Actress. She is best remembered for her recurring portrayal of the headstrong and strong-willed matriarch Lila Quartermaine on the daytime soap opera "General Hospital." One of four children of a prosperous engineer, she was raised on a sugar plantation in Negros Island and following her high school graduation from the prestigious Brent International School in Baguio, she than returned to her native United States to begin her studies as an actress. Upon attaining her theatrical degree from The Academy of Dramatic Arts, she made her stage debut as the first Laura Wingfield in Tennessee Williams original production of "The Glass Menagerie" in Chicago, Illinois. She later appeared in leading roles in such stage performances as "The First Gentleman," "Morning Glory," "Dear Brutus," "All the Comforts of Home," "Two on an Island," and "Visit to a Small Planet". While performing in a production of "All This, and Heaven Too" at the Pasadena Playhouse, she was discovered by director Hal Keith. Impressed by her petite appearance and eloquent voice, he arranged for her to move from New York City, New York, to Los Angeles, California, to begin a second career in the television industry, starting with her personally being under his direction in an episode of the program "Mister Peppers". For the next four decades, she went on to flourish as a household name on television. Often typecast as a secretary, nurse, teacher, mother, grandmother, aunt, devoted wife, old maid, kindly neighbor, landlord, church lady, society matron, retail clerk, nanny, or housekeeper, she appeared in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "M Squad," "Have Gun - Will Travel," "Steve Canyon," "Zane Grey Theatre," "Peter Gunn," "Tightrope," "Angel," "Sea Hunt," "Hennessey," "77 Sunset Strip," "The Twilight Zone," "The Lawless Years," "Dr. Kildare," "The Untouchables," "Death Valley Days," "My Three Sons," "It's a Man's World," "Channing," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," "Wagon Train," "Mister Ed," "The Addams Family," "The Fugitive," "A Man Called Shenandoah," "The Loner," "Lassie," "Perry Mason," "Run for Your Life," "Cimarron Strip," "It Takes a Thief," "Judd for the Defense," "Bewitched," "Then Came Bronson," "Room 222," "The Virginian," "The F.B.I.," "Alias Smith and Jones," "Banyon," "Search," "Gunsmoke," "Circle of Fear," "The Waltons," "Cannon," "Police Story," "Barnaby Jones," "Ironside," "Police Woman," "Kojak," "The Bob Newhart Show," "Barney Miller," "City of Angels," "Delvecchio," "Charlie's Angels," "Most Wanted," "Emergency!," "The Love Boat," "Eight is Enough," "Days of Our Lives," "Angie," "Quincy, M.E.," "The Thorn Birds," "The Paper Chase," "Highway to Heaven," "Misfits of Science," "The Facts of Life," "Nothing in Common," "Who's the Boss?," "Mr. Belvedere," "Hooperman," "Have Faith," "Night Court," "Designing Women," "Dear John," "The Fanelli Brothers," "Reasonable Doubts," "The Golden Girls," "Delta," "Major Dad," "Family Matters," "Coach," and "Mad About You". In motion pictures, she appeared had lead roles in such films as "The Flight That Disappered" (1961), "Beauty and the Beast" (1962), "Marnie" (1964), "Fitzwilly" (1968), "Vanishing Point" (1971), "Our Time" (1974), "Lipstick" (1976), "Second Thoughts" (1983), "The Last Stargater" (1984), "Dragnet" (1987), and "Worth Winning" (1989). During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was a theatrical instructor for the UCLA, was active within the Bel-Air Republican Women's Group, and was a chairwoman for her local divisions of The American Red Cross and The Girl Scouts of America. Upon her retirement in 1995, Wyllie, who never married nor had any children, spent the remainder of her life dividing time between her homes in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Glendale, California, enjoyed the company of her extended family, and was an active parishioner of the Episcopal church.