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Emma Elizabeth Wylie Samuelson
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known professionally as Emma Samms, (born 28 August 1960) is an English actress and TV host, known for her role as
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on the American daytime
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'' and as the second actress to play
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on the prime time soap opera ''
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''. She also portrayed the recurring role of Amanda Vardalis on the British soap opera ''
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''.


Early life

Samms was raised in the Jewish religion.


Career

Samms first played Holly Sutton Scorpio on the
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''
General Hospital ''General Hospital'' (often abbreviated as ''GH'') is an American daytime television soap opera. It is listed in ''Guinness World Records'' as the list of longest-running television shows by category, longest-running American soap opera in pro ...
'' from 1982 to 1985. With Samms choosing to leave the series amicably to go to ABC's ''
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'', her character Holly seemingly perished in a plane crash. On 10 April 1985 Samms appeared in the fifth-season episode "
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" as
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, a role originated by
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in 1981. The character was immediately transplanted into the new ''Dynasty'' spin-off ''
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'' for two seasons (1985–1987). After the spinoff was cancelled, Samms and the character of Fallon returned to ''Dynasty'' in the 23 September 1987 eighth-season premiere " The Siege - Part 1". Samms remained with ''Dynasty'' for two seasons until its last episode on 11 May 1989. She later returned for the 1991
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'' Dynasty: The Reunion''. After the show's run, Samms appeared in several film and television roles. In 1989, Samms made a guest appearance on the sitcom ''
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'' playing Marcy Bradford, the deceased mother of Nicole Bradford ( Staci Keanan) and the woman whom the two fathers (
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;
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) fought over. "Fan favorite" Samms had been so popular at ''General Hospital'' that Holly was brought back from the dead in January 1992 after a seven-year absence. She stayed in the role until 1993, during this time also playing Holly's lookalike half-sister Paloma Perez, a heroic revolutionary. In 1995, Samms appeared as the villainous Grayson Louder in the prime time soap opera ''
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'', a spin-off of ''
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'', both produced by former ''Dynasty'' producer
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. She also appeared in the TV movie ''Treacherous Beauties''. Samms appeared in four episodes of the
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'' in 2003 and had a recurring run on the BBC daytime series ''
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'' as Amanda Vardalis in 2005. She made a seven-episode return to ''General Hospital'' as Holly in February 2006. After serving as a presenter (alongside ''General Hospital'' co-star
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) for the
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on 28 April 2006, she reappeared on ''General Hospital'' for a three-week run starting 1 May 2006, and then again on 30 June 2006. She subsequently stepped into the BBC Children in Need reality series ''
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'' as a hairdresser from 3–17 November 2006. On 20 September 2007 Samms guested on the long-running
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'' as drug addict Ella Winstanley. In August 2009, Samms performed at the
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in ''Shall We Dance'', a dance revue of musicals by
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, choreographed by Adam Cooper who stars, alongside his wife Sarah Wildor. In June 2014 Samms was announced as a contestant in BBC gymnastics show '' Tumble''. She was the second celebrity to be eliminated. In 2018, Samms performed alongside 26 other celebrities on a new Christmas song, called
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, which was written and produced by Grahame and Jack Corbyn. The song was released digitally through independent record label
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, on 30 November 2018 in aid of
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under the artist name
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. The music video debuted exclusively with '' The Sun'' on 29 November 2018 and had its first TV showing on '' Good Morning Britain'' on 30 November 2018. The song peaked at number two on the iTunes pop chart. Later in 2018, Samms reprised her role as Amanda Vardalis on ''Doctors''. Samms continues to make appearances on ''General Hospital''. She returned in May 2009, March 2012, August 2013, July 2015, and September 2020. On 22 August 2022, it was announced that Emma Samms would be returning to ''General Hospital'', reprising the role of Holly Sutton, which she has been playing since 1982. Her episodes were scheduled to start airing in October 2022. According to ''Deadline'', "She’s now set to return to the ABC sudser in October. Fans last saw Holly on September 18, 2020; though presumed dead, Holly was found alive and locked in a cell in Monte Carlo." “I can’t believe that it’s been 40 years since I first appeared on General Hospital and that, once again, I get to play the wonderful character of Holly Sutton,” Samms told Deadline. “No one is more interested in what’s happened to her since we saw her two years ago, being held captive by a mysterious villain, than me!”


Personal life

Samms twice declined offers to appear in ''
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'', once during her run on ''General Hospital'' and the second during ''Dynasty''. Instead, she appeared on the cover of the February 1988 issue of ''
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'' in a bikini, as well as additional swimsuit shots inside the magazine. In 1983, Samms and her cousin, film producer Peter Samuelson, co-founded the
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, an organization that helps seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities. The organization was their response to losing Samms's brother and Samuelson's cousin, Jamie, who died at age nine from
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. In 1984 Samms and
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went public with their real-life romance, but the relationship ended around the time she left ''General Hospital'' the next year. Engaged to
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in the early 1980s, Samms has been married four times: to Bansi Nagji (1991–92), and to Tim Dillon (1994–95). She married John Holloway (1996-2003), and the couple had 2 children. In 2021, Samms married journalist and TV presenter
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. Samms was appointed
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(MBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to seriously and terminally ill children. In April 2018, Samms said that she had been dealing with
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, an illness that causes temporary facial paralysis. A month later she sent out an update on
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saying "paralysis on my face is 90% better". She tested positive for
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during the global pandemic in March 2020 and has since developed long-term complications from her initial infection.https://expressdigest.com/british-dynasty-star-emma-samms-59-tells-of-six-month-long-covid-hell-2/


Filmography


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