Ellen Demming

Who was Ellen Demming?

Ellen Demming was an American actress, best known for her role as Meta Bauer on the soap opera The Guiding Light, which she played from 1953 to 1974.

Demming also acted in off-Broadway and summer stock theatrical productions. She played Mary in Family Portrait. Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times deemed her performance full of "...pride, modesty, and great delicacy of feeling."

After her retirement from The Guiding Light, she moved to South Salem, New York, and later, to Vermont.