‘General Hospital’s Joan Benedict Steiger died at 96.
Actress Joan Benedict Steiger died of stroke complications on June 24, Deadline reports. She was 96.
According to the outlet, the news of her passing, which took place at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, was shared by a family spokesperson.
The late actress was born in Brooklyn on July 21, 1927, per Deadline. Speaking with Media Mikes in 2011, Benedict highlighted that show business “was all [she] ever wanted to do since [she] was 7 years old,” and noted how she started dancing prior to finding work in acting.
“I started out dancing and singing around that age which soon led into acting a short time later,” she shared at the time. “It’s really hard to explain as I had of course seen movies and such before but I think even before that I knew I wanted to act. I guess it’s what I was born to do. Even though I was a shy girl I loved to show off.”
Early TV credits hers include Candid Camera and The Steve Allen Show, per The Hollywood Reporter. According to the outlet, she also found work on the game show Masquerade Party, and would go on to appear in the following soap operas: Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and Capitol.
