Jeanne Davis Glynn, 75, Emmy-nominated writer

NEW FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Jeanne Davis Glynn, an actress who received several Emmy nominations as a writer for daytime soap operas, died Friday at a local health care center, according to family members. She was 75.

Ms. Glynn had been in treatment for cancer since 1999 and her health had started to fail earlier this year, said her former husband, Malachy Glynn.

Ms. Glynn received five Emmy Award nominations as a script writer in the 1980s and 1990s on the shows "General Hospital," "Guiding Light," "As the World Turns," "One Life to Live" and "Port Charles."

She won a Writers Guild of America Award in 1984 for her work on "Search for Tomorrow," and received a Soap Opera Digest Award six years later for "General Hospital" scripts.

"It was an actor in New York City who first challenged me to write soap operas," Ms. Glynn said in an interview last year with the News-Times newspaper of Danbury.

"He said it was a good way of reaching young people and I already knew, of course, that TV was the greatest commercial tool in the world for telling stories about the human condition," she said.

Ms. Glynn was born in Chicago, and she grew up near Buffalo . She graduated from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and later toured Europe and the United States as an actor, producer, and director, family members said.

In New York, she appeared in Christopher Plummer's television production of "Oedipus Rex" and acted, directed, and stage managed productions at Circle in the Square.

Ms. Glynn was a longtime resident of New Fairfield and had two sons: Danbury attorney Liam Glynn and John Glynn, an advertising executive in New York City.

"She beat the odds both in her life and her illness," said her son John. "She was a role model both for her family and for many other people."