Everyone who has ever heard of All My Children remembers mega daytime star Susan Lucci in the role
of Erica Kane. Lucci was nominated 19 times for her lead role before winning a
Daytime Emmy in 1999. Hidden amid the hot-button stories right out of the day’s
headlines, are a number of feisty and beautiful characters who travelled the “AMC
Road to Fame”. Take a look:
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Kendall Hart
Kendall Hart
Before she starred in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer, Gellar originated the role of Erica Kane’s daughter
Kendall Hart, winning a Daytime Emmy for her portrayal of one of the most
devious daughters on television. “The
key is to have fun being evil,” she has said. “When you enjoy it, the audience
enjoys it.”
Kim Delaney
Jenny Gardner Nelson
Delaney, who now stars on Army Wives, has a favorite memory from her time on AMC. Guest star Carol Burnett took me
and some castmates out to a fancy dinner and told us to appreciate what we had
because it doesn’t always happen this way. We took her advice and savored the
moments. Delaney went on to star in several TV series after her stint on AMC including CSI: Miami, NYPD Blue, and Law
and Order: SVU.Jenny Gardner Nelson
Amanda Seyfried
Joni Stafford
Her ten month gig at AMC
holds a storied place in the Red Riding
Hood stars life. “I got cast in All
My Children, where I met my first love, who introduced me to my manager. He
was the reason I got Mean Girls. Seyfried,
who played an ultra-religious high schooler on the soap, told Backstage in 2010. That sure beats the
stint she did on As the World Turns. “I
was so bad they had to ship my character off,” said Seyfried. She’s stared in
several recent films, including Dear
John, Mamma Mia, Letters to Juliet, and Gone.Joni Stafford
Kelly Ripa
Hayley Vaughn Santos
Hayley Vaughn Santos
She has cohosted Live
with Regis & Kelly since 2001, but Ripa hasn’t changed much since her
days playing Adam Chandler’s daughter on AMC.
Describes by cast members as “very approachable, funny and kind...and always
good for a laugh”, Ripa was nominated for three Daytime Emmys for her work on
the show. ‘It was a great life and I wouldn’t have traded it for anything,” she
has said.
Although Adam chandler’s daughter Hayley had a dramatic and
often-rocky relationship with Mateo Santos (mark Consuelos), off screen the two
tied the knot in Las Vegas in 1996 after just a few months of dating. They now
have three children together. Rips has said “[AMC] played a big part in our
lives. [We] met there, and we had our [first two] children there.”
Dr. Maria Santos Grey
La Rue’s first year on the AMC set was the college experience she never had. “It felt like a
big sorority” says the CSI: Miami star, who has remained close to former
costars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Kelly Ripa. Playing the new surgeon in town,
Maria (La Rue) quickly fell for news reporter Edmund (John Callahan) and married
him. The two were wed in real life in 1996. La Rue recalls falling in love off-screen and the
TV wedding. Maria and Edmund went on to have two kids, while the stars who
played them had a daughter in 2001. The real life couple divorced in 2004.
La Rue was thrilled when her wish to return to AMC before the show’s finale was granted.
“I really wanted to be a part of the end.”
Lauren Holly
Julie Chandler
Holly, who had only
worked in commercials before landing the AMC
role, still remembers the thrill of shooting her first scene. I had two
sentences to say, and I was so nervous, it took me three days to memorize them,”
says the actress. She went on to star in several seasons of one of television’s
top rated shows NCIS as the agency’s
director Jenny Shepard. Holly also starred in Dumb and Dumber and Dragon: The
Bruce Lee Story.Julie Chandler
Debbie MorganDr. Angie Baxter
Debbie Morgan is perhaps best known for
her role as Dr. Angie Hubbard on AMC, and for
her role as The Seer in the fourth and fifth seasons of Charmed.
In
the 1980s and 1990s, Morgan became a de facto symbol for the
possibilities for black women as all of her soap opera roles involved her
playing a successful doctor. Her most famous role was Angie Baxter Hubbard
on
All My Children, a role she originally played from January 1982 to July
1990. Her portrayal of Angie struck a chord with many Black viewers across
America. Angie and her love interest, Jesse Hubbard (Darnell Williams), became the first African-American "supercouple"
on the daytime serials. In 1989, Morgan won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (which she shares with Santa Barbara actress Nancy Lee Grahn). Morgan, along with Darnell Williams, returned to All My Children in January 2008. Morgan joined the cast of The Young and the Restless as Yolanda "Harmony" Hamilton on October 7, 2011, exactly two weeks after All My Children aired its final television episode on September 23, 2011.
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