All My Children Star Jeffrey Carlson Dead at 48


The performing world is mourning a tragic lack of a TV trailblazer.

All My Kids alum Jeffrey Carlson, who performed one of many first transgender characters on daytime tv, has died, based on a number of studies. He was 48.

The cleaning soap star’s loss of life was first introduced publicly by Time Out New York theater editor Adam Feldman. “RIP Jeffrey Carlson, 48, exposed-nerve star of Broadway (Billy in The Goat, Marilyn in Taboo) and TV (the groundbreaking trans character Zoe on All My Kids),” he tweeted July 8. “A strong actor and a painful loss.”

Carlson, a local of Lengthy Seaside, Calif., was a graduate of College of California Davis who additionally studied at New York Metropolis’s Juilliard College. He started his performing profession onstage, making his Broadway debut within the 2002 play The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?.

In 2003, whereas persevering with his theater profession in New York Metropolis, Carlson made his onscreen debut with a small position within the indie movie Joyful Finish. He later appeared on Legislation & Order: Particular Victims Unit and the film Hitch earlier than he landed his breakout performing position on All My Kids.