Margaret Mason (December 31, 1940 – March 26, 1999) was an American actress best remembered for her work on soap operas in the 1970s and 1980s.
"[2] From late 1972 until its cancellation in 1974, Mason portrayed main character Selena Cross in the daytime soap opera Return to Peyton Place.
During the late 1970s, Linda became one of the few female business executives on daytime, taking over Anderson Manufacturing while her husband Bob was recovering from a heart attack.
Afterwards, she starred as the devious Eve Howard, Victor Newman's former secretary and lover on The Young and the Restless on and off from 1980 to 1984, and briefly in 1993.
Her 1993 return saw a less calculating version of Eve, more concerned about the fact that her son Cole might be in love with his own sister, Victoria.
[1] According to the actress, surviving these setbacks changed her personality, from being a "panicky, fussing" woman who became "excited about nothing and being upset about small things" to one who was "unhurried, calm, pausing to savor life".
[1] It took her a year and a half to rehabilitate, and although she frequently felt over-tired in her later life, she insisted she fully recovered, saying, "I feel much better than I did before the operation.