Vivian Alamain is a fictional character from ''
Days of Our Lives
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'', an American
soap opera
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on the
NBC
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network. Created by
head writer
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s
Richard J. Allen and
Beth Milstein
Beth Milstein is an American television writer and producer.
Positions held
''The Young and the Restless'' (hired by Josh Griffith)
*Script Writer: May 14, 2008 – July 10, 2008; November 19, 2012 – September 24, 2015
*Script Editor: July 11, 2 ...
, and introduced by
executive producer
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s
Ken Corday
Kenneth Robert Corday (born June 16, 1950) is an American television soap opera producer and music composer. He is the son of Ted Corday and Betty Corday, the co-creators of ''Days of Our Lives''. His production company Corday Productions owns ...
and
Al Rabin
Al Rabin (January 26, 1936 – August 14, 2012) was a producer of soap operas, specifically known for his work on ''Days of Our Lives''. Rabin served in multiple capacities in his sixteen years at ''Days'', first as a director and then as a supervi ...
, the role is notably portrayed by actress
Louise Sorel
Louise Jacqueline Sorel (née Cohen, born August 6, 1940) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Vivian Alamain in '' Days of Our Lives'' from 1992 to 2000, 2009 to 2011, 2017 to 2018, and 2020, Augusta Wainwright on '' ...
. In addition to Sorel, the role has subsequently been portrayed by
Marj Dusay
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,
Robin Strasser
Robin Victory in Europe Strasser (born May 7, 1945) is an American actress, best known for her role as Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera ''One Life to Live''.
Life and career
Strasser's middle name is a tribute to her being born the da ...
and
Linda Dano
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.
Casting
Louise Sorel
Louise Jacqueline Sorel (née Cohen, born August 6, 1940) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Vivian Alamain in '' Days of Our Lives'' from 1992 to 2000, 2009 to 2011, 2017 to 2018, and 2020, Augusta Wainwright on '' ...
, who was previously best known for playing
Augusta Lockridge in NBC soap opera, ''
Santa Barbara'', was cast in the role of Vivian in 1992.
The ''Days of Our Lives'' casting director contacted Sorel's new agent about the role of Vivian and described her.
Sorel's agent explained that they managed the actress to the casting director, who was familiar with Sorel's work in ''Santa Barbara''.
Other actresses were being considered for the role, but Sorel was eventually cast as Vivian.
Sorel signed an initial one-year contract with the show.
Sorel was released from her contract after only five months.
Marj Dusay
Marjorie Ellen Mahoney Dusay (; née Mahoney; February 20, 1936 – January 28, 2020) was an American actress known for her roles on American soap operas. She was especially known for her role as Alexandra Spaulding on ''Guiding Light'', a role s ...
was cast in the role, appearing for a total of five episodes. When producers learned that they would have to continue paying Sorel, despite her departure, she was brought back to the role.
In 1993, it was announced that Vivian's nephew,
Lawrence Alamain
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Stephanie Johnson
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(
Michael Sabatino
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Sabatino attended the University of California, Irvine, where he set a school record for the pole vault of 17½ feet.
He has been married to actres ...
), and her nemesis,
Carly Manning
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(
Crystal Chappell
Crystal Elizabeth Chappell (born August 4, 1965) is an American actress who played Carly Manning on ''Days of Our Lives'' from 1990 to 1993, Maggie Carpenter on ''One Life to Live'' from 1995–97 and Olivia Spencer on ''Guiding Light'' from ...
), were to both leave ''Days of Our Lives''.
Sorel's future with the show was subsequently in doubt.
However, it was confirmed that Sorel would remain on the show regardless.
In December 1993, ''
The Herald Journal
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'' reported that Sorel had signed a new multi-year contract.
In 1995, Sorel signed a third contract term with the show.
In October 1999, it was announced that Sorel was to leave ''Days of Our Lives'' when her contract expired in January of the following year.
Of Vivian's departure, executive producers,
Ken Corday
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and
Tom Langan
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Contributions
Positions held
'' Days of Our Lives''
*Co-Executive Producer: April 21, 1992 – March 28, 2002
* Producer: 1991 - 1992
* Head Writer: ...
, said "We love the character of Vivian, and hopefully she will return sometime in the near future." Producers confirmed that the role would not be recast.
Vivian and Sorel were dismissed from the soap, and the actress admitted that it felt "horrible".
Vivian departed on February 22, 2000.
In July 2009, it was announced that Sorel would be reprising the role of Vivian. Executive producer,
Gary Tomlin Gary Tomlin is an American soap opera actor, writer, producer and director.
Career
Tomlin's career on daytime serials began in 1973 when he was cast on CBS's ''Search for Tomorrow'' as Bruce Carson. He also made a guest appearance on "The Nightwal ...
, contacted Sorel and invited her to return to the show.
Sorel was surprised as Tomlin invited her to return over the telephone without seeing her current appearance.
Sorel told ''
TV Guide
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'' "
omlindidn’t ask me how I’m looking these days. For all he knew, I’ve gained 250 pounds."
The actress commuted from New York to California, where ''Days of Our Lives'' is filmed, for the role.
Sorel signed an initial one-year contract.
Sorel was planning to sign a longer contract, but since relocating to New York, she could not speculate on her long-term future with the show.
Sorel returned to filming in September 2009.
Vivian's return was broadcast on October 30, 2009.
Sorel's return coincided with the return of Chappell as Carly.
In June 2011, it was revealed by ''
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'' that Sorel had been let go following the departure of
head writer
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Dena Higley
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; she last appeared on September 22 of the same year.
In August 2017, it was announced that Sorel would reprise the role once more. Originally reported to reappear in January 2018, Sorel made her first appearance on December 29, 2017. Sorel departed on May 23, 2018, when the character was presumed dead.
In February 2019, it was reported that
Robin Strasser
Robin Victory in Europe Strasser (born May 7, 1945) is an American actress, best known for her role as Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera ''One Life to Live''.
Life and career
Strasser's middle name is a tribute to her being born the da ...
had joined the cast in an unknown role; months later it was revealed that she had been cast as Vivian. She appeared from September 2 to October 7 of the same year.
In December 2019, it was announced that Sorel would once again reprise the role. She returned on June 30, 2020, and wrapped up her stint on July 20 of the same year. On December 11, 2020, it was announced
Linda Dano
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had been cast in the role. She first appeared on February 3, 2021, and departed on April 22 of that year.
Storylines
1992–2000
Vivian, the aunt of
Lawrence Alamain
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arrives in Salem on March 2, 1992.
She is determined to take over Alamain corporations, but is foiled when
John Black inherits them. Vivian looks to be rich, and powerful, so she pursues
wealthy
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crime lord
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,
Victor Kiriakis
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.
Vivian marries Victor for business purposes, but the marriage is short lived. After Victor leaves her for
Kate Roberts, Vivian sets out to destroy
Carly Manning
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. Vivian is taking herbal pills from Dr. Wu, which makes her loopy. She begins to target Carly's patients, by injecting them with cleaning fluids.
The police begin to investigate Carly for murder. Carly learns Vivian is the one killing off her patients, and sets out to prove it. A crazed Vivian gives Carly a strong dose of morphine to put her in a very deep sleep. Vivian gives Carly a serum that gives her a deathlike paralysis. Carly is pronounced dead, and Vivian buries Carly alive in a coffin, built with a low oxygen supply, and little water. Vivian stops taking her herbs, and realizes what she is doing is crazy, and with the help of Lawrence she digs Carly up.
Vivian is arrested and put in Pine Haven Sanitarium where she meets and befriends Laura Horton. Laura sees Vivian as her ticket out of the Sanitarium, and so Laura continues her friendship with Vivian in order to get out of the Sanitarium and get back to Salem.
Vivian is released, and sets her sights on destroying Kate, and Victor's marriage. She finds out that Kate can't produce a male heir, so she carries Kate & Victor's baby.
Vivian is now pregnant with their child, and tries to seduce Victor who doesn't fall for her tricks. Vivian gives birth to
Philip Kiriakis
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, and Kate tries everything to get custody.
Vivian also tricked Victor into marrying her by replacing Kate during the wedding rehearsal and made it the real deal. When Kate finds out, Vivian drugs Kate's coffee, but the coffee is given to the pilot of a plane Kate is on. The plane crashes, but Kate lives although they can't find her body.
She and Victor make love, after they can't find Kate's body. Kate returns, and wants custody of Philip, and gets it. Vivian takes comfort in Rudolfo (who is actually
Stefano DiMera) and unwillingly helps with his plan. She and Ivan are accused of helping Stefano kidnap
Marlena Evans
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, but Stefano signs an affidavit exonerating them. She and Ivan are named accomplices in
Kristen DiMera
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's scheme trapping Marlena in a secret room and are arrested. In exchange for her freedom, Vivian agrees to divorce Victor and gives up her wealth.
Vivian receives bad news when she learns she is fired from Titan.
She and Ivan begin taking odd jobs to make ends meet. She meets Steven "Jonesy" Jones, an elderly man whom she thinks is wealthy, but is merely a caretaker for
Stefano DiMera. She marries him after a brief romance, and he dies on their wedding night after making love to her. She inherits his belongings, which makes Stefano romance her in order to get his possessions back. He implants a device in her tooth allowing him to control her moods. After they are married, she discovers what he did and files for divorce. He gives her the townhouse and money in exchange for her silence. She begins to look for alternative methods to cure Victor after he suffers a stroke.
Once Victor recovers, he returns to Kate. Vivian leaves Salem with her sidekick Ivan to get a fresh start. They travel around the world, and live off Ivan's lottery winnings.
2009–2011
Vivian returned to Salem in 2009, seeking revenge on
Carly Manning
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for killing her nephew Lawrence.
She arranges for someone else to take the fall for her nephew's killing, however, as she wants to deal with Carly personally. She discovers that Carly had an illegitimate child, the result of an affair, and that Lawrence had forced her to give up the child. Vivian resolves to find the now grown child, and kill her in order to hurt Carly as revenge for Lawrence's death. A vision of Lawrence encourages her in this scheme. Victor Kiriakis, her old flame and a fellow adversary of Carly, invites Vivian to live in his mansion and offers to help her in her vengeful scheme. With the help of her new manservant and henchman Gus, Vivian learns that Carly's daughter is
Melanie Layton
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, who is engaged to Victor's son Phillip. Victor forbids her to kill Melanie, and tells Viv to focus on Carly instead. Vivian ignores him and befriends Melanie. She helps with the wedding and poisons a comb that she gives Melanie to wear on her wedding day. Gus holds Carly hostage in a warehouse where she will watch her daughter's death. Carly attacks Gus and steals his phone. She texts Vivian, calling her to the warehouse. Vivian arrives and is attacked by Carly, but Hope has discovered Vivian's plot also.
Hope arrives and stops Carly from killing Vivian by revealing that Melanie is fine. Victor discovered Vivian's scheme and switched the poisoned comb with a safe one. Hope begins to cuff Vivian and arrest her, but Gus awakens behind a stack of crates and topples them onto Hope and Carly. Vivian returns to the wedding at the Kiriakis mansion and lures Melanie to the rooftop terrace to hurl her off. Carly follows with Hope's gun and is about to shoot Vivian but Melanie steps in front of Vivian and is shot and falls into a coma. Victor scolds Vivian for defying him and threatens to turn her over to the police if Melanie dies. If Melanie lives however, he will get her off and ensure that Carly is sent to prison for the shooting. Vivian and Carly are both arrested after Hope's statement implicates Vivian.
Bo interrogates Vivian to no avail. Victor has hidden all evidence pointing to Vivian's involvement and she is freed. Phillip and
Daniel Jonas
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, who has recently learned that he is Melanie's father, also threaten Vivian. Melanie lives and Victor warns her that he will hand the police the evidence against her if she makes another attempt on Melanie.
Vivian, nevertheless, makes another attempt on her life, but Melanie wakes as Vivian is about to suffocate her in her hospital bed. The dazed Melanie tells Vivian to kill her, and reveals her tormented childhood to Vivian. Vivian is moved and relents. She tells the vision of Lawrence that she refuses to kill the young woman and, with Victor's encouragement, she focuses on Carly. Gus is arrested and questioned by Bo and
Hope
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, but does not give up his mistress and is released. Vivian moves out of the mansion temporarily when Phillip tells Victor that he will not return with Melanie while Vivian is there. She soon returns, however, and makes a deal with Carly. She will leave Carly and her loved ones alone if Carly will plead guilty to shooting Melanie. Melanie, angry at finding out that Carly is the mother who gave her up, does not help and is hateful towards Carly, to Vivian's delight. Hope, however, brings Melanie around, and as Carly is about to be sentenced, Melanie exonerates her by telling the judge that the shooting was an accident. Vivian is not pleased, and threatens to kill Carly, and continues to torment her, even in spite of Bo's warning to leave her alone.
Bo goes to Vivian and threatens to kill Vivian, even if it means jail time, in order to protect Carly. Victor, who does not want Bo in jail or Vivian dead, offers to marry Vivian if she will stop her vendetta, and she agrees. She learns, however, that Carly has been threatening to ruin
Chloe Lane
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's relationship with Daniel due to an affair Chloe had with Phillip. Vivian offers her support to Chloe in dealing with Carly. Vivian is married to Victor in a somber ceremony, both Victor and the attending guests are bitter and cynical about the bizarre proceedings. Chloe, however, turns to Vivian for help. Vivian gives Chloe the number of one of her past henchmen and tells Chloe to ensure that Carly is in an elevator at the hospital when the henchman instructs. Chloe is uncomfortable with killing Carly, but Vivian convinces her that it is the only way. When the time comes, however, Chloe attempts to stop the killing several times, finally pushing Carly from the elevator and ending up being dropped herself when the cable malfunctions.
Vivian, meanwhile, is on her honeymoon and Victor notices her preoccupation. He threatens to end the marriage and make her life very difficult if anything happens to Carly. Vivian, however, discovers that Chloe was in the elevator and has survived. She vows to punish Chloe for failing to kill Carly. Now, Vivian wants to get rid of
Maggie, whom she thinks Victor has eyes on. Her evil plan is similar to Carly's but putting her in a sarcophagus and try to bury her alive. With her henchman, Gus, she may be able to pull it off, but Melanie thinks Maggie is leaving town. Under the ruse of creating a celebration of
Isabella Toscano
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's (Brady's mother and Victor's daughter) life, Vivian commences her plan to kidnap and entomb Maggie in a new sarcophagus, which has supposedly been purchased to contain Isabella's remains. Vivian gets overly confident, and, hence, sloppy in the final stages of her plan. Her trusty assistant, Gus, gets cold feet and quits. Brady happens upon her plan and discovers what Vivian has planned and that she has deposited his mother's remains in a pet cemetery. Brady ends up interring Vivian in the sarcophagus rather than Maggie, to Vivian's horror. Vivian is freed by Gus and they entomb Maggie. Victor frees Maggie and plans for Vivian to be arrested but Brady decides she deserves to be free. Vivian and Gus are then dropped on an island but Brady rescues him in June. We discover that Vivian had an affair years ago and has a son Quinn who is a pimp. Quinn is blackmailing Chloe into becoming a prostitute but no one besides Chloe and Taylor knows what his occupation is. At first he doesn't get along with Vivian because she abandoned him but he soon turns around and agrees to give his mother a second chance much to Gus's dismay. Carly develops a drug addiction to Vivian's delight, however Quinn helps Carly through it and Vivian disowns him. Months later, Vivian and Quinn reconcile and Vivian's side-kick, Gus frames Quinn for a series of assaults on prostitutes when in reality, he is the culprit. On September 21, 2011 it is revealed that Quinn is innocent and Gus is guilty when Gus' latest victim (Chloe) comes out of the coma caused by his attack on her, at which time Gus takes
Nicole Walker
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hostage in the police station. Gus is eventually wrestled to the ground and hauled off to a jail cell to await trial. Vivian’s friend/former-henchman, Ivan suddenly returns to Salem, shows her the great wealth he has acquired as a
Bollywood
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movie director/producer, expresses his undying love to her, and then takes her with him to India to make her a movie star, and open a new chapter in their lives together as equals.
2017–2020
On New Year's Eve, 2017, Vivian crashes the
DiMera family's
New Year's Eve
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party claiming to have been accompanied by Stefano. In actuality, she is accompanied by her and Stefano's son,
Stefan O Dimera (
Tyler Christopher). Vivian watches in admiration as Stefan seizes control of DiMera Enterprises and lays claim to the DiMera mansion. Vivian is scheming with
Andre DiMera, but their plans end when Andre is killed by
Abigail Deveraux
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(
Marci Miller
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). During a confrontation with Kate, Vivian is shot and presumed dead. Kate tells everyone it was self-defense. In 2019, Vivian (
Robin Strasser
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Life and career
Strasser's middle name is a tribute to her being born the da ...
) is revealed to be alive. She shoots and buries Kate in the cemetery, and later pulls her tubes out when she is in hospital recovering. During an altercation with
Lani Price
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(
Sal Stowers
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), Stefan (
Brandon Barash
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From 2002 to 2004, Barash played Jamie, Paris Geller's boyfriend, in multiple epi ...
) is shot and presumed dead after trying to save his mother, leading to a devastated Vivian leaving town. In 2020, Vivian (Sorel) makes a surprising return during Lani's wedding to
Eli Grant
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(
Lamon Archey
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). She was arrested after threatening Lani with a gun. In police custody she was convinced that Jake was Stefan brought back from the dead. Ivan explained that she had twins unknowingly due to her passing out and Jake was taken from her before she awakened. She faked her death shortly after to avoid prison and disappeared again.
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