Susan Lucci
Acting • Born 1946-12-23
Biography
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 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.
Filmography
60 credits
Goodbye, Columbus
Movie • 1969
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Movie • 2023
Self - Guest
Invitation to Hell
Movie • 1984
Jessica Jones
Ebbie
Movie • 1995
Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge
Seduced and Betrayed
Movie • 1995
Victoria Landers
The Woman Who Sinned
Movie • 1991
Victoria Robeson
French Silk
Movie • 1994
Claire Laurent
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie • 1990
Self
Haunted by Her Past
Movie • 1987
Karen Beckett aka Katherine Raymond
Young Doctors in Love
Movie • 1982
Susan Lucci (uncredited)
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie • 1985
Self
Outcome
Movie • 2026
Dinah Hawk
Joy
Movie • 2015
Danica
Mafia Princess
Movie • 1986
Antoinette Giancana
Lady Mobster
Movie • 1988
Laurel Castle
The Bride in Black
Movie • 1990
Rose D'Amore-Malloy
Blood on Her Hands
Movie • 1998
Isabelle Collins
Between Love and Hate
Movie • 1993
Vivian Conrad
Double Edge
Movie • 1992
Maggie Dutton / Carmen Moore
It Takes a Lunatic
Movie • 2019
Self
The Story of Soaps
Movie • 2020
Self
Me, Natalie
Movie • 1969
Cheerleader
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Movie • 2003
Self
All My Children
TV • 1970
Erica Kane / Jane Campbell
Higglytown Heroes
TV • 2004
Hope & Faith
TV • 2003
Jacqueline Karr
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Paula Hastings
Tamron Hall
TV • 2019
Self - Guest
That's So Raven
TV • 2003
Charlotte Romano
The Fall Guy
TV • 1981
Dallas
TV • 1978
Sheila Foley / Hillary Taylor
Dallas
TV • 1978
Sheila Foley / Hilary Michaels
Dallas
TV • 1978
Hillary Taylor
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
TV • 1967
Devious Maids
TV • 2013
Genevieve Delatour
Hot in Cleveland
TV • 2010
Susan Lucci
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Dancing with the Stars
TV • 2005
Self - Contestant
Generation Gap
TV • 2022
Self - Celebrity Guest
Welcome to Wrexham
TV • 2022
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Tony Danza Show
TV • 2004
Self
The Reichen Show
TV • 2005
Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self
All My Children
TV • 1970
Erica Kane
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Sherri
TV • 2022
Self - Guest
Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love
TV • 2021
Narrator (voice)
Deadly Affairs
TV • 2012
Host
Entertainment Tonight
TV • 1981
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
TV • 1986
Darya Romanoff
Beat Bobby Flay
TV • 2013
Self
Difficult People
TV • 2015
Shelley Waxman
Army Wives
TV • 2007
Audrey Whitaker
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self (uncredited)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest