The 66-year-old actress best known for playing Patty Williams on the soap opera has died of breast cancer.

The Young and the Restless fans are in mourning. Actress Andrea Evans, who played the character of Patty Williams in the soap opera, died on Sunday July 9, 2023. She was 66 years old. The actress died of breast cancer, her husband, Stephen Rodriguez, revealed to People magazine: “Cancer killed Andrea, but it didn’t kill her spirit. That spirit is alive and kicking. perpetuates in each of us”.

Originally from Illinois, USA, Andrea Evans rose to fame in the 1980s thanks to her role in the series You Only Live Once. She played the character of Tina Lord there. For a year, from 1983 to 1984, she starred as Patty Williams in The Young and the Restless. Her career was put on hiatus in the 1990s, when she was the victim of harassment and attempted murder by a man. She made her return to the air in the series Passions, from 2000 to 2008, where she played the character of Rebecca Hotchkiss.