Nancy Karr (also Pollock) is a fictional character on the long-running daytime

soap opera A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ...

, '' The Edge of Night''. The role was played by actress

Ann Flood Ann Flood (born Maryanne Elizabeth Ott; November 12, 1932 – October 7, 2022) was an American actress, best known for her role as journalist and author Nancy Pollock Karr in the soap opera ''The Edge of Night'', a role she began in 1962. Floo ...

for 22 years from 1962 to 1984, until the series ended.

Performer

Nancy was portrayed by Ann Flood from 1962 to 1984, until ''The Edge of Night'' was cancelled. At the show's conclusion, she was the longest-serving cast member. Flood was twice nominated for a

Daytime Emmy Award The Daytime Emmy Awards, or Daytime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the New York–based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ...

for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, in 1982 and 1984.

Characterization

Nancy was the daughter of Joe and Rose Pollock, and was a newspaper reporter for the periodical in the fictional midwestern town of Monticello. She also had two siblings, Lee, who was married to Gerry McGrath; and Elaine, called Cookie. She had met and fell in love with widower

Mike Karr Mike Karr is a fictional character on the long-running Daytime television, daytime soap opera, ''The Edge of Night''. A tireless crime-fighter, Karr was introduced as a cop finishing law school. This character evolved from the earlier Perry Mason ...

, a lawyer who had lost his first wife, Sara Lane, to a terrible accident. They married in 1963. Nancy proved herself to be a wonderful stepmother to his daughter, Laurie Ann, and in 1963, married Mike. The two were very much in love and were married through the series ended in 1984. During that time, she and Mike also adopted Timmy Faraday after the death of his father, and the arrest and imprisonment of his mother, Serena. She is also a grandmother to John Victor Dallas, the son of Laurie Ann and her husband.

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* Fictional reporters The Edge of Night characters Television characters introduced in 1962 {{soap-char-stub