Marnie Schulenburg, ‘As the World Turns’ & ‘One Life to Live’ Soap Star, Dies at 37

Why do people keep dying?

I didn't enjoy her as Alison, but I never wanted her to die over it! Seriously though, this is very surprising and sad news.

Sad.

How awful.

From Wikipedia:

“In May 2020, Schulenburg revealed that she had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer which doctors mistook for a mastitis diagnosis that is common to new mothers. She described her cancer as the "most insidious kind, inflammatory breast cancer which doesn’t look like typical breast cancer, more aggressive, affects younger women, and disguises itself as a breastfeeding infection." "How does one celebrate a birthday after a stage four breast cancer diagnosis in the middle of a global pandemic while raising a 5 month old?", she wrote in an Instagram post. Her friends and family members set up a GoFundMe page for her medical expenses and the goal of $75,000 was raised in October 2020. On May 17, 2022, she died from the disease at a hospital in Bloomfield, New Jersey, four days before her 38th birthday.”

Very, very sad. My condolences to her family.

I'm afraid I hadn't heard of her before, but I knew her husband's name sounded familiar. He played Godzilla from that episode of 30 Rock that ends with him giving a monologue mirroring Liz's life over the closing credits ("I should have moved to Cleveland with that guy when I had the chance!"). I looked him up a while back after watching that episode numerous times but wasn't able to find out much about him. (I see he's on Succession now, but this was before that.) Hate that this is the way to have his name come up again.

So sad for her family, especially their daughter. I know it's probably a cliche at this point, but fuck cancer. Just awful.

She seems familiar but can't recall anything about her. Did her character Alison interact with Nuke in ATWT?

Her character seemed to have a magic cookie because all of the younger (straight) men chased her. It was something of a joke in the fandom. She was a very good actress and I liked that she was attractive but also approachable.

R7, iirc she was friends with Luke and was probably his talk-to from time to time. Also maybe she was Noah’s girlfriend before he came out?

I also wasn't a fan of Allison during her tenure, but it was more the way the character was written; she did the best she could given the material. Very sad.

Has Miss Hansis commented yet?

r10, I checked the Twitter and Instagram accounts of Van Hansis, Billy Magnussen, and Eric William Morris (who had the recurring role of Casey's ex-cellmate Matt O'Connor, an occasional love interest for Allison), and nada from any of them so far.

Has Chris Goutman commented yet?

R11 It's been around 12 years since they've worked together. Probably not even friends outside of work anyways.

Van Hansis OWES us a statement.

Alison...let's see...she was Emily's sister AND her daughter, darlings.

Damn. How sad.

She was a very natural actress, no affectations. I hate that this happened to her.

Very disappointed that Van Hansis couldn’t take the time out of his busy (!) schedule to post a comment.

R7 Yes. Alison was a big Nuke supporter. She was upset when she learned from Noah that he and Luke had broken up over sloppy-drunk Luke kissing his step-pee paw, Brian, with Noah witnessing it and punching Brian's lights out .. lol. .. Alison got Casey (aka Butters) to help her in her plan to get them back together by locking Noah and Luke on the roof so they'd be forced to talk.

R8 Noah's girlfriend before he came out was Maddie (Alexandra Chando), not Alison.

R19 Thanks. I remember Maddie and Butters (who knew he would be the one to be most successful?), but still barely have any impression of Alison though the storyline you described does ring a bell... Lucinda brought Brian to town and turned out he was more interested into twinky Luke.

I read about this a few days ago. So very heartbreaking.

Where the hell is Miss Van Hansis’ statement about Marnie’s passing?????

Has Margaret McLarty issued a statement?

I went to college with her and her husband. Gorgeous and sweet- a wonderful down to earth person. I had no idea she was sick and hearing of her death a few days ago was very upsetting.

That last post and photos that she put up on Instagram on Mother's Day is sad. RIP.

Marnie was a great actress on ATWT & I enjoyed her real life interviews.

She could've been a Disney princess in a feature film or a super hero in some DC Supergirl or Marvel mutant film.

Just think that some of her family & friends might have return her birthday gifts now. How awful.

That’s very sad, R26. She was indeed a charming actress and seemed like a sweet person. So sad.

Here she is on a ATWT reunion show with "Nuke" among others on 4-17-20 =

Here is another appearance of Marnie on that website on 5-5-21 =

Wow. She was adorable.

She looks so different from R26 to the OP's recent pic of her.

It's hard to believe it's the same person in both.

R11 I noticed on the GoFundMe page that Billy Magnussen was one of the two top donors, so it's not like he's forgotten about his frequent screen partner.

Has Miss Hansis finally commented????

R33 Is it appropriate to call someone over 40 "Miss"?

Of course it is, r34!

PUT A RING ON IT, TYLER!

R36 Are they still together? After so many years, what's the point?

I love R35.

R37 Appears so.

More proof for R34 =

R39 Close to twenty years together by now... they belong on the cover of Gay Illustrated.

Don’t Van and Ty have an open relationship?