Soap actors who never had a defining role

[DeeeDee]

Touche!

[soapfan770]

I might go with Anthony Addabbo, Linda Cook, Charles Grant, and Peter Brown as actors who were on multiple soaps without having any defining roles.

Rod Arrants might count has an actor who had one defining role one but never did on other soaps. He was famous and popular on SFT as Travis but his roles on Days and Y&R were rather unmemorable despite being paired with leading ladies Hall and Davidson respectively.

[Cheap21]

How about Michael Sabatino. I think he's like the perfect example

I never even knew he was Philip

I think Brian's was defiently Rafe on PC. He was immensely popular when he was on the show, especially when the character was paired up with Alison.

[Cheap21]

I dont think there's much of a confusion about which is each of these actor's defining role

Hillary Smith - Nora, OLTL

Susan Flannery, Stephanie, BB

John McCook, Eric, BB

Debbi Morgan, Angie, AMC

Darnell Williams, Jesse, AMC

Heather Tom, Victoria, YR

Julie Pinson, Eve, PC

[DRW50]

A lot of people who watched soaps in the 70s may always remember Susan as Laura Horton, and John as Lance Prentiss. There are a lot of people who always remember Hillary as Margo Hughes.

[Cheap21]

true but I think the Susan and John have been in their B&B roles for so long that it is their defining ones, especially since they are original cast members. I have no idea who Lance Prentiss even is and what show he's from. Hillary, I distinctly define her with Nora, but admittidely, Ive never seen her as Margo

[TC]

Crystal Chappell: Carly or Olivia? Notice I did not mention that nun who wanted to start a clown school.

[Cheap21]

I loved Maggie!

[TC]

So did I. But I think I love her even more now as that particular footnote.

[Chris B]

It's weird, but three Margo's each played her during pivitol times in her life. I'd definitely say Margo and Nora are both defining roles for Hilary B Smith. She wasn't just an ATWT character, she was a CBS superstar because of that role. The power of her stories lives on today. My mom screamed "Margo!" when she saw her on OLTL.

[Max]

Nicholas Pryor is somebody who also comes to mind. According to the IMDB, he starred in The Brighter Day, Young Dr. Malone, The Secret Storm, AW, The Nurses, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, AMC, EON, BH 90210, and PC. Perhaps his most famous role was that of Tom Baxter on AW, who (in 1964) pressured Pat Matthews into getting a back-alley abortion, which left her sterile. (Pat later shot Tom dead.)

[DeeeDee]

Ellen Dolan

Lisa Brown

[Faulkner]

My mother (a former ATWT fan) did the exact same thing when she saw HBS as Nora on OLTL. Looking at some old Marland-era clips on YouTube, HBS is quite charming as Margo. Ellen Dolan is a much harder Margo.

[DRW50]

Yeah, I know fans who still see her as Margo, and who still see Ellen Dolan as Maureen Bauer, not Margo.

Ellen is harder, but I think the writing is the big difference. When Marland wrote for Ellen's Margo, she had much more humor and heart and vulnerability than she had after Marland's passing.

[Khan]

IMO, Margo's that rare soap character who's been recast more than once quite successfully. Margaret Colin, HBS, and ED each has put her own "spin" on the character; and each has made the character successful and memorable w/ the audience in her own way, too. Honestly, I can't decide which is my favorite of the three (although, Colin comes close, just for the chemistry she shared w/ Justin Deas' Tom).

OTOH, Tom Hughes? Not always so easy to recast. Deas was good, and so is Holmes. Gregg Marx? Eh, okay. But that one between him and Deas? Jason Kincaid? He was to Tom what Glynnis O'Connor ended up being to Margo.