Esta TerBlanche All My Children Actress and Former Miss Teen South Africa: Biography and Photos

Esta TerBlanche All My Children Actress has died, on Sunday, July 21. She was 51.

“We are deeply saddened by this news,” her manager Annie Spoliansky said. “As for a personal statement, I’d like to say that Esta was such a kind, loving, giving, and caring person.”

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Esta TerBlanche All My Children Actress

“She cared so deeply for all people and animals,” she added. “She had squirrels she fed and looked after daily, her two cats and recent kittens that she cared for as her own children.”

“Esta was never anything but generous and lovely to me, and I’m grateful to have known her for the time that I did, and devastated to learn of her passing,” her statement concluded.

Esta TerBlanche All My Children Actress: The cause of the South African actress’ death is unknown. Deadline reported that authorities believe TerBlanche had been dead for about a day when her body was found.

TerBlanche was best known for playing Gillian Andrassy Lavery on All My Children from 1997 to 2001. The character was a Hungarian princess whose love interest and eventual husband on the show was Cameron Mathison’s character Ryan Lavery.

Esta TerBlanche All My Children Actress

“RIP my Sweet Princess,” Mathison, 54, wrote in tribute over a photo of the pair in character on his Instagram Stories on Sunday. He also posted another photo of the TV couple posing together with broken heart emojis over it.

“Esta helped me last year when Red was sick and paralyzed and I was struggling,” he wrote over another photo of the pair, a recent selfie. “One of the sweetest people ever.”

Mathison grinned in the photo as TerBlanche made a kissing face near his cheek.

Esta TerBlanche biography

Esta TerBlanche (7 January 1973 – 19 July 2024) was a South African actress, best known for her roles on television soap operas in both South Africa and the United States.

Esta TerBlanche All My Children Actress: Early life

TerBlanche was born in Rustenburg, North West Province. She was of Huguenot descent. She grew up on a game farm, replete with monkeys, cows, horses, sheep, warthogs, and elands.

Television

TerBlanche was crowned Miss Teen South Africa in 1991, and subsequently played Bienkie Naudé Hartman on the South African drama Egoli: Place of Gold from 1992 to 1995.

In 1995, TerBlanche decided not to renew her contract with Egoli and, instead, opted to further her acting career in the U.S. Within three weeks of arriving in Los Angeles, she found her first job, acting in a hair products commercial.

Esta TerBlanche All My Children Actress: In 1997, TerBlanche was cast in the role of Gillian Andrassy on the American daytime drama All My Children.

Esta TerBlanche All My Children Actress: Gillian, a troublemaking princess, was killed off in 2001 as TerBlanche asked to be written out of the show to move back to South Africa.

TerBlanche made a guest appearance on Egoli: Place of Gold in 2004. She also made additional appearances on South African TV and in movies, but later returned to the United States.[citation needed]

In 2010, she was interviewed by the American magazine Soap Opera Digest. She reported then that she had divorced and taken a break from acting.

She stated that she had opened a spa, exploring her interest in the medical field and in healing.

In the interview, TerBlanche also noted that she had begun acting again and had recently filmed a pilot in South Africa.

Esta TerBlanche All My Children Actress: She expressed interest in returning to All My Children or acting in another soap, citing her time on All My Children as the best of her life. In 2011, she was briefly profiled in the People magazine tribute to All My Children.

In August 2011, it was announced that TerBlanche would reprise the role of Gillian during the final weeks of All My Children’s broadcast on American network television.

TerBlanche made a guest appearance on the show on 24 August 2011.

Plays she appeared in include: The Glass Menagerie, Pygmalion, Hear Ye, and Ten Times Worse on Friday. She also starred in the film, Three Thieves and a Wedding.

TerBlanche also worked as a TV presenter in South Africa for the environmental program 50/50 and the children’s show, K-T.V. TerBlanche is well known in South Africa and appeared on the covers of many magazines.

Personal life

Esta TerBlanche All My Children Actress: A native speaker of Afrikaans, TerBlanche also spoke English and German fluently, and could speak French, Italian, and Russian with varying levels of fluency. TerBlanche was married to André Kock from 1997 to 2008, when they divorced.

TerBlanche died on 19 July 2024 in Los Angeles.