Daytime Star Martha Byrne To Be Interviewed Live on Blogtalkradio

PR Log (Press Release) – May 07, 2009 – Join Jacqueline Foreman as she speaks to her good friend Martha Byrne, who played Lily Walsh Snyder for more than 20 years on the CBS Soap As The World Turns. The show will air live on May 25th at 8 PM EDT and listeners are encouraged to call in at
347-838-9159. The show can be listened to live or in archived format after it airs at www.blogtalkradio.com/yourmentalhealth

Change is good.  Especially for Martha Byrne who left her role as Lily on ATWT recently.   So what is Martha up to now? Plenty!  She currently serves as a script writer for the CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful and soon she will be joinning the cast of General Hospital.

Byrne began acting at a young age when she joined the cast of the Broadway musical Annie, where she played the role of July. She was a featured actor on a number of prime time episodic television programs, including Kate and Allie, Murder, She Wrote, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Jake and the Fatman, In the Heat of the Night, and Hearts are Wild. Byrne also appeared in several television movies, with featured roles in When the Cradle Falls, Pink Lightning, and the HBO movie Anna to the Infinite Power, where she played the title role. Byrne is best known for her role on the CBS Daytime soap opera As the World Turns, portraying Lily Walsh Snyder. She initially assumed the role from Lucy Deakins in May 1985 and played Lily until October 1989, when she left the show and Heather Rattray assumed the role of Lily. Byrne returned in April 1993. Byrne became part of a "supercouple" when then-Head Writer Douglas Marland paired Lily, a "poor little rich girl", with hard-luck farmhand Holden Snyder, played by Jon Hensley.

From 2000 until 2003, Byrne assumed a double role when she played Lily's long-lost twin, Rose D'Angelo who was created by Hogan Sheffer.  Soon after her departure from ATWT, Byrne was hired as a script writer by Bradley Bell for The Bold and the Beautiful in early 2009. Byrne is also a singer. She contributed a Christmas medley to the 1994 RCA release, A Soap Opera Christmas. She released her self-titled album Martha Byrne in 1996. In 2006, Byrne released another album entitled, "The Other Side."  We will be playing some of her music from this CD live on the air.