Carlson performed one of many first transgender characters to come back out on daytime TV, portraying a British rocker named Zarf who later got here out as transgender lesbian Zoe.
Cleaning soap opera and stage actor Jeffrey Carlson is useless. He was 48.
Theater critic for Time Out New York Adam Feldman first broke the information on Sunday, tweeting, “RIP Jeffrey Carlson, 48, exposed-nerve star of Broadway (Billy in The Goat, Marilyn in Taboo) and TV (the groundbreaking trans character Zoe on All My Youngsters). A strong actor and a painful loss.”
No extra particulars about Carlson’s demise had been revealed.
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The actor was greatest identified for his run on All My Youngsters, beginning in 2006. Carlson was launched in August 2006 as British rocker Zarf, whose transition was chronicled throughout his time on the present. The character later got here out as a transgender lesbian named Zoe and had a romantic storyline with Eden Riegel’s Bianca Montgomery.
Following his demise, Riegel took to Twitter to pay tribute to her former costar.
“Devastated past measure to listen to of the passing of the gorgeous and gifted Jeffrey Carlson,” she wrote. “I really feel lucky to have known as this sort soul a good friend and see his sensible work up shut. Gone far too quickly — an unimaginable loss. Love you, Jeffrey. Relaxation good friend.”
Whereas not the primary transgender character to seem on daytime tv, Zoe seems to be certainly one of — if not the — first characters whose popping out and transition was highlighted.
A Juilliard graduate, Carlson’s stage credit additionally embrace Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who’s Sylvia?, the Boy George musical Taboo and productions of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. He additionally appeared within the Will Smith film Hitch.
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