Favorite Soap Villain or Villainess
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grantch — 15 years ago(June 26, 2010 05:26 AM)
Secret Storm - Pauline Tyrell (Haila Stoddard)
Young Dr. Malone - Claire (Bannister) as played by Lesley Woods
Edge of Night - Sybil Gordon (Priscilla Gillette), Rick Oliver (Keith Charles)
Dark Shadows - Angelique (Lara Parker)
Another World - Aunt Liz (Audra Lindley)
Ryan's Hope - Delia (Ilene Kristen)
One Life to Live - Mitch Laurence (Roscoe Born)
special mention must be made of Claudia Morgan, a great radio actress who was the heroine of The Right to Happiness for many years with John Larkin as two different love interests she did an Edge of Night stint in 1958 as a conniving, shrewish blackmailer
why don't soaps have great villains and villainesses any more? All you Another World fans, don't you occasionally miss the first Rachel, a soap witch if there ever was one! At least you can still see her as Dorian on One Life to Live. LMAO -
rhettsamigo2003 — 15 years ago(June 27, 2010 07:43 PM)
YES, Robin Strasser rocked as Rachel and would have done so for many more years had she not wanted to move to Hollywood in real life in the early 1970s. Funny, though, after she divorced Laurence Luckinbill, she moved BACK to New York to play Dr. Christina Karras Martin on ALL MY CHILDREN before jumping over to ONE LIFE TO LIVE to take over the role of Dorian from Claire Malis. So not only is she my favorite Rachel, she's my favorite Dorian as well. I was too small (or not born yet) to enjoy the first 3 villains you mentioned, but I DO recall Audra Lindley (Mrs. Roper) as the 2nd Liz Matthews, wailing, crying, and nagging everyone around her. Delia was a nervous basket case on RYAN's HOPE, Ilene was the best in that role. Mitch Laurence ticked me off so many times on so many occasions, I wanted to murder him myself !!
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reiss-ferlance — 15 years ago(November 18, 2010 09:42 AM)
I'm from the Uk so you may not have heard of these soaps but;
EastEnders - Archie Mitchell, Steve Owen, Lucas Johnson, Janine Butcher, Dan Sullivan and maybe more.
Coronation St. - Tony Gordon, Richard Hillman, Joe Carter
Emmerdale - Ray Mullan, Sally Spode, Steph Stokes.
All I can think of for now.
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g404c — 15 years ago(November 19, 2010 11:29 AM)
I know of EastEnders. I'm in the US, but it did air here on public broadcasting (I think that was the channel - been a long time now) in the early 1990s in North Carolina. I think the episodes that aired at the time were from the 1980s - I liked what I saw, but I don't even know if it airs anywhere in the US now.
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sera_amber_nyanko — 14 years ago(April 26, 2011 10:29 PM)
Stefano DiMera, with Vivian Alamaine as a distant second. I would love to add Victor, but he flip-flops too much for my liking, depending on whether he wants to be in someone's good graces or not. Still love it when he and Stefano are directly bumping heads.
The only other soap I watch besides Days is B&B, but I really don't have a favorite villain there. I guess if you twisted my arm I'd say Amber Moore, but I always liked Amber, and other not liking you doesn't really make me view you as a villain. If that were the case I'd just say Hope because I truly truly despise her and everythign about her.
"I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave!" -
webmaster-875-657840 — 14 years ago(April 28, 2011 06:43 AM)
It's almost impossible to come up with a list because there are so many to choose from so I'll just pick my personal favorites and I'll stick to daytime serials and not night time like Dallas & Dynasty
- Alan Spaulding as played by Chris Bernau, Guiding Light
- Roger Thorpe as played by Michael Zaslow, Guiding Light
- James Stenbeck as played by Anthony Herrera, As the World Turns
- Peter Blake as played by Jason Brooks, Days of Our Lives
- Paul Mendez as played by Eddie Velez, Days of Our Lives
- Victor Kiriakis as played by John Aniston, Days of Our Lives
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gc7234 — 14 years ago(September 25, 2011 12:54 PM)
Days of Our Lives - Kristen, Andre and Stefano DiMera, Vivian. Lawrence Alamain. Princess Gina. Lexie during her "true DiMera" phase. Renee DiMera. The Hathaways (Max and Megan)
Young & The Restless - Sheila, and Brad Carlton (or whoever)'s ex-wife wife who diguised herself as Nikki's maid, then shot her. Also Patty (the most recent Patty). Jill when the other actress played her in the early 80s. Lauren before they tamed her. Marge (Katherine's chanceler's lookalike).
Loving - Jonathan (the "devil" guy who threatened and tormented Lorna), Lorna, Gwenyth
Santa Barbara - that psychic lady who got obsessed with Cruz, also that guy (Eden's or Kelly's husband), who had plastic surgery to look like him & take over his life.
All My Children - Janet from another planet
As The World Turns - Barbara, James Stenbeck
Another World - Cecile, Carl Hutchins (before they tamed him), Justine.
Search For Tomorrow - Warren.
Dynasty - Alexis, Kystal's evil double, Rita.
Knot's Landing - Jill, Abby.
Falcon Crest - forgot the characters name, but the main lady played by Jane Wyman.
Melrose Place - Amanda
Dark Shadows - Barnabus
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gc7234 — 14 years ago(September 25, 2011 12:59 PM)
Ooohhhhh!!! also, All My Children: Jane - the lady who had plastic surgery to look like Erica and steal her life.
And Another World: Emily, who was programmed to kill David during that whole murder mystery of "The Mystery of the woman who wore the blue diamond ring who killed David" (and killed others, I believe).
Another World: Felicia Gallant and Cass Winthrop - before they tamed them. Alma Rutter.
I love Sasha Vujacic !! -
grantch — 13 years ago(August 14, 2012 02:07 PM)
Although OLTL is gone, the character of Todd Manning has come to GH and remains a favorite bad guy with a sense of whimsical humor. He began as the leader of a college rape and the writers planned him as a short term baddy, but the worse he got the audience loved him, even after he tried to rape his victim again as well as kill his blind lawyer. Don't grin. He turned out to be heroine Viki's half brother and partial heir to the Lord fortune. Dorian's niece Blair went after him for his money. Long story, but he's done so many rotten things and yet tries to make things right (making them worse) most fan root for him. Actor Roger Howarth left the role for 8 years and his replacement, although an excellent actor, never really convinced fans he was Todd. OLTL watchers were overjoyed when he returned to the role last May and it was revealed the phony Todd was actually Victor, Todd's brother. Many GH viewers were unhappy that OLTL cast came to their show, but now Roger has been throughly assimilated as a GH favorite and he's still doing great bad things to help other people. Roger Howarth has a sense of delivery which few TV actors match and always brings out the best in whichever actor or actress he's playing against. Currently he's involved with Heather Webber and a baby switch but driven by guilt and wanting to make things right he keeps us watching daily to see what he'll do. Roger is great!
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Brandos_Bitch — 13 years ago(August 14, 2012 04:17 PM)
I wouldnt call Todd Manning a villain though, more like an anti-hero(emphasis on the anti)
He has shown too many redemptitive layers to be considered an all out villain (allthough he was a full blown villain in the begining)