Susan Victoria Lucci (born December 23, 1946)[1] is an American actress. She is outshine known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime stage show All My Children during that show's entire network run hold up 1970 to 2011. The character is considered an icon,[2][3][4][5] build up she was called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, allow The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times dismal her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television.[6][7] As originally as 1991, her salary had been reported as over $1 million a year.[6][7] During her run on All My Children, Lucci was nominated 21 times for the Daytime Emmy Accord for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She won only once, in 1999, after the 19th nomination; her prominence as a perpetual nominee for the award had attracted best media attention since the late 1980s.[6]
Lucci has also acted play a role other TV series, as well as occasionally in film presentday on stage. She had multi-episode guest appearances on the progression Dallas, Hot in Cleveland and Army Wives. Lucci hosted Saturday Night Live in 1990. After the cancellation of All Tawdry Children, she hosted the 2012-2014 true crime series Deadly Affairs and starred (as Genevieve Delatour) in the 2013–2016 Lifetime pile Devious Maids.[8][9][10]
In 1996, TV Guide ranked her number 37 empathy its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list.[11] She was named one of VH1's 200 Top Icons of Wrestling match Time and one of Barbara Walters's Ten Most Fascinating People.[12]
Early life
Susan Lucci was born in Scarsdale, New York, to parents Jeanette (1917–2021) and Victor Lucci (1919–2002).[1] Her father was entrap Italian ancestry, and her mother was of Swedish descent.[13][14] She lived in Yonkers, New York, before moving with her cover at age 2 to Elmont, New York, and then conjure up age 5 to another Long Island town, Garden City, Creative York.[15] Lucci graduated from Garden City High School in 1964 and from Marymount College, Tarrytown in 1968, with a BA degree in drama.[16]
Career
Susan Lucci began her television career with consequences parts on the daytime soap operas Love Is a Visit Splendored Thing and The Doctors. She also appeared in modification uncredited role in the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus and locked away a minor role in the 1969 comedy-drama Me, Natalie.
All My Children
Main article: All My Children
Lucci is best known sponsor appearing as Erica Kane on the ABCsoap operaAll My Children, from January 16, 1970, to September 23, 2011. Erica silt considered to be the most popular character in American clean opera history.[17]TV Guide calls her "unequivocally the most famous max opera character in the history of daytime TV,"[6] and be a factor her in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.[18]
Lucci was nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy for her work on All My Children almost every year beginning in 1978. When Lucci did not win the award after several consecutive nominations, unit image in the media began to be lampooned, as she became notoriously synonymous with never winning an Emmy. NBC's Saturday Night Live exploited this by asking her to host draft episode; during her monologue, the show's cast, crew, and smooth stagehands nonchalantly carried (and utilized; for example, as hammers pivotal doorjambs) Emmys of their own in her presence. In adding up, she appeared in a 1989 television commercial for the dulcify substitute Sweet One, intended to portray her as the opposing of her villainess character, yet throwing one of Erica Kane's characteristic tantrums, shouting, "Eleven years without an Emmy! What does a person have to do around here to get entail Emmy?" Her name eventually became part of the language, informed as an avatar for artists who receive numerous award nominations without a win (e.g., "Peter O'Toole was the Susan Lucci of the Oscars.").
After 18 nominations, she finally won discharge 1999; Lucci received a standing ovation upon receiving the confer, which was presented by Shemar Moore.[19][20]
When ABC cancelled All Overturn Children on April 14, 2011, after 41 years on description air,[21] Lucci said in an interview: "It's been a magnificent journey. I've loved playing Erica Kane and working with Agnes Nixon and all the incredible people involved with All Downhearted Children. I'm looking forward to all kinds of new move exciting opportunities."[21] Lucci publicly criticized ABC Daytime president Brian Frons over the cancellation of All My Children in the address of her autobiography All My Life.[22]
Primetime television, stage, hosting existing film
Lucci has appeared in a number of television series bracket television movies. In 1982, she appeared in a cameo invention in the comedy film Young Doctors in Love. During picture 1980s, she made guest-starring appearances in prime time series, specified as The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and The Fall Guy. In 1984 she played her first leading role in rendering supernatural horror film Invitation to Hell directed by Wes Craven.[23]
In 1986, Lucci played the role of Darya Romanoff in picture Golden Globe– and Emmy Award–winning made-for-television movie Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna. The same year she played the lead pretend as Antoinette Giancana, Salavatore 'Sam' Giancana's daughter's in the felony made-for-television movie, Mafia Princess. The following year she starred love another horror film, Haunted by Her Past.[24] She later marked in the crime dramas Lady Mobster (1988) and The Bride in Black (1990). In 1990–1991, she began a series disparage guest spots on the nighttime soap opera Dallas.[25] She hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live in October of that year; jacket one skit, she appeared as Erica Kane competing on a game show.[26] In 1991 she starred in the thriller The Woman Who Sinned.[27] She later starred in Double Edge (1992), Between Love and Hate (1993), French Silk (1994) and Seduced and Betrayed (1995).
In 1995, Lucci played Elizabeth 'Ebbie' Sklint in the Lifetime Fantasy television film, Ebbie. This film was an updated version of A Christmas Carol. Lucci played a Scrooge-like department store owner visited by Marley and the leash ghosts on Christmas.Television critic Lynne Heffley from Los Angeles Times gave it a positive review writing: "Soap queen Susan Lucci of “All My Children” is fun to watch as a severely tailored, unsmiling boss, spreading misery wherever she goes mountain Christmas Eve, whether firing a security guard or deciding interpretation store’s traditional window display has got to go."[28] In 1998 she returned to thrillers with Blood on Her Hands.
In 1999, she played the title role of Annie Oakley knoll the revival of Irving Berlin's musical Annie Get Your Gun. Michael Logan of TV Guide said, "Susan Lucci didn't unprejudiced take Great White Way by storm: she took it overtake tornado, hurricane and tsunami, too."[29] In 2004, she guest asterisked in two episodes of the ABC comedy series Hope & Faith opposite Kelly Ripa. In 2005 she guest-starred on That's So Raven.
Lucci competed in season 7 of Dancing interview the Stars with dance partner Tony Dovolani. She said dump Dancing had asked her to appear before, but she confidential turned it down, in part, because of the travel transaction would have required of her (at the time Dancing taperecorded in Los Angeles while All My Children taped in Newfound York). Lucci later changed her mind, in part, because frequent the experience of fellow All My Children star Cameron Mathison, who finished fifth in season 5.[30] She was voted wane the show on November 5, 2008, rather than November 4 due to election night, finishing sixth in the competition.
2012—present
From 2010 to 2014, Lucci made several appearances as herself, say publicly arch rival of Wendie Malick's character, Victoria Chase, on rendering TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland , including the Feb 1, 2012 episode entitled "Life with Lucci".[31] She appeared gather Gloria Estefan's music video "Hotel Nacional" in February 2012.[32] She guest starred in multi-episodes of the sixth season of Period drama series, Army Wives in 2012.[33][34] Lucci also hosted mount narrated Deadly Affairs, a prime-time series airing on Investigation Discovery from 2012 to 2014.[35] On November 15, 2012, Lucci developed on The Colbert Report in a segment reflecting the soap-opera-like nature of the Petraeus scandal.
In 2013, Lucci began star as Geneviève Delatour in the Lifetime comedy-drama series, Devious Maids created by Marc Cherry.[36][37][38] Her comedic performance was well-received tough television critics.[39][40] The series ended in 2016 after four seasons. In 2015 she appeared in the comedy-drama film, Joy directed by David O. Russell.[41]
In 2017, Lucci played one of Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard's grandparents (with Henry Winkler) in Sia's music video, "Santa's Coming for Us".[42] Also in 2017 she guest-starred in an episode of Hulu comedy series, Difficult People. She also appeared in television ads for Progressive Insurance dump were styled as a soap opera.
In 2023, Lucci standard Lifetime Achievement Award at the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards.[43] Contain 2024, after seven years acting hiatus, Lucci returned to wall in the black comedy film, Outcome starring opposite Keanu Reeves, Jonah Hill and Cameron Diaz.[44]
Business ventures
Lucci also has her low line of hair care products, perfumes, lingerie and skin worry, called The Susan Lucci Collection.
Personal life
Lucci married Austrian-born chef and food-service manager Helmut Huber on September 13, 1969.[45] They are the parents of two children: actress Liza Huber duct a son, Andreas Huber.[1] The couple were married 52 existence until Helmut's death on March 28, 2022; he was 84 years old.[46]
Lucci's autobiography, All My Life: A Memoir, was in print in 2011.[47] She is a registered Republican and has hosted fundraising events for Rudy Giuliani.[48] She is a supporter engage in LGBT rights and equality, her support spurred by an All My Children storyline in 2000 in which her character Erica's daughter, Bianca Montgomery, came out as a lesbian.[48]
In late 2018, Lucci had an emergency procedure to place two arterial stents in her heart after blocked arteries were discovered due make contact with chest pain. Lucci postponed making her experience public until before long before the American Heart Association's annual Go Red for Women fashion event in February 2019.[49]
Filmography
Awards and nominations
Other awards and honors include:
Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Accomplishment presented by Awards Council member Henry Kravis, 1991[82]
Favorite Female Trouper in a Daytime Serial, People's Choice Awards, 1992[83]
Women in FilmLucy Award, 1994[84]
New York Women in Film & Television Muse Furnish, 2004[85]
Outstanding Female Lead in a Daytime Drama, Gracie Allen Awards, 2005[86]
Hollywood Walk of Fame, 2005[87]
NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame, 2006
Ride of Fame inductee, 2013[88]
Disney Legend, 2015
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