Agnes Nixon is a successful screenwriter, Actor, and Television Producer. She is famous for creating of soap operas like One Life to Live, All My Children, and Loving. She was the consulting producer & executive producer for all 3 shows for many years. As she created large number of soap operas shows People called her the "Queen" of the modern soap opera. From 1970 to 1992 all episodes of All My Children was written by either Aggie or her trainee and student W. Washam. Under the instruction of Phillips one of her friend died from cervical cancer which was prevalent at that time in American women. Nixon wanted to educate people after the sad death of her friend. She felt the need to write first medical story on soap operas. She wrote about screening test of cervical cancer by having the lead role character Bert Bauer on Guiding Light which was aired in 1962. After this story the incidence of cervical cancer decreases from highest to lowest because a large number of women took Pap smear. In 2002, for her contribution in health she received a special Sentinel for Health "pioneer award". Later on due to restrictions she had to leave another world to create her own shows. She is recognized as a pioneer in producing social awareness in daytime television by introducing topics such as the abortion, child abuse, Vietnam War, drug addiction, racism, stroke, and AIDS in her story lines since the early 1960s. Her net worth has grown significantly in 2015, however exact amount varies depending on various sources.
Education
In the late 1940s she did her graduation from St. Cecilia High School in Nashville, and then attended St. Mary’s College in Indiana for 2 years. In 1942 she transferred to Northwestern University where she was a proud member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. In the same university she studied along with her fellows under the famous drama teacher Alvina Krause. She started writing radio plays while she was there is university and wrote story of her aviator fiancé who had been killed during Second World War.
Personal life
Agnes Nixon wasborn on December 10, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. She is the daughter of Harry Eckhardt who was a burial garments manufacturer and Agnes Patricia, her mother was an insurance treasurer. Her parents separated when she was a child and was raised by her grandmother and mother. Agnes married automobile executive Robert Henry Adolphus on April 6 1951, and she welcomed four children: Mary Frances, Catherine Agnes, Robert Henry and Emily Anne. They lived in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Her husband died on November 22, 1996.
Awards and Milestones
In 1948 she started her career by writing for radio soap opera ‘Women in White’. She was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1994 at the Planet Hollywood restaurant. National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored her Trustees Award in 1981. In 2000 she was appointed as overall story consultant for ABC Daytime. In short she received five Writers Guild Awards, five Daytime Emmys, and a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award.
| Birth Date: | 10 Dec, 1922 |
| Age: | 97 yrs |
| Occupations: | Screenwriter Television director Writer |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Chicago |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American soap opera screenwriter |
| Net Worth 2021: | 8 million |
