Emily Stewart
fictional character from As the World Turns
Emily Stewart is a fictional character from As the World Turns, an American soap opera on the CBS network. She has been portrayed by Kelley Menighan Hensley since July 1992. 10 years later, the actress received her first Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress. The character briefly appeared on the CBS soap, The Young and the Restless in March 2007, when she went to ask Amber Moore about finding her sister and biological daughter, Alison Stewart.
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Emily Stewart is the daughter of Dan and Susan Stewart. They divorced soon after she was born. She goes to live with her father, but after a custody battle between Dan and Susan in which Dan won, she goes back and forth between them. Emily's life wasn't very stable; her mother was an alcoholic, and when she was eight years old, her father died. Susan and Emily later left town, but Emily came back to Oakdale when she was 17. A very young Emily found herself falling in love with James Stenbeck and she became pregnant.
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