OLTL: List of Characters, Part 1 (A - Gannon)
Jennifer Allyson Turner
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This list compiled with the help of:
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Michelle "Micki" Duncan
Vicki Farmer
Lynn-Anne Friese
Deborah Graham
Kate the Short
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Well, folks, it's that time again. I've decided to change the list
around a little and include as many characters as possible. There's no
longer the restraint that they have to be connected to someone currently
on the show. I *would*, however, like for everyone who submits a
character to provide as much background for that character as they can.
While I realize that this show has been on the air for 25 years, I don't
want to put a line or two behind each character name. Also, please try
to give me the name of the actor(s) who played the character.
Along those lines, if you'd like a character's history to be
expanded, just send me the material and you, too, can have your name up
there with other illustrious members of the OLTL net.family. And if
anyone knows any of the unidentified actors below, please tell me.
Thanks everyone for all of your help. Enjoy!
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List of Characters -- One Life to Live -- Part 1 (A - Gannon)
Mortimer 'Mort' Bern (Thom Christopher)
- archaeologist/egyptologist who came to town with an exhibit of
Cleopatra's jewels; he originally was a Mama's boy
- the jewels were stolen by Cain and Tina and planted in Alex's
penthouse where they were recovered
- hired by Alex Hesser to "become" her dead husband, Carlo, because of
his striking resemblance to the dead mob boss
- played Carlo to a T at a mob Halloween party and later had an affair
with Alex
- fell in love with Renee Buchanan and tried to get out of his deal
with Alex
- as an act of revenge, Alex made it look like Mortimer was really
Carlo Hesser
- he was abducted by a rival mob boss and nearly killed, but DA Hank
Gannon saved the day (along with Mortimer's mother, Wilma)
- was discovered to be the identical twin of Carlo Hesser, separated from
his brother a few months after birth
- left town when Renee refused his marriage proposal
Wilma Bern (Eileen Heckart, Elaine Stritch)
- mother of Mortimer and Carlo
- gave Carlo up for adoption when he showed tendencies toward evil at a
very young age
- came to town in search of Mort when he didn't show up back home in
Oklahoma
- made a deal with Alex Hesser to try and form Mort into Carlo
++- received Alex's diamond "A" as a payment
- saved Mort's life when he was kidnapped by the evil Gert Mulligan
Ursula Blackwell (Jill Larson)
- villainess extraordinaire
- was in love with Patrick and kidnapped Tina when she found out that
Tina was carrying his child
- later pushed Tina out of the lighthouse causing Tina to lose the baby
- blamed Tina for her father's death and later stalked her unsuccessfully
- planted a bomb in Tina's second wedding cake, but the bomb exploded
after the wedding was over, killing Steve Holden
- kidnapped Tina and Cord during a prison break; tried to electrocute
Tina but was unsuccessful
- currently serving out the remainder of her sentence in Statesville
Prison (or Mountainview Sanitarium; don't remember which)
Asa 'Jeb Stuart' Buchanan (Phil Carey)
[Assa]
- head of the Buchanan clan, father of Clint and Bo
- oil magnate and filthy rich, former owner of the Buchanan Palace hotel,
now owned by his ex-wife Renee
++- married seven times (and trying his hardest not to make that eight),
wife Olympia the mother of his two sons
- stood by and watched Wingate Holden (Max and Steve Holden's father) die
in order to get the mineral rights to his land
- believes in family first and last; can be insulting at times, but very
shrewd; not a good man to cross, evil temper
- has a weak heart
- had Maria Vasquez and her mother deported when he learned Maria was
pregnant with Clint's child (Cord)
- married to Samantha when his wife Olympia showed up
- later married Becky Lee when he learned that she was pregnant with Bo's
child: wanted to make sure his grandson carried the Buchanan name
- then married Delilah and divorced her
- was married to Pamela on the island of Malakeva, but she thought his
name was Jeb Stuart
- married Renee, but she left him when she thought he was having an
affair with Blair Daimler
++- while married to Renee was led to believe that Max was his son
++- Gabrielle produced (forged) letters from Max's mother proving
that Max was Asa's son
++- learned that Max wasn't his son after DuAnn Demerest was
murdered
- married Blair and paraded her around as his "trophy" wife; wanted her
to reproduce quickly so that he could have heirs (he had disinherited
both of his sons when they objected to his marriage to Blair)
- dumped Blair when he discovered that she had faked her pregnancy and
the subsequent miscarriage; ++also didn't take too kindly to the fact
that she tried to kill him by withholding his medication; took her
company away
- was hit on the head and nearly killed by Alex Olanov when she tried
to frame Tina for attempted murder
- is currently backing Alex Olanov's new nightclub; has mended fences
with both of his sons
++- tries to outdo Alex in everything
++- bet her that he could drink her under the table; won when his
butler, Nigel, gave him water instead of vodka
++- gave Alex a red porsche for Christmas
++- has a bet with Alex that she can't get him to propose by March 1
Austin Buchanan (David Gautreaux)
- Asa's nephew
- fell in love with Sarah, then tried to frame Bo by tampering with the
brakes on Michael Grande's car; Michael's wife, Alicia, was killed
instead and Bo was charged with murder
- raped Sarah when she tried to get evidence that he was framing Bo
- shot and killed by Sarah, body disposed of by Cord and Asa
Beauregard 'Bo' Buchanan (Robert S. Woods)
- Asa's younger son, has been married to Delilah, Didi O'Neill, Cassie
Callison, and Sarah Gordon; Didi and Sarah both died
- good-natured, fair, has a touch of the Buchanan temper but only when
extremely provoked, loyal to family and friends
- has a son, Drew, by Becky Lee
- now owns a chain of radio stations; former owner of a tv station and
former producer of the soap opera "Fraternity Row"; also former record
producer and race car driver; ++Vietnam vet
- after his wedding to Didi, they went on a tour of Europe and were
kidnapped by Elizabeth and Jamie Sanders; Patrick London underwent
plastic surgery and returned to Llanview in Bo's place
- eventually foiled Patrick and the Sanders' but Didi was killed in the
process
- married Sarah Gordon, then searched for her when she and Megan were
kidnapped; Megan was found in the Amish country, but Sarah was still
missing
- mourned when her plane lost contact then crashed
- had a short relationship with Alex Olanov, then married Cassie, but
Sarah returned on his wedding day
- agonized over it but finally chose Sarah
- grieved when Sarah was killed in a car crash
- tried to commit suicide by jumping from the ledge of his office at
The Banner
- Nora Gannon discovered him on the ledge and went to Viki and
Sloan for help
- Sloan talked him down from the ledge
- tried to find the driver of the car that killed Sarah
- Marty was the first person accused, but she proved that she was
trying to score drugs, not hitting-and-running that night
- next, Suede was accused, but he was proven innocent as well
- finally decided to end the search in order to preserve his
relationship with Nora
- currently engaged to Nora Gannon
- proved that Nora wasn't the driver of the car that killed Sarah
- learned that Nora was hiding her brain tumor from him
++- saved Nora from a revenge-seeking Todd
++- "killed" Todd in a struggle over Todd's gun; Todd fell into the water
and Bo jumped after him; Bo never found the body
Clinton 'Clint' Buchanan (Clint Ritchie)
- Asa's older son, has only been married to Viki Lord, but had an affair
with Echo di Savoy (around '83)
- has three sons and a daughter: Cord, Kevin, Joey, and Jessica
- son Cord is the result of a teenage affair with Maria Vasquez
- very loyal, very family-oriented; bad temper that sometimes gets the
better of him
- had an affair with Maria at the age of sixteen
- while he was away for the summer on a class trip, Asa found out
that Maria was pregnant and had her and her mother deported
- was brought in to be the managing editor of The Banner by a dying Joe
Riley; Viki hated him at first sight, then grew to love him after Joe's
death
- now Editor-in-Chief of The Banner
- was blinded when he was shot by Jamie Sanders; the doctors were unable
to remove the bullet fragment and thereby cure his blindness because it
was in such a vulnerable position that he would probably die on the
operating table
- hired a therapist for the blind (Sarah) to help him deal with his
blindness
- on the ranch in Arizona, George Vasquez put a burr under the saddle of
Clint's horse and Clint was thrown; when he woke up, he could see and
was back in the year 1888
- eventually came back to the present still able to see; the fall had
moved the bullet fragment so that it no longer pressed on his optical
nerve
- when he learned that his son's best friend was gay, he forbade Joey to
have any further contact with Billy Douglas
- he eventually came around and allowed Joey to remain friends with
Billy
- went on the rampage when Viki began making goo-goo eyes at Sloan
Carpenter, the new guy in town
- went to Arizona to deal with the anger and pain of rejection when
Viki told him she wanted a divorce
- was in a horrible plane crash on his way there (In real life, Clint
Ritchie was involved in a near-fatal tractor accident.)
- recently returned to Llanview
- at the last minute, he refused to sign the divorce papers; he told Viki
that he still loved her and couldn't give her up that easily; if she
wants a divorce, she'll have to sue
- saved Sloan from a couple of thugs who were beating him up as revenge
for "sexual harassment"
++- possible triangle with Renee and Larry
*Demarest 'Duke' Buchanan
- son of Kevin Buchanan and LeeAnn Demerest; born August, 1992
- involved in bitter custody battle at a few weeks of age
- resided in Sweetwater, Texas for nearly a year with his mother
++- came for a visit for Christmas
++- good friends with Jason Webb
Didi O'Neill Buchanan (++Barbara Treutelaar)
- O'Neill's were introduced during a labor dispute at The Banner
- Llanview's working class, Irish family
- daughter of Harry O'Neill, had two sisters
- fell in love with and married Bo Buchanan
- they went to Europe for their honeymoon; Bo returned a year later and
told everyone that he had split with Didi; it was later learned that
Bo and Didi were being held in a dungeon in a mansion not far from
Llanview and that the Bo in question was in actuality, Patrick London
- escaped with Bo and helped bring down Patrick and the Sanders'
- died when Bo pushed Patrick into an electric fence and Patrick pulled
her in
Jessica Buchanan (Erin Torpey)
- Clint and Viki's youngest child; born 1985
- very sweet and loyal
- was kidnapped by Maria shortly after her birth
- Maria tried to make it look like Niki Smith was the culprit, and no
one ever discovered her part in the plan
- accidentally burned Llanfair down one Halloween; was trapped in the
fire with CJ and Al but was saved by LeeAnn; LeeAnn was overcome by
the smoke and was in turn, saved by Matt Kingston (Max Holden)
- became friends with Marty Saybrooke while skipping school one day
- Marty helped her through some of the worst parts of her parents'
separation
- took piano lessons from Marty
- recently freaked out because she doesn't want her parents to get
divorced
Joseph 'Joey' Buchanan (++John Paul Learn, "Chris McKenna")
- very loyal, honest, dependable; stands by his friends
- his real father is Joe Riley but Clint adopted him and his older
brother Kevin, when they were toddlers; born 1978
- has suffered from asthma most of his life
- helped Kevin and Stephanie Hobart commandeer a boat to help them run
away from Stephanie's evil uncle Carlo
- the boat was caught in a storm
- they were forced to go back when Joey had an asthma attack and nearly
died
- when Stephanie and Kevin broke up, tried to bring them back together,
but failed; also played matchmaker with Kevin and Rachel and Cain and
Tina
- has had one relationship with Alana; tried to have a relationship with
Rebecca Lewis
++- is currently in Rome on exchange
Kevin Buchanan (++Ryan Jannis, Joey Thrower, "Kirk Geiger")
- oldest son of Viki and Joe Riley; born 1974?
- father of Duke
- loyal, honest, but holds a grudge
- was first involved with Lisa Porter
- the relationship ended when Alex (Lisa's legal guardian) sent her to
boarding school
- then became involved with Stephanie
- commandeered a boat with his younger brother's help to help Stephanie
run away from her uncle
- was forced to go back when Joey suffered an asthma attack
- broke up with Stephanie when she slept with Jason
- married LeeAnn Demarest when he learned that she was pregnant; he
didn't know that LeeAnn thought Max was the father of her baby
- when LeeAnn left him, he sued for custody and won; LeeAnn's lover,
Jason, kidnapped Duke and they went on the run; Kevin eventually
got Duke back, and pressed charges against Jason
- later, he told Jason that if he weren't with LeeAnn, she would
probably get partial custody of her son
- gave LeeAnn partial custody when Jason dumped her
- currently seeing Rachel Gannon
- was accused of rape by Marty Saybrooke and hired Nora to defend him
- Marty eventually remembered what had really happened and withdrew
her accusations
- Kevin helped Marty find the evidence that proved that Todd Manning,
Zach Rosen, and Powell Lord had raped her
++- planning to move into a new apartment with Rachel
Olympia Buchanan (?)
- mother of Clint and Bo
- Asa's first wife
- was institutionalized by Asa and he pretended that she was dead for
years
- she showed up in town when Asa was (bigamously) married to
Samantha
Renee Devine Buchanan (Phyllis Newman, "Patricia Elliot")
- former call girl turned madam
- was in love with Carlo Hesser in her earlier days, but fell out of love
when he became a gangster
++- married Asa
++- blackmailed by DuAnn Demerest when the midwife hit town
++- DuAnn had helped Gabrielle fabricate the "evidence" of Max's
parentage; when DuAnn showed this evidence to Renee, Renee
became frightened that Asa's heart wouldn't be able to take it if he
found out that Max wasn't really his son
++- was tried for (and convicted of?) DuAnn's murder but was vindicated
when the police discovered that Julia Medina was the actual murderess
- was hit by Tina in a hit-and-run when Tina tried to run down Carlo
- helped Tina cover it up: only the family knows who the hit-and-run
driver was
++- divorced Asa when she thought he was having an affair with
Blair; took the Buchanan Palace Hotel as a marriage settlement
++- became friends with Mortimer, but refused his marriage proposal
++- seeing Larry Wolek, but this may soon be complicated by Clint
Sarah Gordon Buchanan (Jensen Buchanan, Grace Phillips)
- a therapist for the blind and later a patient advocate
- fell for Cord, but he went back to Tina
- then fell for Bo and cheered him up after his wife Didi died
- involved in a triangle with Megan and Bo
- Bo chose Sarah and agreed to remain friends with Megan
++- helped Megan get the Crown Prince of Mendora his crown back
- was supposed to marry the Crown Prince's brother (name?), but
married Bo in an elaborate (if fake) ceremony; the two escaped on
skis immediately afterwards
- was raped by Austin when she tried to get evidence that Austin had
killed Alicia Grande and set Bo up for it; shot and killed Austin
- married Bo and was later kidnapped; her plane went down and she was
presumed dead
- on the day of Bo's wedding to Cassie, Alex found Sarah and brought her
back
- having lost Bo and most of her life, she turned to drugs and became a
pill-popper; fired from her job as patient advocate as a result
- Bo agonized over the decision, but eventually chose Sarah over Cassie
- was tried for and convicted of the murder of Carlo Hesser
- conviction was overturned when it was learned that Carlo's niece,
Stephanie, was the actual murderess
- died when a truck forced Bo off the road
Victoria Lord 'Viki' Buchanan (Gillian Spencer, "Erika Slezak")
[Icki, anything beginning with Ick, ++St. Viki]
- has two daughters and two sons: Megan, Kevin, Joey, and Jessica
- older sister of Meredith and Tina
- owner and publisher of The Banner newspaper
- daughter Megan is the result of an illegal teenage marriage to Roger
Gordon
- Roger was an inhabitant of the city of Eterna, founded by her father
to protect an enormous stash of gold beneath Llantano Mountain; Viki
met Roger accidentally and fell in love with him; when she saw an
explosion that sealed Eterna with all of its residents inside, she
thought Roger dead and an alternate personality, Niki Smith, emerged
- Niki went to New York where she found out that she was pregnant
- Victor searched for Viki and found her; he took her back to
Llanview; on the way back, Niki simultaneously gave birth and
turned back into Viki; Victor had Viki's memory removed via
hypnosis and Viki forgot all about her child
++- later fell in love with and married Joe Riley despite her father's
disapproval
++- when Joe was in a car accident and presumed dead, Viki married
Steve (?)
++- married Joe again, but he died in 1978 of a brain tumor
++- fell in love with and married cowboy Clint Buchanan
- ran for mayor of Llanview and won despite a mudslinging campaign
orchestrated by Herb Callison
- a hit was ordered by Carlo Hesser then cancelled, but Johnny Dee
re-instated it when Carlo was in jail
- Viki was shot and later suffered a stroke; when she saw Johnny
Dee climbing the stairs to Tina's bedroom, Niki Smith emerged and
climbed up the stairs; she shot and killed Johnny when he knocked
Tina out and attempted to kidnap her
- is having affair with Sloan Carpenter and plans to marry him when her
divorce from Clint becomes final
++- is currently hellbent on proving that Dorian murdered her father
++- flew down to Miami to ask Blair about Dorian, learned that Dorian
had signed a fake confession to Victor's murder; also learned that
Dorian has been paying Ethel Crawford (Victor's nurse) off for years
++- allowed Sloan to install a bug in Dorian's phone
++- flew down to Charlottesville to see Ethel and found her on the floor,
passed out from an insulin overdose; is convinced that Dorian tried to
kill her
Herb Callison (Anthony Call)
- step-father of Cassie Callison
- once married to Dorian
- former DA of Llanview, he ran for mayor against Viki in a vicious
campaign, but lost
- became mayor when Viki resigned
- was ruined when he refused to marry Alex Olanov and she revealed
to the press that his campaign had mob connections
- moved to Chicago; ++returned at Christmastime to visit Cassie and
Dorian
Andrew Carpenter (Wortham Krimmer)
- son of Sloan Carpenter
- pastor of St. James Episcopal Parish in Llanview
- fell in love with Megan
- went to Jaba City to find Jake when Megan began to lose her battle
with lupus
- rescued Jake and brought him back just in time
- in the midst of the rescue, he killed General Gazi and had to
deal with residual feelings of guilt
- was involved in a homophobia/right to privacy storyline in the summer
of '92
- accused of molesting a young parishioner, Billy Douglas; the charge
was proven false, but Andrew's sexual orientation came into question;
he refused to reveal it, citing a right to privacy; he nearly lost
his parish, but was saved when Cassie told the Bishop that they were
engaged
- married Cassie Callison
- always wants to do the right thing, very loyal
++- just recently suffered the loss of his child, William
++- at first, he refused to let Cassie adopt baby "William"; he thought
she needed to take time to grieve the loss of the first William;
changed his mind when it became clear that Cassie would leave him for
Baby William
Cassie Callison Carpenter (Cruzi Cram, Ava Haddad, Holly Gagnier, "Laura
Bonarrigo")
- daughter of Dorian Lord and David Rinaldi, but thinks of Herb as her
father
- joined Mitch Lawrence's cult to prove that it was a fraud, but became
his love slave when he drugged her
- saved when Dorian killed him
- married Rob Coronale, later divorced
- married Bo Buchanan, later divorced
- finally fell in love with and married her minister
- was pregnant but lost the baby after an argument with Dorian
++- found a baby in the creche on Christmas Eve when she went out to
retrieve Luna's quilt
++- saw the baby as a miracle and a gift from God and is intent on
adopting him; named him William (after her dead child)
Sloan Carpenter (Roy Thinnes)
[Moan, Groan, Drone, General Sleaze, ++Slime]
- an army general, very cold to his sons Andrew and William while they
were growing up; has grown closer to Andrew now
- refused to accept that William was gay and refused to go to his
funeral when he died of AIDS; ++lately has come to accept William
and regards Jonathan Michaelson (William's companion) as his son-
in-law
- is having an affair with Viki Buchanan
- wrote a biography of Victor Lord entitled "Lord of the Banner" and
accused Dorian of murdering Victor
- teaches at Llanview University and was asked to be president of the
university
- was accused of sexual harassment by Emily Haynes, one of his students
- was cleared of the charges
++- is helping Viki prove that Dorian killed Victor
++- broke into Dorian's penthouse and installed a tap in her phone
++- with the evidence from the tap, he went to Hank Gannon and
demanded that Hank investigate; Hank said no and threatened to
have him arrested if he didn't remove the tap from Dorian's phone
immediately
++- flew down to Charlottesville with Viki and found Ethel Crawford
collapsed on her floor of an insulin overdose; suspects Dorian
**William Carpenter
- the dead elder son of Sloan Carpenter
++- architect
++- lover was Jonathan Michaelson (Bruce McCarty)
- he was gay and died of AIDS
- all through his illness, Sloan ignored him; Sloan also refused to go
to his funeral
Blair Daimler (Mia Korf, ++"Kassie Wesley")
- daughter of Addie Kramer, niece of Dorian Lord
- was shuttled from foster home to foster home from her moment of birth
because she was of mixed parentage (White mother, Asian father)
- when she first hit town, she stole a tip at Wanda's, then pretended
to faint when Tina saw her
- got in good with the Buchanans and started working with Viki at The
Banner
- was sent to Jaba City with Cord to act as his interpreter in their
quest to find Jake; when Cord was shot and fell into the river, she
tried to save him, but his body was washed away
- was fired from The Banner when she used off-the-record quotes in
an article about a councilman
- tried to destroy Dorian because she mistakenly thought that Dorian had
had her mother institutionalized
- when Dorian mistakenly signed a confession to Victor's murder, Blair
blackmailed her with the document and took the Intruder away from her
- during the end of the investigation for Carlo's murder, Blair
learned that it hadn't been Dorian's fault that Addie was
committed; that, in fact, Addie had stabbed Dorian in the back
(literally) with a pair of scissors
- Dorian took The Intruder back
- made love to Max on top of her wedding dress, then married Asa the
same day
- got Asa to back a company for her called "Blair Daimler Designs"
- faked a pregnancy and a miscarriage
- Asa divorced her and left her without a cent; he also took her company
as a divorce settlement
++- over Luna's Love Line, announced to everyone on New Year's Eve
'92 that she had slept with Max Holden on the morning of her
wedding, on *top* of the wedding dress
- skipped town with everything in Dorian's safe and left the fake
confession as payment
++- provided Viki and Sloan with the ammo they needed to try and
get the goods on Dorian re: Victor's death
++- returned to Llanview and is now trying to help Auntie Dorian
in exchange for money and a place to live
Johnny Dee (Anthony Crivello)
- son of Carlo Hesser
- put out a hit on Viki when she was mayor of Llanview
- believed that Tina's baby (Sarah) was his; enlisted Gabrielle's help in
proving that Tina's baby was his; interrupted Tina's wedding and shot
Cord
- killed by Niki Smith when he tried to kidnap Tina
DuAnn Demerest (?)
- LeeAnn's dead mother
- was a mid-wife in Sweetwater, Texas; almost delivered Sarah Roberts
- originally, Gabrielle paid her to tell Asa that Max was his son; later
she went to Llanview and blackmailed Renee with this info
- killed in self-defense by Julia Medina acting on Carlo Hesser's behalf
- she pulled a gun on Julia, they struggled over it, DuAnn was killed;
Renee was accused of the murder but was eventually acquitted
LeeAnn Demarest (Yasmine Bleeth)
- came to town to be with her mother and got a job working as a groom
(groomess?) for the Buchanan stables
- was very acrimonious to the Buchanan clan when her mother was
murdered, believing that Renee had done it
- rescued Jessica from a burning Llanfair, then was overcome with the
smoke; was saved by Matt Kingston (Max)
- fell in love with Max after Gabrielle was sentenced to fifteen
years in the slammer
- they had a short-lived relationship, then he went back to Texas
- slept with Kevin and learned she was pregnant
- when Max came back to town, she tried to rekindle things with him,
but he told her in no uncertain terms that it was over; not wanting to
trap Max into marriage, she didn't tell Max about the baby and married
Kevin, believing that the child she was carrying was Max's
- fell in love with Jason while teaching him how to read and decided
to divorce Kevin; told Max that he was Duke's father and patiently
awaited the results of the blood tests; was shocked when the results
came back and Kevin was found to be the father; lost the custody
battle for her son and fled with him
- returned to Llanview when Jason was arrested; she agreed to give
Kevin the baby back as long as he didn't press charges
- she returned the child and was arrested on her way out the door;
Kevin later dropped the charges
- after Jason dumped her, she got partial custody of Duke
- took Duke with her to Sweetwater
William 'Billy' Douglas (Ryan Philippe)
- best friend of Joey Buchanan and Alana
- son of Virginia ++and Walter Douglas
- announced he was gay to the horror and astonishment of his parents
- had a short-lived romance with ++Rick Mitchell (Joe Fiske), a waiter at
the Buchanan Palace hotel
- is now at Yale; ++plans to become a minister like his idol, Rev.
Carpenter
Hank 'The Cannon' Gannon (Nathan Purdee)
- DA of Llanview
- has one daughter, Rachel; calls her Rikki
- was married to Nora but is now seeing Sheila
- very stubborn and bull-headed, but admits when he is wrong
- has never lost a case as DA
Nora Hannon Gannon (soon-to-be Buchanan) (Hillary Bailey Smith)
- Hank's ex-wife
- one daughter, Rachel
- is a brilliant attorney, but very ethical; believes strongly in the
criminal justice system; is fair and has a strong sense of justice
- tried to help Bo find the driver of the car that forced Bo off the road
and killed Sarah
- found evidence that *she* was the actual driver of the car that
forced Bo off of Llantano Bridge; she thought that she'd had a
blackout and had run him off the road
- Bo proved that she had hit a sign before crossing the bridge and
couldn't have caused the crash
- was asked to represent Kevin and Todd/Zach/Powell when Marty accused
the four boys of rape; the charges against Kevin were eventually
dropped
- near the end of the trial, Nora learned that T, Z, and P were guilty;
she asked the judge that she be removed from the case but her request
was denied; caused a mistrial so the three boys wouldn't go free
- presently seeing Bo; they're engaged
- had a brain tumor, but didn't tell Bo about it
- has gone blind from the tumor, but regained her sight
-underwent surgery to have the tumor removed
++- part of the tumor was left in because the doctor felt it was too
risky to try to remove it
++- went up to New England (?) on vacation after surgery
++- went blind on the night Todd arrived to terrorize her
++- sent Bo away when Todd told her that he would shoot Bo if she
didn't
++- stabbed Todd, but he got away
++- underwent surgery to remove the rest of the tumor and can now
see
++- went to Statesville with Powell to see Zach and see if they could
find any helpful information abut where Todd might have gone
++- kept mum when Bo and Powell went to Mount Joy, New York to
find Todd
Rachel 'Rikki' Gannon (Ellen Bethea)
- daughter of Nora and Hank
- currently seeing Kevin
- has a strong sense of what's right and what's fair; very honest
++- helped Ben Price find an apartment
++ denotes additions since last posting
* last actor was a baby, name unknown
** role was never cast
? name of actor is unknown
names in double quotations denote the actor currently playing the role
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