Alan Sawyer
Lee Lawson, an actress best known for nearly a decade of playing Bea Reardon on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light, has died. She was 80.
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It was her daughter, daughter, Leslie Bova, who shared the news on social media, alerting fans that her mother had passed.
“My Mother died. May 22, 2022.
Thank you for having Chris, Me & Gaby so that we could have Gianna, Wilder & Sterling. We love you. You fought Cancer & COVID-19 like a champ. Rest, you brilliant, woman 
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Thank you, mom. R.I.P.
*And thank you, Susan Gray, (Aunt Suzie), Nancy Georgini & Patrick Fredrickson.”
Lawson made her TV debut on the CBS show Love of Life in 1965 and then later appeared on ABC’s One Life to Live in 1979. It was her role as the aforementioned Bea Reardon — owner and operator of the “7th Street Boarding House” — on Guiding Light from 1981 to 1990 is the role she was best known for.
Her other credits came on Broadway, as she made her debut on stage in 1965 production of Cactus Flower. Lawson also appeared in Agatha Sue, I Love You and My Daughter, Your Son.
