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Susan Lucci
ActorBorn December 23, 1946 (78 years)
Susan Victoria Lucci 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.
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.
Filmography
| 2025 | SNL50: The Homecoming Concert · as Self - Audience Member |
| 2024 | |
| 2023 | Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love · as Self - Guest |
| 2022 | Sherri (2022) (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2022 | Welcome to Wrexham (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Generation Gap (TV Series) · as Self - Celebrity Guest |
| 2022 | The 49th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2022 | The Good Dish (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2021 | Nick Cannon (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | GMA3: What You Need to Know (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2019 | It Takes a Lunatic · as Self |
| 2019 | Tamron Hall (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2018 | The '90s Greatest (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2018 | Strahan, Sara & Keke (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2018 | The 80's Greatest (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris (TV Series) · as Self - Guest, My Diary |
| 2014 | The Meredith Vieira Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | Beat Bobby Flay (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's · as Self |
| 2012 | Oprah: Where Are They Now? (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2012 | Home & Family (TV Series) · as Self - Guest Co-Hostess |
| 2012 | Katie (2012) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2012 | Steve Harvey (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | Big Morning Buzz Live (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2010 | Long Island Medium (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2010 | The Talk (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2010 | The Nate Berkus Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2010 | The 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards · as Self |
| 2010 | Hot in Cleveland (TV Series) · as Susan Lucci |
| 2009 | The Dr. Oz Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | The 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards · as Self |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2008 | 2008 American Music Awards · as Self |
| 2008 | The Wendy Williams Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | Paula's Party (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | Rachael Ray (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | The 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards · as Self |
| 2005 | The Reichen Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | Infanity (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | The Apprentice - Martha Stewart (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | The Martha Stewart Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | Dancing with the Stars (TV Series) · as Self - Contestant |
| 2005 | Hell's Kitchen (US) (TV Series) · as Self - Restaurant Patron |
| 2005 | Showbiz Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Insider (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Tony Danza Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Daytime's Greatest Weddings · as Self - Host |
| 2004 | The Apprentice (US) (TV Series) · as Self - Special Guest |
| 2003 | The Award Show Awards Show · as Self |
| 2003 | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2003 | Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 | ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration · as Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (TV Series) · as Self - Celebrity Question Presenter |
| 2001 | The 28th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards · as Self |
| 2000 | The 54th Annual Tony Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2000 | The 27th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards · as Self - Hostess |
| 2000 | The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self |
| 1999 | The 26th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1998 | Hollywood Squares (TV Series) · as Self - Center Square |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | The 25th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1997 | The View (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | Access Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | All About Erica · as Self - Host |
| 1994 | Extra (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | Sidewalks Entertainment (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1993 | WWE Raw (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1991 | Maury (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1990 | Night of 100 Stars III · as Self |
| 1990 | Intimate Portrait (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1988 | The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards · as Self |
| 1987 | Win, Lose or Draw (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | Biography (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1986 | The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1986 | The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | Night of 100 Stars II · as Self |
| 1984 | Jeopardy! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1984 | TV Bloopers And Practical Jokes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1980 | Hour Magazine (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1974 | Dinah! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1973 | The $10,000 Pyramid (TV Series) · as Self - Celebrity Contestant |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self - Actress |
| 1967 | The Phil Donahue Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |