Leslie Charleson, who is known for her decades-long career on the beloved soap opera General Hospital, passed away at the age of 79 on Sunday, January 12.

Soap opera icon Leslie Charleson, best known as Monica Quartermaine on "General Hospital," died Sunday morning after a long illness. She was 79.

Leslie Charleson, who played popular character ... M.D.," "Ironside," "Kung Fu," and "The Rockford Files.""It was on Happy Days that Leslie gave Ron Howard his first on-screen kiss," her bio ...