Jeffrey Carlson, actor who played groundbreaking trans character in All My Children, dies aged 48

Jeffrey Carlson, pictured as Zoe in the long-running soap All My Children. Photograph: Heidi Gutman/Abc Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock

Jeffrey Carlson, the actor who played the groundbreaking transgender character Zoe in daytime soap All My Children, has died aged 48.

His death was first reported by his friend and Shakespeare Theatre Company actor Susan Hart, who played Gertrude opposite Carlson’s Hamlet. She said Carlson died on 6 July and that she was “just devastated.”