Peggy McCay Movies and Career Information

Peggy McCay (born November 3, 1931, New York City) is a long-time American actress with a fifty year plus career in film and television. Although she has acted in numerous productions, she best known for playing Caroline Brady, a role she originated in 1983 on the long-running NBC drama Days of our Lives. McCay graduated from Barnard College before accepting her first major role as the heroine Vanessa Dale on the soap opera Love of Life. The show premiered in 1951 and made McCay an overnight star. After four years of working five days a week on the series, she left in 1955 to pursue other options. She played in four feature films in the late 1950s before landing a lead role in 1962 in the 26-episode sitcom Room for One More with Andrew Duggan, Ronnie Dapo, Tim Rooney, and Jack Albertson. She portrayed Anna Perrott Rose, who originally wrote a memoir on her family life. In the same year, she also starred in the feature film Lad, A Dog. She guest starred in various programs too, including Jack Palance's circus drama, The Greatest Show on Earth, and Jason Evers's drama series about college life, Channing, both on ABC (1963–1964). McCay returned to daytime television in 1964 as one of