As Erika Slezak prepares to make her Port Charles debut this fall on Normal Hospital, longtime One Life to Stay followers could also be stunned to study that the Daytime Emmy-winning actress gained’t be reprising her iconic position as Victoria Lord, or bringing any of that character’s baggage together with her.
Based on an announcement on her official web site, the veteran cleaning soap star will seem on the ABC daytime drama in a short-term position, enjoying a brand-new character. Her episodes are scheduled to start taping in early September.
“Presently, Erika doesn’t know which character she might be enjoying or when her scenes will air, however is happy to be working once more with Govt Producer Frank Valentini and the solid of GH!,” a rep for the actress acknowledged on her website.
Typically thought to be one of the complicated and layered feminine character performances in tv historical past, Erika Slezak portrayed Victoria “Viki” Lord on One Life to Stay for over 40 years throughout its run on ABC. Throughout her time on the collection, Slezak gained six Daytime Emmy Awards for her portrayal of the Lord household matriarch.
First launched in 1968, Viki developed from a younger heiress into the editor-in-chief of the city’s newspaper, The Banner, and the highly effective head of each the Lord and Buchanan clans. She is greatest remembered for her groundbreaking storyline involving Dissociative Id Dysfunction, which her character developed as a consequence of childhood trauma, in addition to her many, many marriages. She was additionally the mom to a number of in style characters on the present, Jessica Buchanan (Bree Williamson) and Natalie Buchanan (Melissa Archer).
The present aired its last broadcast on January 13, 2012, although it loved a quick resurrection as an online collection on Hulu and iTunes from April to August 2013.
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