‘All My Children’ Actor Was 51

Esta TerBlanche, greatest identified for her function as Gillian Andrassy on “All My Kids,” has died. She was 51.

TerBlanche died on Thursday at her house, in keeping with the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner. Her reason behind loss of life is below investigation.

Her expertise supervisor, Annie Spolianky, additionally confirmed the information to Selection, saying that TerBlanche was a “fantastic, sort and loving particular person.”

TerBlanche performed Gillian, a hard Hungarian princess, on “All My Kids” from 1997 to 2001. Her character was married to Ryan Lavery (Cameron Mathison), who eliminated her from life help after she was shot by an murderer in a case of mistaken identification. TerBlanche returned as Gillian’s ghost for one episode in 2011, because the cleaning soap opera wrapped up its four-decade run on ABC.

“Once I got here again, it was actually emotional for me and Cameron. After we noticed one another, we each began bawling,” TerBlanche informed Cleaning soap Opera Digest in an interview printed on July 13. “Again then, we hadn’t seen one another for years, so it was such a touching second for us.”

TerBlanche was born on Jan. 7, 1973, in Rustenberg, a metropolis within the North West province of South Africa. She was topped Miss Teen South Africa in 1991.

Early in her profession as an actor, TerBlanche was solid as Beatrice “Bienkie” Naudé Hartman on “Egoli: Place of Gold,” the primary South African cleaning soap opera, which she appeared in from 1992 to 1995. She ultimately moved to the U.S. and labored on “All My Kids.”

After the loss of life of her character on “All My Kids” in 2001, TerBlanche returned to South Africa, the place she opened a spa and labored on documentaries with filmmaker Michael Kastenbaum, Cleaning soap Opera Digest reported. On the time of TerBlanche’s passing, she had been splitting her time between South Africa and California.