Irene Dailey, an actress who won praise for her stage performances but was best known for her role as Liz Matthews on the NBC daytime soap opera “Another World,” has died. She was 88.

Dailey died Sept. 24 of colon cancer at a health care facility in Santa Rosa, Calif., according to Arleen Lorrance, a longtime friend. She had been a resident of the nearby Sonoma County town of Guerneville.

After working in the theater for more than 20 years, Dailey was cast as Nettie Cleary in “The Subject Was Roses” in 1964. As the unhappy wife in a family that is reunited after a son returns home from the Army, Dailey’s Nettie was “a luminous creation,” theater critic Howard Taubman wrote in The New York Times. “She can suggest hurt and desiccation with a stricken glance.”