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Susan Lucci
Scarsdale, New York, USA
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 M…
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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.
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2026
Outcome
Movie Dinah Hawk
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2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Movie Self
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2023
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Movie Self - Guest
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
Welcome to Wrexham
TV show Self
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2022
Generation Gap
TV show Self - Celebrity Guest
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2021
Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2020
The Story of Soaps
Movie Self
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
It Takes a Lunatic
Movie Self
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2015
Joy
Movie Danica
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2015
Difficult People
TV show Shelley Waxman
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2013
Beat Bobby Flay
TV show Self
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2013
Devious Maids
TV show Genevieve Delatour
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2012
Deadly Affairs
TV show Host
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2010
The Talk
TV show Self
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2010
Hot in Cleveland
TV show Susan Lucci
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2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV show Self - Guest
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2007
Army Wives
TV show Audrey Whitaker
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2005
The Reichen Show
TV show Self
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2005
Dancing with the Stars
TV show Self - Contestant
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2004
The Tony Danza Show
TV show Self
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2004
Higglytown Heroes
TV show
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2003
Hope & Faith
TV show Jacqueline Karr
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2003
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Movie Self
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV show Self - Guest
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2003
That's So Raven
TV show Charlotte Romano
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1998
Blood on Her Hands
Movie Isabelle Collins
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1997
The View
TV show Self
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1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV show Self
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1995
Ebbie
Movie Ebbie Scrooge
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1995
Seduced and Betrayed
Movie Victoria Landers
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1994
French Silk
Movie Claire Laurent
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1993
Intimate Portrait
TV show Self
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1993
Between Love and Hate
Movie Vivian Conrad
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1992
Double Edge
Movie Maggie Dutton / Carmen Moore
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1991
The Woman Who Sinned
Movie Victoria Robeson
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1990
The Bride in Black
Movie Rose D'Amore-Malloy
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1990
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie Self
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1988
Lady Mobster
Movie Laurel Castle
