Guiding Light made its television debut on June 30th, 1952. The one and only Maeve Kinkead joined to look back at this historic show and her iconic role as Vanessa Chamberlin Reardon.

Maeve joined Guiding Light in June 1980 and graced the Springfield canvas for nearly 29 years. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1995 and won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 1992. In addition to her role as Vanessa, Maeve had a three-year stint as Angie Perrini on NBC’s Another World.

Maeve, the daughter of parents who worked for The New Yorker magazine, attended Radcliffe University where she majored in English, initially planning to pursue a career as an English teacher. While continuing her education at Harvard, she became involved with the Loeb Drama Center, sparking her career in acting. Maeve earned an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her writings have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry in Performance, and Seventeen Magazine. Her first poetry book, A Dangling House, was released in 2017. T

Don't miss this conversation for a special look back at Guiding Light with Emmy winner Maeve Kinkead!