Eileen Davidson
Year Award Category Title Result
1986 Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Lead Actress in a Daytime Drama The Young and the Restless Nominated
1988 Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Heroine The Young and the Restless Nominated
1997 Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Lead Actress Days of Our Lives Nominated
1998 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Days of Our Lives Nominated
1999 Soap Opera Digest Award Outstanding Lead Actress Days of Our Lives Nominated
2000 Soap Opera Digest Award Favorite Return The Young and the Restless Nominated
2003 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series The Young and the Restless Nominated
2014 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Days of Our Lives Won
2018 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series The Young and The Restless Won
Awards and nominations
Eileen Marie Davidson (born June 15, 1959) is an American actress, author, television personality and former model. Davidson is best known for her roles in soap operas as Kristen DiMera on NBC's Days of Our Lives, as well as Ashley Abbott on CBS's The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. In 2014, for her role in Days of Our Lives, Davidson was awarded a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, the second actress to win a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Lead Actress for the soap; and in 2018 she won the award again for her role on The Young and the Restless. Davidson also starred in the film The House on Sorority Row (1983), had a leading role in the short-lived CBS crime series Broken Badges (1990-91), and wrote a number of mystery novels in the 2000s. In 2014, Davidson joined the cast of Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with record salary of $750,000 per season.