FIRST APPEARANCE:June 1979 LAST APPEARANCE:March 21, 1980 PERFORMER:Kim Hunter (1979-80). EXIT:Confessing to the murder of Margo Huntington. LAST LINE: (To Owen) "I'm ready..." SPOUSE:Owen Madison. RELATIVES:Brian Madison (son). Paige Madison (step-daughter). LOVERS:Eddie Vaughn (former). Eliot Dorn. OCCUPATION:Former movie star/aging actress. ALIASES:Mrs. Martha Corey. Nola Patterson. MEDICAL HISTORY:Alcoholic Nola arrived in Monticello straight from a Betty Ford-type clinc. VILLAINOUS ACTS:Kept son Brian's true paternity a secret so that he wouldn't marry his "sister" Paige. Set fire to the Mansion of the Damned movie set, which resulted in the death of Brian's real father Eddie Vaughn. Poisoned Deborah Saxon and hired a thug to kill her. Dumped amphetamines into Miles Cavanaugh's water cooler to make Miles think he was going insane. Murdered Margo Dorn and allowed Draper Scott to stand trial for the crime. FUN FACTS:Actress Kim Hunter was the first actress to play more than two parts on one serial at the same time. Hunter played Nola Madison, Hester Atherton (a witch in the movie Mansion of the Damned), Rachel Barnes (a street vendor upon whom Nola based Hester's appearance), and Martha Corey (the identity Nola assumed to poison neighbor Deborah Saxon). Kim Hunter joked that she never would have accepted the role on Edge if she had known the part would require extensive, complicated makeup sessions (Hunter endured a grueling experience in a makeup artist's chair as Zira in three "Planet of the Apes" motion pictures).
SPOUSE:Owen Madison.
