Susan Lucci
- Acting
- December 23, 1946 · Scarsdale, New York, USA
Biography
Susan Victoria Lucci (born December 23, 1946) is an American actress, television host, author and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama All My Children during the show's entire network run from 1970 to 2011. Previously, she starred on the 60's soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing. In 1996, TV Guide ranked Lucci number 37 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. She was named one of VH1's 200 Top Icons of All Time and one of Barbara Walters's Ten Most Fascinating People. During her run on All My Children, she was nominated 21 times for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She won only once, in 1999, after the 19th nomination; beginning in the late 1980s her status as a perpetual nominee for the award attracted significant media attention. The character she portrayed, Erica Kane, is considered an icon, and Lucci was called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times citing her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television. Lucci has also acted in other TV series, as well as occasionally in film and on stage. She had multi-episode guest appearances on the series Dallas, Hot in Cleveland and Army Wives. She hosted Saturday Night Live in 1990. After the cancellation of All My Children, she hosted the 2012-2014 true crime series Deadly Affairs and narrated its' offshoot Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love. She starred as Genevieve Delatour in the 2013-2016 Lifetime series Devious Maids.
Known for
Filmography
- Outcome · Dinah Hawk
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert · Self
- Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love · Self
- Sherri · Self
- Welcome to Wrexham · Self
- Generation Gap · Self
- Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love · Narrator (Voice)
- The Story of Soaps · Self
- The Tamron Hall Show · Self
- It Takes a Lunatic · Self
- Joy · Danica
- Difficult People · Shelley Waxman
- Beat Bobby Flay · Self
- Devious Maids · Genevieve Delatour
- Deadly Affairs · Host
- The Talk · Self
- Hot in Cleveland · Susan Lucci
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Self
- Army Wives · Audrey Whitaker
- The Reichen Show · Self
- Dancing with the Stars · Self
- The Tony Danza Show · Self
- Higglytown Heroes
- Hope & Faith · Jacqueline Karr
- ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration · Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- That's So Raven · Charlotte Romano
- Blood on Her Hands · Isabelle Collins
- The View · Self
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show · Self
- Ebbie · Ebbie Scrooge
- Seduced and Betrayed · Victoria Landers
- French Silk · Claire Laurent
- Intimate Portrait · Self
- Between Love and Hate · Vivian Conrad
- Double Edge · Maggie Dutton / Carmen Moore
- The Woman Who Sinned · Victoria Robeson
- The Bride in Black · Rose D'Amore-Malloy
- Night of 100 Stars III · Self
- Lady Mobster · Laurel Castle
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark · Self
- Haunted by Her Past · Karen Beckett aka Katherine Raymond
- Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna · Darya Romanoff
- Mafia Princess · Antoinette Giancana
- Night of 100 Stars II · Self
- Jeopardy! · Self
- Invitation to Hell · Jessica Jones
- Young Doctors in Love · Susan Lucci (uncredited)
- The Fall Guy
- Entertainment Tonight · Self
- Dallas · Sheila Foley / Hillary Taylor, Sheila Foley / Hilary Michaels
- The Love Boat · Paula Hastings
- Saturday Night Live · Self
- All My Children · Erica Kane / Jane Campbell, Erica Kane
- Me, Natalie · Cheerleader
- Goodbye, Columbus · Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Self
- The Mike Douglas Show · Self