General Hospital Preview: As Jason Dares to Go There With Sonny, [Spoiler]’s Knocked Down… for the Count? (2024)

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<p>This three-time Emmy winner needn’t toot his own horn (though, as you can see, he could): He rocks the house as Sonny Corinthos, the “Teflon don” around whom most of Port Charles’ action swirls.</p>

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<p>We’ll drink to that: This three-time Emmy winner stirs the pot as femme fatale Ava Jerome, whose exit from the Mob hasn’t done <span style="text-decoration: line-through">a whole lot</span> diddly to keep her out of harm’s way.</p>

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<p>This two-time Emmy winner brings (back) to life Jason Morgan, a Mafia hitman seen here in his natural state: <span style="text-decoration: line-through">regretting that burrito</span> nursing a bullet wound. Dude has been shot more often than a supermodel. (Get it?)</p>

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<p>Serving attitude as well as coffee, this Emmy winner kicks butt as Carly Spencer, who is not only the owner of <span style="text-decoration: line-through">Kelly’s</span> Bobbie’s Diner but used to run the Metro Court hotel and, for a hot second, was the editor-in-chief of <em>Crimson</em> magazine.</p>

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<p>The <em>All My Children</em> vet turns up the heat as Jason’s twin brother, Drew Cain. Yes, <em>twin.</em> There was a whole reconstructive-surgery thing that went down. (Don’t ask!)</p>

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<p>The fan favorite dresses to impress as Sonny’s firstborn, Dante Falconeri, a police detective who has the misfortune of fighting crime in a town that’s run by the underworld.</p>

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<p>The <em>Dancing With the Stars</em> champ always lands on her feet as Jaclyn of all trades Sam McCall, who only ditched her black-black-nothing-but-black wardrobe after trading husband Jason for boyfriend Dante.</p>

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<p>This MVP is General Hospital’s head nurse, Elizabeth Webber, a dyed-in-the-wool sweetheart who knows that nothing pairs better with sympathy than tea.</p>

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<p>The actor who was previously John McBain, Silas Clay and Caleb Morley is now Liz’s significant other, Hamilton Finn, a doctor no one seems to notice looks exactly like all of those other guys.</p>

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<p>This heartthrob makes pulses race as Curtis Ashford, a former P.I. who now searches for customers instead of clues as the proprietor of hot spot The Savoy.</p>

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<p>An alum of <em>Passions</em>, Kerr scrubs in as Dr. Portia Robinson, whose marriage to Curtis has now and again needed more than just an Rx for TLC to keep it off the critical list.</p>

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<p>This ingenue pours her heart and soul into Curtis and Portia’s daughter, Trina Robinson, a plucky heroine who is followed more closely by anguish than even her own shadow.</p>

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<p>Maybe Trina will perk up when this Emmy winner returns from <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/comings-and-goings/715750/spencer-last-episode-nicholas-chavez-leaving/" target="_blank">making a miniseries</a> to reprise his role of her boyfriend, Spencer Cassadine, who was presumed dead after getting lost at sea while going for the wet look.</p>

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<p>The oft-recast role of Spencer’s estranged father has most recently been played by Adam Huss, who stepped in before Marcus Coloma’s run as the conniving Greek prince had quite ended. (<a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/695161/why-did-marcus-coloma-leave-nikolas/" target="_blank">Here’s why.</a>)</p>

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<p>The twins play Ace, the bundle of joy who was conceived when Nikolas — much to the chagrin of then-wife Ava! — fell prey to the charms of Spencer’s ill-fated ex-lover, Esme Prince. (Got all that?)</p>

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<p>This Emmy winner strikes terror into the hearts of Port Charles’ residents as Esme’s vengeful mother, card-carrying homicidal maniac and BLT aficionado Heather Webber.</p>

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<p>This Emmy-winning soap legend is the one and only Laura Collins, the former teenage troublemaker who has matured into the seen-it-all mayor of Port Charles.</p>

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<p>This soap-hopper is Laura’s better half, Kevin Collins, a shrink whose evil twin Ryan Chamberlain once gave Port Charles almost as many goosebumps (and corpses!) as his babymama, Heather.</p>

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<p>A <em>General Hospital</em> icon, Shriner is crafty attorney Scotty Baldwin, who’s never forgiven Sonny for turning his late daughter Karen Wexler into a drug-addicted stripper. Go figure.</p>

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<p>The real face of Deception, cosmetics executive Lucy Coe is the venerable vixen played by Shriner’s on-again/off-again leading lady. How she ever passed herself off as a mousy librarian, we’ll never understand!</p>

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<p><em>All My Children</em>’s erstwhile “Tad the Cad” Martin now moves from one fine mess into another as Laura’s half brother, Martin Gray, a barrister whose favorite thing to do with the law is bend it.</p>

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<p>This primetime mainstay lends his gravitas to the role of Martin and Laura’s brother, Cyrus Renault, a career criminal and dedicated man of God. Mm-hmm. Sure, Jan.</p>

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<p>This Emmy winner reminds us on the daily why she’s award-worthy as Sonny’s latest ex, Nina Reeves, whose efforts to walk the straight and narrow often lead her down a very crooked path.</p>

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<p>A familiar face from primetime, Stuart sketches in shades of gray as Valentin Cassadine, whose feelings for lost love Nina have lingered long after their relationship’s expiration date.</p>

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<p>Though blessed with a vast and versatile career, this Emmy winner will always be best known as Anna Devane, the former WSB double agent who now punches the clock as the police commissioner of Port Charles.</p>

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<p>This Australian-born vet plays Anna’s ex-husband, Robert Scorpio, a former WSB operative who, thanks to a Fast Pass through law school when we weren’t looking, has become Port Charles’ district attorney.</p>

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<p>A recurring player on <em>General Hospital</em> since she was a lil’ kid, this fan favorite revisits Port Charles on occasion as Robert and Anna’s granddaughter, Emma, who moved West with her folks, Drs. Robin and Patrick Drake.</p>

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<p>This<em> General Hospital</em> newcomer is making waves as an old character, federal agent Jagger Cates, who is no longer brunet, no longer calls himself Jagger (it’s John now, thanks) and no longer hates Sonny. Wait, no, <em>that</em>, he still does.</p>

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<p>This former <em>Project Runway</em> model keeps a watchful eye on Port Charles as Jordan Ashford, who is not only Curtis’ ex and TJ’s mom but the beleaguered city’s deputy mayor.</p>

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<p>The romcom star handles arrested developments as Finn’s brother, Harrison Chase, a PCPD detective who nearly followed in Frisco Jones’ footsteps to become a cop rocker.</p>

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<p>Late of <em>One Life to Live</em>, Setton keeps it real as headstrong Brook Lynn Quartermaine, the songwriting scion of exes Ned Quartermaine and Lois Cerullo. More on them in a moment…</p>

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<p>A treasure in a string of pearls, this <em>General Hospital</em> luminary adds a touch of class — and a whole dollop of sass — to every scene as Brook Lynn’s sharp-tongued granny, Tracy Quartermaine.</p>

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<p>Fresh from her stint on <em>Bold & Beautiful</em>, Sofer “nails” it as Brook Lynn’s mom, Lois, who once upon a time ran L&B Records with Sonny’s old flame, Brenda Barrett. <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/comings-and-goings/715885/vanessa-marcil-back-brenda/" target="_blank">Maybe history will repeat itself.</a></p>

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<p>Since 1991, the <em>Days of Our Lives</em> leading man has had a second home in Port Charles, where he plays ELQ boss Ned Ashton and, depending on his level of amnesia, sometimes Eddie Maine, the pop idol named for his late grandpa.</p>

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<p>This soap-hopper is Ned’s better half, Olivia Falconeri, who is from time to time half of Port Charles’ landlady, owing to the fact that she co-owns the Metro Court hotel with Nina.</p>

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<p>Like the character he plays, Olivia and <span style="text-decoration: line-through">Julian Jerome’s</span> Ned’s son Leo, this scene-stealing <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/618942/general-hospital-wally-kurth-son-leo-easton-rocket-sweda-autism/" target="_blank">teen has autism</a> — and, presumably, can recite the recipe for a Sicilian Thunderbolt from memory.</p>

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<p>No need to check your phone, kids. We can tell you that Carr (left) plays Rocco Falconeri, Dante’s son with his comatose ex-wife, Laura’s daughter Lulu. Antonyzyn is Danny Morgan, Sam’s son with unkillable ex-husband Jason.</p>

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<p>This youngster bakes up a storm of emotions as Aiden, Liz’s son with her MIA ex-husband, Laura’s middle child Lucky Spencer. Just this past Christmas, <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/711552/aiden-gay-liz-son-comes-out/" target="_blank">Aiden came out to his mom</a> in one of the soap’s all-time sweetest scenes.</p>

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<p>We probably don’t have to tell you that this star on the rise plays Liz and Jason’s son, Jake Spencer, do we? The hair, the black T-shirt, the brooding expression… his character was obvious!</p>

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<p>Cameron Webber, Liz’s son with the late Zander Smith, is away at college — for now. Lipton could always reprise his role when he’s not <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/comings-and-goings/719488/william-lipton-outer-banks-runarounds-new-series/" target="_blank">busy with his new series</a>.</p>

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<p>Through a series of circ*mstances too bizarre to explain, Fernandez plays Charlotte Cassadine, the increasingly worrisome daughter of Valentin and Lulu. Yes, Lulu. (<em>Told</em> ya the circ*mstances were bizarre.)</p>

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<p>Speaking of Lulu, this veteran of <em>Young & Restless</em> and <em>Guiding Light</em> was playing Laura’s daughter with late ex-husband Luke Spencer when she nodded off for the longest nap this side of Rip Van Winkle. And when she wakes up? <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/comings-and-goings/688822/does-lulu-wake-up/" target="_blank">Here’s what Rylan says.</a></p>

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<p>This pint-sized powerhouse plays Violet Finn, the daughter of (well, duh) Finn and Liz’s half sister, Hayden Barnes. Which, considering that Liz is now dating Finn, would make things #awkward <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/660106/is-general-hospital-rebecca-budig-returning-as-hayden/" target="_blank">if Hayden ever came back</a>.</p>

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<p>Blossoming before our eyes on screen are Spears, who plays Sonny and Carly’s daughter, Donna Corinthos, and Scarola, who is her older half sister, Sonny and Ava’s daughter, Avery Jerome. (Hope these kids are good at fractions, ’cause they have a <em>lot</em> of half siblings!)</p>

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<p>Unless the characters are hit with a case of Soap-Opera Rapid-Aging Syndrome before you read this, Maxie’s kids — Georgie (with former non-husband Spinelli) and James (with late husband Nathan West) — are played by Harker and Fuller.</p>

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<p>This Emmy winner never phones it in — ha, see what we did there? — as Michael Corinthos, who is part Quartermaine (thanks to late biodad A.J.), part Mafia (thanks to adoptive dad Sonny) and every bit as impulsive as mom Carly.</p>

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<p>We’d need to sit down, too, if like MacMullen has, we’d taken Michael’s bride, Willow Tait, from former cult member to schoolteacher to aspiring nurse to, most challenging of all, Nina’s surprise daughter.</p>

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<p>This adorable towhead takes the cake — or the pudding in this picture — as Wiley Quartermaine, Michael’s son with Willow’s hateful late twin sister, Nelle Benson.</p>

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<p>This beloved vet seems to find herself in one adventure after another as Aztec princess Felicia Jones. Come to think of it, maybe that’s where daughter Maxie gets her aptitude for chaos.</p>

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<p>We always knew that this <em>General Hospital</em> mainstay’s alter ego — Robert’s stalwart kid brother, Mac Scorpio — was endgame for Felicia. It just took her a decade or so to catch up with us.</p>

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<p>This <em>One Life to Live</em> alum swings from Mac’s family tree as rascally Cody Bell, the son (with Scotty’s late wife, Dominique Baldwin) that no one in Port Charles even knew existed until he splashed down in the Metro Court pool.</p>

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<p>Enjoy the smile while it lasts. On screen, Mattsson rarely gets to use it, as Deception model Sasha Gilmore has a tendency to survive one terrible heartache only to be faced with another.</p>

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<p>With a mischievous flourish, Dorkin makes Amy Driscoll a good nurse and an even better gossip. The former author of the Ask Man Landers advice column is also ace at telling people what to do.</p>

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<p>This veteran of <em>The Fresh Beat Band</em> spreads sunshine around General Hospital even on rainy days as Nurse Deanna Sirtis.</p>

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<p>This two-time Emmy winner (center) drives plot as hell-on-wheels former attorney Alexis Davis. (Seriously, get her a Lyft.) The recovering alcoholic is the mother of Kristina (left, with former client Sonny), Sam (right, with Julian Jerome) and Molly (with ex-husband Ric Lansing).</p>

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<p>Yup, even out of the scrubs and lab coat that he usually wears as Jordan’s son with Shawn Butler, TJ Ashford, Bellow leaves us thinking about “playing doctor.”</p>

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<p>After a series of rapid-fire recasts, this soap newbie landed the part of future RBG Molly Lansing, who is TJ’s partner, Alexis’ youngest child and, with her significant other, soon to be a parent herself.</p>

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<p>This <em>Days of Our Lives</em> Emmy winner (right) stepped into the role of Sonny and Alexis’ daughter in 2023, just in time for Kristina to act as a surrogate for sis Molly and beau TJ.</p>

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<p>It was music to our ears the day we heard that <em>General Hospital</em> had major story planned for this standout’s Blaze, aka Alison Rogers. Her romance with Kristina keeps us humming love songs all the day long.</p>

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<p>What a “get”! To play Blaze’s disapproving mother, Natalia, <em>General Hospital</em> scored no less than this Emmy winner, who made such a lasting impression on <em>All My Children</em> as Dr. Maria Santos.</p>

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<p>This former child star brings to vivacious life Maxie Jones, the fashion-plate Deception exec that everybody wants planning their wedding (even though the ceremonies never seem to go off without a hitch!).</p>

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<p>Hacking into our hearts as computer whiz Damian Spinelli, arguably Maxie’s soulmate, if not also Jason’s, is fan fave Anderson, who’s been navigating his character’s complex patoir since 2006.</p>

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<p>This two-time Emmy winner, a primetime legend who’s been on everything from <em>The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air</em> to its reboot <em>Bel-Air</em>, tells it like it is as Curtis’ take-no-prisoners Aunt Stella Henry.</p>

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<p>This Emmy winner is Marshall Ashford, Curtis’ hat-loving father who was for so many years believed to be deceased. Although why anyone in Port Charles <em>ever</em> thinks people die for real is a mystery!</p>

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<p>Seeing red? Chances are, you’re also seeing Hennesey, who slays all day as Diane Miller, the Mob’s attorney of choice and also the show’s go-to when an episode needs a little extra bite.</p>

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<p>Make room for Daddy! Primetime’s erstwhile Gonzo Gates is now Gregory Chase, the father of Finn and Chase and, we can’t help but hope, a prospective love interest for Tracy.</p>

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<p>Oh, that’s cold — and we don’t mean the drink, either. Look gives us delicious chills as Selina Wu, a Mafia queenpin with ice in her veins and advancement on her agenda.</p>

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<p>This fan favorite returned to the soap when lab tech <span style="text-decoration: line-through">Bradley</span> Brad Cooper was sprung from prison after an unfortunate baby-swapping incident. Now we’re just waiting for Aunt Selina to “encourage” him more forcibly into the family biz.</p>

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<p>That’s one way to check for a heartbeat, sure. Now that we know that Nurse Felix DuBois still has one, maybe it’s time for Samuel’s alter ego to reconsider getting involved with Brad. He’s changed. Really, he has.</p>

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<p>Seeing this head-turner back on screen when Dr. Lucas Jones attended mom Bobbie Spencer’s funeral only made us want him to return full-time. Hasn’t he forgiven ex-husband Brad for passing off Wiley as their son yet?</p>

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<p>This newcomer was thrown into the deep end right from the start as Dex Heller, who made the mistake of conspiring with Michael to take down Sonny, the boss to whom the Jason wannabe is now altogether dedicated.</p>

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<p>This Emmy winner is Carly’s Mini-Me, strong-willed daughter Josslyn Jacks, who outgrew her relationship with Cam right around the same time Dex started hanging around the Metro Court pool.</p>

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<p>Making the rounds as General Hospital’s chief of staff Dr. Terry Randolph is the daytime drama’s first trans cast member, who <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/632779/general-hospital-cassandra-james-trailblazing-lonely-aapi-transgender-journey/" target="_blank">shares her experience as a trailblazer here</a>.</p>

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<p>That’s the actor on the bottom on the left looking like he can’t quite figure out how Terry’s sweetheart, bodyguard Yuri, got roped into taking part in Magic Milo’s Nurses Ball routine. A picture says a thousand words, hot stuff.</p>

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<p>This Canadian-born actress is so compelling, she managed to turn Dr. Liesl Obrecht from Cesar Faison’s equally nefarious henchwoman into a complicated heroine for whom we could feel when she lost both of her children (Nathan West and Britt Westbourne, left) as well as beau Scotty.</p>

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<p>Since 2016, the sportscaster and real-life pal of Benard’s has popped up now and then as Sonny’s trusted confidant, Brick. And yes, when you’ve got a name like Brick, one is all you need.</p>

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<p>Martin breathed a sigh of relief when his fearsome ex-wife, <em>One Life to Live</em>’s Blair Cramer, left Port Charles. But we have a feeling that we haven’t seen the last of the soap-hopper, and neither has he.</p>

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<p>The longest-running cast member on <em>General Hospital</em> has since 1977 reigned supreme as Dr. Monica Quartermaine, whose torrid history would make for one hell of a memoir. Actually, she could probably fill three!</p>