Marnie Schulenburg was born on May 21, 1982 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She was educated at the DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania and graduated with a degree in theater and directing. She also took dance and voice lessons at the Cape Cod Conservatory in West Barnstable, and worked at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Shortly after graduating from college, she was cast for a role in As the World Turns. This same role was crossed over to another soap,
The Young and the Restless .
Alison Stewart is played by Marnie Schulenburg on the soap opera As the World Turns. Alison was conceived by implanting Susan Stewart's womb with her daughter Emily's egg fertilized by Susan's younger husband Larry's sperm. This unconventional conception was done because Susan could not give her husband a child. Susan raised Alison on her own since she later divorced her husband. Alison grew up with a selfish attitude because of the way Susan raised her, and this was apparent when she pursued Aaron Snyder who was interested in another girl by the name of Lucy Montgomery. She was determined to separate the two and went to extremes just to carry out this mission.