Personal Life
She was married three times and is the mother of Scott McKinsey from her marriage to Mark McKinsey. Her son is a director on the soap opera General Hospital (on which she briefly appeared in 1994), husband of actress Nancy Bates. She has one grandson, Marley McKinsey. Her second husband was actor Angus Duncan. Both he and Beverly appeared on "General Hospital" but at different times and after their divorce.
McKinsey married fellow co-star from Love is a Many Splendored Thing Berkeley Harris in 1972, and later helped nurse him through a terminal bout of brain cancer prior to his death in 1984.
She briefly returned to acting in 1994, as Myrna Slaughter on General Hospital, stating that the reason for it had to do with her medical insurance, but considered herself adamantly retired from soaps from that moment in 1992 when she last left the set of GL. She had resisted all entreaties to return to daytime television. After some health issues, including a kidney transplant, McKinsey retired to Southern California and made few public appearances. Michael Logan famously described McKinsey as " Greta Garbo look like a chatterbox!". Logan, TV Guide's soap columnist, once called McKinsey "…the greatest actress ever to grace daytime drama".
Beverlee McKinsey died on May 2, 2008, at the Olympic Medical Center in Los Angeles, of complications due to a kidney transplant. McKinsey initially had kidney transplant surgery in 1998.
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