Alice Haining

Alice Haining (born October 8, 1957) is an American actress.

Early years

Born in Jackson, Mississippi,{{Citation needed |date=December 2021}} Haining is the daughter of Dr. Joe L. Haining and Jean Haining. Her father was a research chemist, and her mother was a teacher. Haining was valedictorian of her class at Woodland Hills Academy and at Mississippi College. She graduated from the latter in 1981 with majors in English and modern languages.{{cite news |title=Haining |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90322341/alice-haining/ |access-date=December 10, 2021 |work=The Clarion-Ledger |date=October 26, 1994 |location=Mississippi, Jackson |page=2 D|via = Newspapers.com}}

Career

Before she became active on stage in New York City, Haining produced Figure Out, a children's program, for Mississippi Educational Television.

Haining's career was largely in daytime soaps, beginning in 1982 when she played Jodie Fields on Search for Tomorrow. She then went on to play the role of Liza Colby on All My Children in 1984, replacing Marcy Walker who had left the show. She also portrayed the role of Cecilia Thompson Sowolosky on Loving from 1985 to 1986. Haining is perhaps best known for playing Angel Lange Snyder on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, where she was on from 1988 to 1994.

Haining portrayed Marcia Giles{{cite web |title=Alice Haining |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/alice-haining-72476 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211210020205/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/alice-haining-72476 |archive-date=December 10, 2021}} in a 1991 Circle in the Square Theatre production of the play On Borrowed Time, written by Paul Osborn.{{cite web |title=Actresses (L-R) Alice Haining and Teresa Wright in a scene from the Circle in the Square production of the play "On Borrowed Time." (New York) |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b8786940-c415-0132-10cb-58d385a7bbd0 |website=The New York Public Library Digital Collections |access-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210010342/https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b8786940-c415-0132-10cb-58d385a7bbd0 |archive-date=December 10, 2021}} On film, she acted in A Shock to the System (1990) and Top of the World (1994).{{cite web |title=Alice Haining |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/alice-haining-p29640 |website=AllMovie |access-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211210015549/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/alice-haining-p29640 |archive-date=December 10, 2021}} Her off-Broadway credits include playing Helen in Emerald City (1988), Beth in Swim Visit (1990), Armande in The Learned Ladies (1991), and Tood in The Cover of Life (1994).{{cite web |title=Alice Haining |url=http://www.iobdb.com/CreditableEntity/6799 |website=Internet Off-Broadway Database |publisher=Lucille Lortel Foundation |access-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210020627/http://www.iobdb.com/CreditableEntity/6799 |archive-date=December 10, 2021}}

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable" \|+Film and television
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1982 \|Search for Tomorrow \|Jodie Fields \|TV series
1984–85 \|All My Children \|Liza Colby \|Regular role
1985 \|Spenser: For Hire \|Kay Redfield \|"Autumn Thieves"
1985–86 \|Loving \|Cecilia Thompson Sowolsky \|TV series
1986 \|Ike \| \|TV film
1987 \|Spenser: For Hire \|Linda Arpel \|"Trial and Error"
1986 \|One Life to Live \|Susan Bates \|TV series
1988–1994 \|As the World Turns \|Angel Lange Snyder \|TV series
1989 \|American Playhouse \|Holly \|"Ask Me Again"
1990 \|{{sortname\|A\|Shock to the System\|A Shock to the System (1990 film)}} \|Benham's Secretary \|
1993 \|Top of the World \|Megan \|
1996 \|Swift Justice \|Janet Maxey \|"Supernote"

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|+Film and television

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1982

|Search for Tomorrow

|Jodie Fields

|TV series

1984–85

|All My Children