Susan Lucci

Susan Victoria Lucci 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 shows entire network run from 1970 to 2011 Previously she starred on the 60s 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 VH1s 200 Top Icons of All Time and one of Barbara Walterss 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 Daytimes Leading Lady by TV Guide with The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times citing her as the highestpaid actor in daytime television Lucci has also acted in other TV series as well as occasionally in film and on stage She had multiepisode 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 20122014 true crime series Deadly Affairs and narrated its offshoot Deadly Affairs Betrayed by Love She starred as Genevieve Delatour in the 20132016 Lifetime series Devious Maids