Late American Soap star Nancy Frangione was married to actor Christopher Rich and the duo had one child together. Let’s meet her ex-husband and daughter.
Actress Nancy Frangione, best known for her role in the daytime soap opera Another World, has died at age 70.
Frangione died in her hometown of Barnstable, Massachusetts, about 71 miles south of Boston, on August 18.
Following her death, many are asking who she was married to and whether she had any kids. Yes, she was a mother and a spouse. So, read on for more about her love life and her bereaved family.
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Who is Nancy Frangione’s husband?
Before Nancy Frangione died, she was not known to have had a husband or a partner, at least not in the public’s eye. However, this doesn’t mean she never fell in love in her entire life. She has been married and divorced once.
When she was 29 years old, she tied the knot with Christopher Rich, a fellow actor and a co-star in Another World. The duo married for 14 year. Their union started in 1982 but divorced after over a decade of marriage in 1996.
Before separation, they were parents to one child.
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Who is Christopher Rich?
Christopher Rich Wilson is an American actor and the ex-spouse of Soap opera actress, Nancy Frangione.
Christopher Rich’s films include Murphy Brown, Reba, Boston Legal, In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas, Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again.
Rich currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Eva Halina Rich, a former Miss Poland and an Olympic gymnast at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Rich married his second wife, Eva Halina Rich, in 2003 and they’ve been together since.
When not working, he enjoys collecting fine wines, playing golf and collecting and reading books.
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Did Nancy Frangione have any children?
Nancy Frangione was a mother of one. Before she died, she had a one child, a daughter named Mariel Rich.
She shared her kid with Christopher Rich, her ex-husband of 14 years.
Mariel also has two half-sisters from her father’s side.
Following Nacy and Christopher’s divorce, he moved on to marry Eva Halina Rich. The duo welcomed two daughters together.
Christopher Rich’s fraternal twin daughters (who are Mariel Rich’s half-sisters) are Daisy Grace Wilson and Lily Hanna Wilson.
Daisy was born on March 30, 2004 while Lily Hanna was born on March 30 2004.
In 2015, when Lily Hanna Wilson & Daisy Grace Wilson were 11 years old they appeared in the first two seasons of the Polish reality TV series called Żony Hollywood (English Hollywood Wives) based on The Real Housewives franchise with their father and mother, in which their mother, Eva, was one of the stars.
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Nancy Frangione had an impressive career.
Frangione made her acting debut in the late 1970s on ABC’s All My Children, portraying Tara Martin.
From 1981 to 1984 she played the villain in Another World, Cecile DePoulignac.
She won Soap Opera Digest’s Outstanding Villainess for her role as Cecile in 1984.
Frangione reprised her role several times from the late ’80s until 1996.
Frangione also appeared in ABC’s One Life to Live, CBS’ The Nanny, Highway To Heaven, Matlock, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.