Eileen Fulton is best known for being the first “Bad Girl” on television, when she created the role of Lisa Miller on the CBS Soap Opera “As The World Turns” in 1960. Her character was just scandalous enough to attract huge audiences that loved to hate her. Her popularity so high CBS produced one of television’s first “primetime soaps” for her when they created the spin-off series, “Our Private World”, for nighttime audiences in 1965.

However, it was on stage in the first Broadway production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” where Eileen honed her skills after graduating from the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse. The rigors of both, she says, were perfect training for the rigors of performing – live – in a daytime soap opera.

At one point, Fulton worked mornings at As The World Turns, afternoons in matinee presentations of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on Broadway, and evenings in the Off Broadway musical "The Fantasticks". At the same time, Warner Brothers tapped her for the lead in the motion picture, “Girl Of The Night”. Her additional theater credits include Off Broadway productions of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" with Hal Holbrook, "Many Loves", "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll", and "Nite Club Confidential", in which she played Kay. She has also appeared in regional theater productions such as "Plaza Suite", "It Had To Be You" by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna, "The Owl and the Pussycat", "Goodbye, Charlie" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

In addition to her work on television and on the stage, Eileen is a prolific writer who has co-authored two autobiographies, "How My World Turns" and "As My World Still Turns”, a novel, “Soap Opera” and written six murder mysteries, "Take One for Murder", "Death of a Golden Girl", "Dying for Stardom", "Lights, Camera, Death", "A Setting for Murder" and "Fatal Flashback".

In 1991, her work was recognized with Soap Opera Digest's Editor's Award. Eileen was also named Best Actress in 1970 by Daytime TV Magazine's reader’s poll, and she remained in the top ten in this category for 58 of the first 80 issues, which were printed between 1970 and 1977. Fulton was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame on September 14, 1998 . The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented the “Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award” to Eileen during the 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 2003.

Eileen is a critically acclaimed cabaret performer and has performed in top venues throughout the country, including the Iridium Jazz Club in New York.

She recently added “Indie film actress” to her resume and has appeared in five independent films including the upcoming, “Signs of the Cross”. She was honored at the "Salute to Independent Filmmakers and Awards Ceremony Gala' by being the recipient of the 'Achievement in Television and Film Award' because of her success in the entertainment field, for the work she has created in both film and television and for her support of independent films.

Fulton, the daughter of a Methodist minister and a descendant of a long line of clergymen, was born in Asheville, North Carolina on September 13, 1933 as Margaret Elizabeth McLarty. She majored in music and minored in dramatics at Greensboro College in North Carolina and made her professional debut in "The Lost Colony", an annual drama presentation in Manteo , N.C. In 1956, she moved to New York City to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater.

She has been an active supporter of such charities as UNICEF, the March of Dimes, Cerebral Palsy, the Lupus Foundation, and Martha's Table, an organization in Washington DC that benefits poor and homeless mothers and children. She has established a musical scholarship in her late father's name at Brevard College in North Carolina and a Fine Arts scholarship in her name and her mother's at their alma mater, Greensboro College.

This past June, Greensboro College awarded her an honorary doctorate when she spoke at the 2005 commencement. She now, with tongue in cheek, refers to herself as "Doctor Fulton".