CAUSE OF DEATH: Actress, Andrea Evans, has passed away after battle with breast cancer

CAUSE OF DEATH: Actress, Andrea Evans, has passed away after battle with breast cancer.

Actor Andrea Evans, who starred on “One Life to Live,” “The Bold and the Beautiful” and other soap operas throughout her television career, has died. She was 66. 

A rep for the actor confirmed in a statement sent to TODAY.com that Evans died on July 9 from cancer. 

Evans returned to One Life to Live in 1985. The series reached new heights and she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Ingenue, but she abruptly left the series again in 1987 after an encounter with a stalker in the lobby of the show’s Manhattan studio. Recounting the incident to PEOPLE years later, Evans said that the fear “forever changed me. There’s no way it could not.”

Evans started her decades-long soap opera career on “One Life to Live” in 1979. She appeared on the program until 1981, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and again from 1985-1990. She returned to the soap opera intermittently throughout her career.

She also had starring roles on “The Bold and the Beautiful” from 1999 to 2000, and “The Young and the Restless” from 1983 to 1984, where she portrayed the characters Tawny Moore and Patti Weaver. Born in Aurora, Ill., Evans appeared in beauty pageants and regional theater as a kid, and got her official start in show business as an extra in Brian De Palma’s 1978 thriller The Fury. That same year, she was also an extra in the NBC miniseries The Awakening. She soon landed the role of Tina Lord on One Life to Live, and quickly rose to fame. Evans stayed with the series until 1981, and went on to play Patty Williams on The Young and the Restless.