Beverlee McKinsey - Iris Carrington

Iris Carrington

After a brief appearance as Emma Frame on Another World in May 1972 she so impressed then-head writer Harding Lemay that he subsequently cast her in a drastically different role, from dowdy Emma to that of manipulative, scheming Iris Cory. McKinsey played the role from December 1972 to July 1980. During much of her tenure on Another World, McKinsey's portrayal of Iris was part of an unconventional triangle - the character was trying to break up her father Mackenzie Cory and his new wife, Rachel.

McKinsey's character, Iris Cory Carrington Delaney Bancroft, proved so popular that she was made the star of the soap's spin-off series, Texas, which debuted August 4, 1980. She remains one of two actresses on daytime television to be given a star billing on a soap opera, the other being Rosemary Prinz of "How To Survive A Marriage".

After leaving the role of Iris Wheeler in November 1981, NBC's Texas would eventually lose one million viewers in the Neilsen ratings. Her departure from daytime may have contributed to the show's poor ratings in the last quarter of 1981 and its subsequent cancellation in 1982.

McKinsey received four Daytime Emmy nominations for her work as Iris.