Where the Stars of ‘All My Children’ Are Today
Susan Lucci – Then
Although creator Agnes Nixon centered All My Children around teenager Erica Kane from Pine Valley, a fictional Philadelphia suburb, actress Susan Lucci began playing the character when she was 24. Lucci smashed it in the role, and TV Guide magazine called her “unequivocally the most famous soap opera character in the history of daytime TV.”
Susan Lucci earned a cool $1 million per season and was nominated a whopping 21 times for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. That said, she only won once!
Susan Lucci – Now
Now approaching 80, the glamorous actress married Austrian-born chef Helmut Huber in 1969 and had two children, actress Liza Huber and son Andreas Huber. The couple was married for 52 years until Helmut sadly passed away in 2022, aged 84.
Susan also appeared in the original Dallas and played Annie Oakley in Irving Berlin’s musical Annie Get Your Gun. Most recently, you may have seen Lucci strutting her stuff in season seven of Dancing with the Stars. She finished fifth.
Kelly Ripa – Then
In 1990, producers cast Kelly Ripa in her first major acting role as AMC’s troubled party girl, Hayley Vaughan. She would go on to play the character for two decades. When she met fellow actor Mark Consuelos in 1994, it was love even before first sight!
AMC’s casting director showed her Mark’s headshot, at which point Kelly fell head over heels in love with him. Kelly explained, “When I saw him… the photograph of him, I saw my entire future with him flash… I saw it.”
Kelly Ripa – Now
Since AMC, Ripa has appeared on shows like Hannah Montana, 30 Rock, Broad City, and Nashville. In 2019, Kelly and Mark even made a memorable cameo on Riverdale.
These days, she’s best known to American audiences as a morning TV show host, first on Live With Regis and Kelly starting in 2001, then with Ryan Seacrest, and now the flirty couple host Live With Kelly and Mark. Nowadays, the lucky couple lives in a $27 million New York townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side!
ABC soap opera All My Children premiered in January 1970, and its beloved characters and daring storylines captured audiences’ hearts for 41 years until 2011. Many famous actors, including a Marvel Superhero and a Vampire Slayer, got their start on the show. Now, almost 15 years after the show ended, we find out what Pine Valley’s famous residents are up to today.