Cast & creator
Susan Lucci
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show
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.
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film credits
39
television credits
63
1961–2026 · acting roles
5.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (63)
Showing 63 of 63 credits
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
1975
The View
Self
1997
Jeopardy!
Self
1984
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Dancing with the Stars
Self - Contestant
2005
Sherri
Self - Guest
2022
All My Children
Erica Kane / Jane Campbell
1970All My Children
Erica Kane
1970
The Love Boat
Paula Hastings
1977
Dallas
Sheila Foley / Hillary Taylor
1978Dallas
Sheila Foley / Hilary Michaels
1978Dallas
Hillary Taylor
1978
The Tamron Hall Show
Self - Guest
2019
The Talk
Self
2010
Army Wives
Audrey Whitaker
2007
Hot in Cleveland
Susan Lucci
2010
Intimate Portrait
Self
1993The Tony Danza Show
Self
2004
That's So Raven
Charlotte Romano
2003
Beat Bobby Flay
Self
2013The Reichen Show
Self
2005
The Fall Guy
1981
Devious Maids
Genevieve Delatour
2013
Hope & Faith
Jacqueline Karr
2003
Welcome to Wrexham
Self
2022
Difficult People
Shelley Waxman
2015
Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
Higglytown Heroes
2004
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self
1996
Outcome
Dinah Hawk
2026
Joy
Danica
2015
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
1967
Generation Gap
Self - Celebrity Guest
2022
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
Darya Romanoff
1986
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Self
2025
Young Doctors in Love
Susan Lucci (uncredited)
1982
Me, Natalie
Cheerleader
1969
Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love
Narrator (voice)
2021
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
1985
The Story of Soaps
Self
2020
Deadly Affairs
Host
2012
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Self
2003
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
1990
Invitation to Hell
Jessica Jones
1984
The Woman Who Sinned
Victoria Robeson
1991
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
2019
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Self - Guest
2023
Goodbye, Columbus
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1969
Blood on Her Hands
Isabelle Collins
1998
Haunted by Her Past
Karen Beckett aka Katherine Raymond
1987
The Bride in Black
Rose D'Amore-Malloy
1990
Lady Mobster
Laurel Castle
1988
Double Edge
Maggie Dutton / Carmen Moore
1992
Seduced and Betrayed
Victoria Landers
1995
Between Love and Hate
Vivian Conrad
1993
Mafia Princess
Antoinette Giancana
1986
Ebbie
Ebbie Scrooge
1995
French Silk
Claire Laurent
1994