Michael E. Knight
Leave it to Tad the Cad Martin’s Emmy-winning portrayer to mature into not only the slyest of silver foxes but the perfect actor to play General Hospital ambulance-chaser Martin Grey.
Timeless: The Cast of All My Children… Then and Now [PHOTOS]
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Cady McClain
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Priscilla Grant/Courtesy of the Everett Collection With her 2021 Emmy win for her work as Jennifer Horton on Days of Our Lives, the erstwhile Dixie Cooney became the first actress to strike gold for three different soaps on three different networks in three different decades.
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Darnell Williams
Image Credit: ABC, Fox/Courtesy of the Everett Collection So popular was the Emmy winner’s pairing with Debbi Morgan as Angie Baxter that he was given a new character to play opposite hers on The City, his Jesse Hubbard was eventually resurrected, and the actors were reunited again by primetime’s Our Kind of People.
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Debbi Morgan
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Fox/Courtesy of the Everett Collection After decades of being teamed and reteamed with her All My Children leading man, the Emmy winner resumed her primetime career, scoring roles on, among other series, Bigger, Power and Power Book II: Ghost.
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Kim Delaney and Laurence Lau
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Priscilla Grant/Courtesy of the Everett Collection To this day, we cast a skeptical side-eye at jet skis. But at least we can take some comfort in knowing that time hasn’t laid a hand on Jenny and Greg Nelson’s portrayers (the former of whom is now Jackie Templeton on General Hospital).
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Cameron Mathison
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, ABC Correct us if we’re wrong, but in the decades since he debuted as Ryan Lavery, the only thing that’s changed about the actor (now Drew Cain on General Hospital) is that… he grew a little sexy stubble?
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Priscilla Grant/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Even when she was a teenage brunette making a splash as Erica Kane’s “forgotten” daughter, Kendall Hart, there was no disguising the blonde ambition that would help Buffy’s future portrayer slay Hollywood.
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Peter Bergman
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, CBS Whatever happened to the boy next door who scrubbed in as Cliff “I’m Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV” Warner? He evolved into one of daytime’s most respected leading men — and, as if you didn’t know, the one who plays Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless.
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Jill Larson
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Amazon Prime Video/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The gem who played Southern-fried Opal Cortlandt continues to work in TV and movies like the 2021 thriller The Manor (from which the more recent image is taken).
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Justin Bruening
Image Credit: Heidi Gutman/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Priscilla Grant/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Long after leaving behind the role of baby-faced Jamie Martin, the hunk — married in real life to Alexa Havins, formerly Babe Carey — became a scruffy fixture in primetime.
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Elizabeth Hendrickson
Image Credit: Lawrence Lucier/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, John Paschal/JPI It’s no wonder the actress remains a soap MVP (as Young & Restless’ Chloe Fisher). Even back when All My Children killed her off as Maggie Stone, her natural charisma was so undeniable that it prompted fans to demand that she be rehired as surprise twin Maggie.
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Eva LaRue
Image Credit: Bill Morris/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Priscilla Grant/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Honestly, we could look at these two photos of Maria Santos’ former portrayer all day and still not be sure which one was “then” and which was “now.” (“Then” is on the left, though, if it was gonna cause you to lose sleep.)
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Rebecca Budig
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Priscilla Grant/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Ah, some things never change. Whether the soap-hopper was playing Greenlee Smythe or General Hospital pot-stirrer Hayden Barnes, the mischievous gleam in her eye was impossible to miss.
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Josh Duhamel
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Elizabeth Goodenough/Courtesy of the Everett Collection After appearing in Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle” video, the movie-star-in-the-making got his big break when he was tapped by All My Children to play dreamy, scheme-y Leo du Pres.
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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI Since meeting when they were cast as future supercouple Hayley and Matéo Santos, the marrieds have gone on to become a Hollywood power couple — and, as a matter of fact, the twosome behind ABC’s primetime All My Children revival, Pine Valley.
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Walt Willey
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI Aside from the facial hair — grown to play gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok — we’d swear that Jackson Montgomery’s real-life alter ego hasn’t aged a second, never mind a day, since the soap’s sayonara.
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Susan Lucci
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI We can assure you that this is not an April Fool’s Day joke. Nor is it April Fool’s Day. These really are photos of the soap icon taken decades apart. Erica Kane’s portrayer simply remains as “sensuelle” as ever. (Props to the longtime fans who will get the reference.)
