Susan Lucci was born on December 23, 1946 in Scarsdale, New York, and is a Daytime Emmy Award winning actress, who has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" and "The Queen of Daytime".

Lucci is famous for the role of Erica Kane on the ABC television soap opera All My Children, on which she has appeared since the show's inception on January 5, 1970.

Lucci has also appeared in a number of television shows and made-for-TV movies. In 1990 she began a series of guest spots on the popular nighttime soap Dallas and hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live in October of the same year. In 1995, Lucci appeared in the Lifetime television movie Ebbie. This film was an updated version of Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol. Lucci played a Scrooge-like department store owner visited by Marley and the three ghosts on Christmas. Many critics praised her performance and the film has become a holiday favorite.

Lucci was nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy for her work on All My Children almost every year since 1978. After eighteen failed nominations in a row, it came as a shock to both her and the viewing audience when she finally won it in 1999.

For much of the 1980s and into the 1990s Lucci did many commercials for the local Ford dealers in the New York City area. In early 2005, Lucci earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Lucci's father is Italian and her mother is Swedish; both are first-generation Americans. She is the mother of fellow soap actress Liza Huber.

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