She played Gertrude
(Hamlet)|Gertrude.

After this film Herlie continued to make
sporadious film appearances, but remained
primarily in the threatre. In 1960 she was
nominated for a Tony Award as 'Best Actress in a
Musical' for Take Me Along, in which she played
opposite future All My Children co-star Ruth
Warrick.


In 1976, Herlie made the move to television soap
operas in the role of Myrtle on All My Children.
She has been a contract player on the soap ever
since. In the 1980s Herlie was nominated for three
consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards (1984, 1985 and
1986). She became close friends with fellow cast
member Louis Edmonds, and spoke at his funeral in
2001.

Until the late 1990s, Herlie was one of the few
actresses to ever play the same character on three
different soaps. In 1993 she played Myrtle on the
All My Children sister-soap Loving. In December
2000 she played Myrtle in crossover apearances on
the soap opera One Life to Live, where a 'Who's
the Daddy?' storyline was playing out on all four
ABC soaps (All My Children, One Life to Live,
General Hospital, and the now cancelled Port
Charles).


== Award Nominations ==
Daytime Emmy Awards
*(1986) Daytime Emmy Outstanding Supporting
Actress in a Drama Series for All My Children 
*(1985) Daytime Emmy Outstanding Actress in a
Supporting Role in a Daytime Drama Series for All
My Children 
*(1984) Daytime Emmy Outstanding Actress in a
Supporting Role in a Daytime Drama Series for All
My Children

Tony Awards
*(1960) Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical for
Take Me Along

==External Links==
http://www.cinemorgue.com/eileenherlie.html
screencap from hamlet
http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=67804 list of
broadway performances