I was watching Y&R the other night, thinking to myself, "I could sit and listen to Jess Walton talk all day." Which soap actors, of the past or present, possess your favorite voices in daytime? Feel free to add your least favorites if you're so inclined.

I'll start with some names in no particular order...

-Jess Walton

-Marj Dusay

-Beverlee McKinsey

-Anne Meacham

-Jeanne Cooper (her '80s voice... like Bea Arthur, she seems to have quit smoking at some point and her voice healed)

-Norma Donaldson

-Erika Slezak (may fall more under the category of speech, I adore her diction)

-Douglass Watson

-Eric Braeden (like Slezak, perhaps more speech-related, the accent has a lot to do with it)

-Phil Carey

-James Mitchell

-Louis Edmonds

-Michael Nader

-David Canary

Thorsten Kaye

I'd listen to him read the phone book

Erika Slezak

Phil Carey

Frances Heflin

John Aniston and Joe Mascolo. Oh and Thaoo Penghlis.

Erika Slezak

Phil Carey

Frances Heflin

Beverlee McKinsey

Don Hastings

Benjamin Hendrickson (I loved how world-weary he sounded)

Maureen Garrett

Linda Dano

Charles Keating

Stephen Schnetzer (the best and sexiest voice ever)

Can you tell I watched a lot of P&G?

Edited June 27, 201411 yr by Faulkner

Cornelius Smith Jr.
Michael Easton
Debbi Morgan
Taylor Miller
Grant Alexander
Walt Willey
Tonya Pinkins
Jill Larson (Her real voice. Not Opal)

And I'm gonna say it even though it will get me flamed...

Eric Braeden

Beverlee McKinsey
Maureen Garrett

So much "hell yeah" to these two. Of course this makes me add Michael Zaslow to the list. He was such a great voice actor. He could convey anything Roger Thorpe was thinking with just the tone of his voice. That's why it seemed especially cruel to me that the ALS silenced him.

Edited June 27, 201411 yr by marceline

Robin Mattson

Robin Christopher

Robin Strasser

Jeanne Cooper

Jess Walton

Susan Flannery

Kimberlin Brown

Erika Slezak

Peter Bergman

Andrea Evans

Juliet Mills

Tracey Bregman (her current sounding voice)

Darlene Conley

Edited June 27, 201411 yr by YRfan23

I agree with a lot of the above-mentioned, but I'll also add:

George Reinholt

Helen Wagner

Eileen Fulton

Susan Lucci (especially 70s era Erica)

Bernard Barrow

Darlene Conley

Gail Brown

And here's my flame-risk: Kim Zimmer at her shrillest.

Edited June 27, 201411 yr by All My Shadows

Joseph Campanella, Thaao Penghlis and Joe Mascolo.

I always found James Mitchell's voice to be so soothing.

Nancy Addison Altman!!!!!

John Clarke

Lane Davies

Jess Walton

Elizabeth Hubbard

Phil Carey

Lauren Koslow

Erika Slezak

Florencia Lozano

Eric Martsolf