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.<\/p>\n
In 1996,\u00a0TV Guide\u00a0ranked Lucci number 37 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. She was named one of\u00a0VH1’s 200 Top Icons of All Time and one of\u00a0Barbara Walters’s Ten Most Fascinating People.<\/p>\n
During her run on\u00a0All My Children, she was nominated 21 times for the\u00a0Daytime 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\u00a0icon,\u00a0and Lucci was called “Daytime’s Leading Lady” by\u00a0TV Guide, with\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0and the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0citing her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Dallas,\u00a0Hot in Cleveland and\u00a0Army Wives. She hosted\u00a0Saturday Night Live\u00a0in 1990.<\/p>\n
After the cancellation of\u00a0All My Children, she hosted the 2012-2014\u00a0true crime series Deadly Affairs\u00a0and narrated its’ offshoot Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love. She starred as\u00a0Genevieve Delatour in the 2013-2016\u00a0Lifetime\u00a0series\u00a0Devious Maids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-31775","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n