Soap opera veteran Denise Alexander, best known for her starring roles on long-running sudsers General Hospital and Days of Our Lives, has died at the age of 85. A mainstay in the soap world in the ’60s and ’70s,

Soap opera star Denise Alexander, known as Lesley Webber on "General Hospital" and Susan Hunter Martin on "Days of Our Lives," has died. She was 85.

She played Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy’s daughter on the radio and Susan Martin on ‘Days of Our Lives’ before spending a quarter-century in Port Charles.