Susan Lucci
Born: 1946-12-23 in Scarsdale, New York, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2023
- Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love as Self - Guest
2022
- Sherri as Self - Guest
- Welcome to Wrexham as Self
- Generation Gap as Self - Celebrity Guest
2021
- Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love as Narrator (voice)
2020
- The Story of Soaps as Self
2019
- Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- It Takes a Lunatic as Self
2015
- Joy as Danica
- Difficult People as Shelley Waxman
2013
- Beat Bobby Flay as Self
- Devious Maids as Genevieve Delatour
2012
- Deadly Affairs as Host
2010
- Hot in Cleveland as Susan Lucci
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2007
- Army Wives as Audrey Whitaker
2005
- Dancing with the Stars as Self - Contestant
- The Reichen Show as Self
2004
- The Tony Danza Show as Self
- Higglytown Heroes
2003
- That's So Raven as Charlotte Romano
- Hope & Faith as Jacqueline Karr
1998
- Blood on Her Hands as Isabelle Collins
1997
- The View as Self
1996
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self
1995
- Ebbie as Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge
- Seduced and Betrayed as Victoria Landers
1994
- French Silk as Claire Laurent
1993
- Intimate Portrait as Self
- Between Love and Hate as Vivian Conrad
1992
- Double Edge as Maggie Dutton / Carmen Moore
1991
- The Woman Who Sinned as Victoria Robeson
1990
- Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- The Bride in Black as Rose D'Amore-Malloy
1988
- Lady Mobster as Laurel Castle
1987
- Haunted by Her Past as Karen Beckett aka Katherine Raymond
1986
- Mafia Princess as Antoinette Giancana
- Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna as Darya Romanoff
1985
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984
- Invitation to Hell as Jessica Jones
1982
- Young Doctors in Love as Susan Lucci (uncredited)
1981
- The Fall Guy
- Entertainment Tonight as Self
1978
- Dallas as Sheila Foley / Hillary Taylor
1977
- The Love Boat as Paula Hastings
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1970
- All My Children as Erica Kane / Jane Campbell
1969
- Goodbye, Columbus as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Me, Natalie as Cheerleader
1962
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self