Susan Lucci

Known for ActingBorn 1946-12-23 (age 79)Scarsdale, New York, USA

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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Mafia Princess

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Welcome to Wrexham

The Bride in Black

Night of 100 Stars II

Army Wives

The Fall Guy

Hot in Cleveland

Higglytown Heroes

That's So Raven

Devious Maids

The Story of Soaps

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Generation Gap

Joy

Saturday Night Live

Jeopardy!

Dallas

Seduced and Betrayed

Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna

Blood on Her Hands

Difficult People

The Tony Danza Show

Deadly Affairs

Beat Bobby Flay

Dancing with the Stars

All My Children

The Love Boat

Haunted by Her Past

Outcome

It Takes a Lunatic

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Hope & Faith

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Mike Douglas Show

Me, Natalie

Young Doctors in Love

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Goodbye, Columbus

The Woman Who Sinned

Invitation to Hell

Tamron Hall

The Reichen Show

Lady Mobster

Ebbie

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing

Between Love and Hate