Ellen Dolan (born October 16, 1955 in Monticello, Iowa) has starred in TV soap operas such as Guiding Light, where she played the role of Maureen Reardon Bauer from 1982-1986, and As the World Turns, as Margo Montgomery Hughes from 1989 to 1993, and from 1994 to present.
In 1992, The National Television Academy nominated her for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her additional television credits include the made-for-TV movies Mother�s Day, Mothers, Daughters and Lovers with Helen Shaver and Claude Akins, and Dancing with Danger, with Cheryl Ladd and Ed Marinaro.
Her career began in 1980 at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater with roles such as Katrin in Mother Courage. Her subsequent roles in numerous regional productions have included Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Virginia Stage Company, May in How the Other Half Loves at the Pennsylvania Stage Company, and Clelia in The Nerd at the Capitol Repertory in Albany, NY.
She also started a theater company in New York called The Studio Three Group. She joined a repertory group called the WorkShop Theater Company in 2004 and has had leading roles in several mainstage productions there.
Dolan earned her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees in theater from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. While working toward her bachelor�s degree, she spent a summer studying dramatic arts at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Ellen and businessman Doug Jeffrey had their first child, a daughter, Angela Emmett Jeffrey (born April 15, 2000).
