She moved to New York after graduation in 1970 to pursue acting, landed a modeling job for Cadillac and appeared off-Broadway in Godspell before joining Grease. Her mother, Margaret, was a psychologist at Pasadena City College.īennett attended John Muir High School in Pasadena, and while majoring in drama at Northwestern University - where Shelley Long was a classmate - she was a homecoming queen, a Miss America contestant, a model in Life magazine and a performer in summer stock. She also wrote for NBC’s Generations from 1989-91 and NBC’s Sunset Beach from 1997-98 and won a pair of WGA awards during her career. again in 20 and The Bold and the Beautiful in 2003. in 1995 and was nominated for writing Y&R in 1986, G.H. She shared her Daytime Emmy for her work on G.H.

Still, she continued to show up as Julia on and off throughout the years, the last time in 2020.īennett wrote for NBC’s Santa Barbara from 1991-93 (and played author Megan Richardson) and wrote for ABC’s General Hospital from 1993-2011 (and portrayed the villainess Allegra Montenegro). “I’d been acting on the show for almost two years when this happened, so I knew the characters,” Bennett said in a 1985 interview. She joined CBS’ The Young and the Restless in 1980 as Julia Newman - wife of Eric Braeden’s Victor Newman - but as her character was being written off, she was asked by Y&R creator Bill Bell to stick around as a writer.

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