Rebecca Balding

Rebecca Balding was an American actress known for her work on the TV shows Soap and Charmed. She played reporter Carla Mardigian on Lou Grant in 1977 and Carol David on Soap from 1978. Rebecca Balding went nude on screen in Silent Scream, which came out in 1979. She was born on September 21, 1948, in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1981 she starred in the horror movie The Boogens, directed by her future husband James L. Conway. On Charmed she played newspaper editor Elise Rothman, the boss of Phoebe Halliwell, from 2002 until 2006. She also appeared in Makin' It as Corky Crandall and in the TV film The Gathering. Balding died of ovarian cancer in Park City, Utah, on July 18, 2022.