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Hours after PEOPLE confirmed Monday that Evans, 66,diedfrom cancer on Sunday, her castmate — who played Evans' character Tina Lord’s on-and-off husband Cord Roberts on the hit soap opera — reflects on his years working with the late actress.
“Working with Andrea Evans was one of the highlights of my acting career,” Loprieno tells PEOPLE exclusively.
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The actress’s portrayal ofOLTL’s troubled teenager Tina earned her aDaytime Emmy Awardnomination for outstanding ingenue in a drama series in 1988. Loprieno praised Evans' acting abilities, remembering her as someone who created “magic in the room.”
“From the day that she first welcomed me to the set ofOne Life to Live, through the final reunion episodes that we shot when the show was ending, Andrea continued to be a generous, blissfully comedic and insightful scene partner,” he recalled. “I reference Andrea many times in my classes and often talk about our times on the set.”
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When speaking on his favorite memory with Evans, Loprieno reflected on one of his earliest appearances onOne Life to Live,which premiered in 1968 andended in 2013.
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