General Hospital cast list

Daytime Emmy Award winning Actor Maurice Benard joined the cast of General Hospital in the role of Sonny Corinthos in August 1993. He briefly left the show for a year-long hiatus in December 1998. For his portrayal, Mr. Benard received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in 2003. He was also nominated in 1996, 1997, 2004, 2006 and 2011.

Mr. Benard's multi-cultural upbringing began in San Francisco, where he was born to parents from Nicaragua and San Salvador. Uninspired by the traditional education route, he gleaned an education in the open job market after high school. He began modeling in his early twenties. Following that, Mr. Benard took up acting in numerous theatrical productions in the Bay area.

After auditioning for a role on the ABC drama All My Children, Mr. Benard was cast as Nico Kelly. Two years later, he struck out to find new challenges and moved to Los Angeles, where he was cast as the lead in the much-publicized TV movie, Lucy and Desi: Before the Laughter. He later added a pivotal role in the feature film Ruby to several other prominent film and television credits.

Mr. Benard has been a popular voice in the battle against bipolar disorder. He has been very open about his personal battle with the illness, appearing on television programs such as The View, Entertainment Tonight, and Oprah. He has been featured in People and LA Life Magazines. He also began working with the National Mental Health Association (NMHA) on the "Bipolar Disorder: Do You Know It?" campaign to help educate Americans about the importance of recognizing the signs and symptoms of bipolar disorder.

Nancy Lee Grahn was born on 28 April 1956 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for General Hospital (1963), Santa Barbara (1984) and Babylon 5 (1993).

Becky has been in over 60 national commercials. She has been in many TV shows, including "Highway to Heaven", "L.A. Law", "Beverly Hills, 90210", "Step By Step", "Boy Meets World", "Sister Sister", and "Days of our Lives". She had a recurring role, Kristen, on "Brotherly Love". Becky has been seen recently on "Space Cases" as Suzee, before landing the role of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Webber on "General Hospital". At the age of 16, Becky had to make a choice between having a career as a competitive ice-skater, or being an actress. Becky resides in Los Angeles near her family.

An active athlete, Kelly Marie Monaco grew up on the East Coast, where she participated in soccer, swimming, track and softball, among other sports. After the last of five girls was born, her family decided to move from the bustling city of Philadelphia to the more peaceful environment of the Poconos. Monaco proudly states that she is a born competitor. In addition to athletics, she participated intensely in speech, debate and theater during high school. Monaco's television debut came in 1997, when she landed a recurring role on Baywatch (1989). She has since segued into the feature film world with roles in Idle Hands (1999), Mumford (1999) and BASEketball (1998). Raised in an Italian Catholic home, Monaco is very close with her family, especially her great-grandmother. She enjoys volunteering for children's charity events, as well as working with elders. She currently resides in West Hollywood, California.

Laura Wright was born on 11 September 1970 in Clinton, Maryland, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for General Hospital (1963), Joy (2015) and Guiding Light (1952). She was previously married to John Wright.

Dominic Zamprogna was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dominic is an actor and producer, known for Tin Star (2017), Battlestar Galactica (2004) and General Hospital (1963). Dominic has been married to Linda Leslie since 1 November 2009. They have three children.

Emmy winner and Six time Daytime Emmy nominee, Chad Duell, stepped into his own portraying Michael Corinthos, CEO of ELQ and son of Carly Corinthos and A.J. Quartermaine, on ABC's General Hospital. Leading up to this ground breaking role was a recurring role as Ronald Longcape JR on Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place, staring along side love interest Selena Gomez, and a recurring role as Holden on The Suite Life of Deck. Chad received a 2018 Emmy nomination for his now recurring role as Adam Kenway on season 3 and 4 of Amazon Prime's 'The Bay'. Recently, Chad has begun to pursue his deep passion for movies landing the role of Jack in the Lifetime Thriller 'A Friends Obsession'.

Chad, born in Chicago, raised in Scottsdale, AZ grew up very athletic, playing football, soccer and dabbling in MMA. He found his passion for acting at a young age, while attending a theatre class in high school. Deciding he had found his calling in the arts, Chad made his mind that Los Angeles was where he needed to be. He packed his bag straight out of high school, trekked out to Los Angeles, and landed his first major role less than a later.

Chad still pursues fitness and martial arts daily. He is a member of UCB, and is in constant practice of his craft and his love of acting.

Finola Hughes was born in London. She studied at Arts Educational Schools and began her career in the Northern Ballet Company, after winning the Markova award. She went on to work in the West End, in the original cast of "Cats" and continued working with Andrew Lloyd Webber in "Song & Dance". After making Staying Alive (1983) in LA, she moved to California in 1984 and began working on General Hospital (1963), winning an Emmy award in 1991. She continued to make TV series and various movies for the next few years, Jack's Place (1992), Aspen Extreme (1993), Blossom (1990), Charmed (1998), and returned to ABC daytime, in 1999, to join the cast of All My Children (1970) in New York. Once in NY, she began entering the Fashion World and returned to Los Angeles to begin a 4-year stint on the Style Network, with a fabulous makeover show, How Do I Look? (2004). She returned for a brief sojourn to General Hospital (1963), and it's spin-off, "Night Shift". Finola lives in Santa Barbara with her husband, artist Russell Young, and their 3 children.

Maura West was born on 27 April 1972 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for As the World Turns (1956), General Hospital (1963) and The Young and the Restless (1973). She has been married to Scott DeFreitas since 22 January 2000. They have four children. She was previously married to Jonathan Knight.

Roger Howarth was born on 13 September 1968 in Westchester County, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for General Hospital (1963), The Flash (2014) and One Life to Live (1968). He has been married to Cari Stahler since 1992. They have two children.

Donnell Turner was born on January 8th in Tacoma, WA. When he was a baby his family relocated to Chicago. The love for acting was born as a child when Turner participated in church plays. In high school he played basketball and played trumpet in the band. The talented athlete briefly played semi-pro basketball as a shooting guard before changing his focus to pursue acting full-time. After relocating to Los Angeles in 2001, Turner has booked more than 100 print ads worldwide including: Nike, Pepsi, Hilton, Disney, AT&T, Coke, and Infinity. In addition to these major brands, he has also worked in 9 national commercial campaigns in the United States, Europe, and South Africa. Turner was the 2014 Mercedes Benz C-Class Spokesman.

Turner has modeled ALL over the U.S. and internationally including: Hong Kong, Thailand, France, Italy, Amsterdam, Belgium, and Spain. The actor has noted that one of his favorite places in the world is Florence, Italy. He trained with Northern California Casting, Van Marr Academy, Beverly Hills Playhouse, and Lesley Kahn Acting Studios.

In 2014 and 2015 he was the lead in two important plays in Los Angeles including the classic, "The Black Doctor" (Ira Aldridge circa 1759) at the Legendary Matrix Theater, and, the modern "Crescent City Ghosts" (a tribute to the 10 year anniversary of hurricane Katrina). Turner says, "Ira Aldridge was known as the "Black Shakespeare" and I knew if I could proficiently carry the lead in that, I could do anything, performance wise! What an Honor!"

Some of his television credits include: "How To Get Away With Murder," "Dexter," " Anger Management," "Rizzoli and Isles," " 2 Broke Girls," "Revenge," "The Mindy Project," "Teen Wolf," "CSI," "90210," and "Parks and Recreation." The versatile actor is not a stranger to daytime drama. He portrayed the character of Dr. Aiden Williams opposite to Kristian Alfonso on "Days of Our Lives" for five episodes between 2009 and 2010. He also briefly portrayed a doctor on "The Young and the Restless" in 2015 for two episodes. Turner's perseverance and tenacity paid off. He grew up watching General Hospital and began writing to casting director Mark Teschner in the 1990's. He auditioned for the role of the District Attorney in 2014.

However ABC had other plans for this hidden gem, and later offered a 4-year contract to bring life to the original character created specifically for him as Curtis Ashford on "General Hospital." Since November 30th, 2015 he has been gracing our screens with his good looks, talent, skill, and charisma portraying this unpredictable anti-villain.

In reference to the craft he loves so much, Turner states, "I believe Theater training is vital for any actor."

He has given motivational speeches empowering and encouraging others across the country at high schools, colleges, religious organizations, and professional business events. On April 2, 2016 (Global Autism Awareness Day), Donnell was an honored guest speaker at the Autism Speaks Walk Now event.

Fitness is an integral part of Donnell Turner's life. Aside from a regular workout routine that includes hiking and kickboxing, which he has been practicing for 30 years. He has Firearms (9 mm) training, Knife Combat, Nun Chuckas, Submission Wrestling, Tae Kwon Do, Tang So Do, Muay Thai and Yoga. He is very proud to have studied and practiced Muay Thai in Bangkok, Thailand. You can enjoy seeing photos of him on his social media accounts; Twitter: @donnellturner1 and Instagram: Donnellturner.

Turner talks about how that urban-to-countryside transition helped him with his acting career. He said, "I moved from the concrete to the sticks and I believe that gives me range as an actor. There have been many real-world bumps in the road along the way and I choose to use everything that I've been through as a point of reference as an actor.

Matt Cohen grew up in South Florida where he played football and track in high school and also graduated with a 3.8 GPA. After high school he studied business at Florida State, where he also took some theatre classes. He then decided that he wanted to become an actor, so he moved out to LA and started to pursue his dream. 10 months after moving out to LA he went and booked a lead role as the sensitive jock, Aiden Dennison on South of Nowhere. Since then he has guest stared on various shows such as The OC, Medium, and Supernatural. He has also been in a few movies including one of the lead roles in Boogeyman 2.

All of the South of Nowhere stars tend to appear in each others work. Danso Gordon and Matt Cohen are staring together in the movie "Dark House". Mandy Musgrave guest stared on Cohen's web-series "Rockville, CA". Maeve Quinlan guest stared on Gabrielle Christian and Mandy Musgrave's web-series "Girltrash". Rob Moran, Mandy Musgrave, and Gabrielle Christian all guest stared on Quinlan's web-series "3way". Cohen and Moran are starring along side one another in the upcoming movie "The Outside". Cohen, Musgrave, and Vallery Ortiz all co-stared in Marisa Lauren's music video for her song 'Ladylike'. Vallery Ortiz is said to also be the star in Marisa Lauren's video for her song 'Katie Katie' whenever they film the video. Marisa Lauren and Eileen Boylan both guest star in "Greek"

Matt, Marisa Lauren, and Danso Gordon were the oldest of the cast members that played high school students on South of Nowhere. All three played characters between the ages of 16 and 18 on the show. Matt was 23 when the show first began, Marisa was 25, and Danso was 26.

Born in Inglewood, California, Michael was raised and educated in both the US and Ireland - the homeland of his parents - and double majored in English and History at UCLA. He traveled through Europe, parts of Africa and India, supporting himself as a bartender and in various construction jobs. All the while he photographed, wrote, and chronicled his experiences. It was probably the best education anyone could have had - and almost certainly influenced his work later as an actor and award-winning writer-director.

His first major series role was on "Days of Our Lives"; he got the part of Tanner Scofield when he was 25, and this began a long relationship with Daytime. Michael was also named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful", appeared in several primetime television movies, and things began to click for his career as an actor. But he put everything on hold when his mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer two years later in 1993, and returned to Los Angeles to care for her until her death in 1994.

Michael returned to acting with Fox's VR-5 as Duncan, and followed up with an intriguing turn as identical twin brothers in legendary showrunner Stephen J. Cannell's "Two", for which he wrote the episodes "AD" and the series finale, "The Reckoning". His appearance on the iconic series "Ally McBeal", as nude model Glen, was almost as memorable as the Dancing Baby. The episode went on to win an Emmy, and Michael continued to play the role on both "Ally McBeal" and sister show, "The Practice" - both brainchildren of series producer David Kelley.

In 1997 he landed a role on Damon Wayans' 413 Hope Street with Jesse L. Martin and Richard Roundtree. Easton played Nick Carrington, a former drug addict and counselor at an inner-city crisis center. The show tackled topics including the struggles of drug addiction and recovery, homelessness, racism, hate crimes, HIV and AIDS, social justice, income inequality, and disproportionate Black conviction and incarceration. Easton later described the experience as one of the most creatively and personally rewarding of his career.

After a Gemini-nominated turn as the detective David Hume in Showtime's "Total Recall 2070", Michael returned to Daytime with ABC's "Port Charles", a spinoff of "General Hospital" - with a decidedly more supernatural bent - and the start of an extraordinary run playing an unprecedented five characters within the overall "General Hospital" universe.

Michael helped shape and create the now-iconic Caleb Morley - a vampire, rockstar, and bad boy the viewers loved. The character was wildly popular with viewers and was arguably a forerunner to later vampire protagonists in "Angel", "True Blood", "The Vampire Diaries", and even "Twilight". When "Port Charles" ended, Michael began work as John McBain on "One Life to Live" in 2003 - a role he played for the next nine years - and later carried over to "General Hospital". Currently he plays Dr. Hamilton Finn, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist. His performance as the character battled addiction and subsequent struggle in withdrawal and recovery earned him a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2018.

His 2011 graphic novel trilogy "Soul Stealer" was a critical success and praised by Aint It Cool News as "Graphic Novel of the Year". Michael's story, combined with artist Christopher Shy's masterful visualizations, made for a stunning partnership of words and pictures. Michael had also struck a friendship with Peter Straub - who had been a dedicated "One Life to Live" viewer. The author visited the set in New York and left a gift in Michael's mailbox - a copy of his novel "Koko". It was a novel Michael's mother had loved, and in that way things have of coming full circle, Michael later collaborated with Straub, writing the terrifying novel "The Green Woman" for DC Comics.

A proud member of the Writers Guild of America, Michael also adapted and wrote the screenplay for "Daedelus is Dead", a short film based on an unfinished script by Doors legend Jim Morrison. The film has screened at more than a dozen major film festivals and was bought by The Sundance Channel. His feature detailing the life of actor Montgomery Clift is being produced by Relativity Media, while another screenplay about Ella Fitzgerald is in development with Norman Lear.

Michael penned the gritty novel "Credence", published by Blackwatch Comcs - a company he formed and co-owns with Christopher Shy and Emmalee Pearson. In 2015, he also wrote and directed short films "Dreamliner" and the award-winning "Ultraviolent" - both starring his friend and former OLTL castmate Trevor St. John. In 2020 he teamed up again with St. John, and former co-stars Sherri Saum and Rebecca Budig on the short film About a Girl, written by Budig and directed by Easton. The film won the Outstanding Achievement Award in the 2020 Best Shorts Film Festival, praising the "Deft direction, beautiful craft, and achingly authentic performance by Budig."

Kirsten Storms was born on 8 April 1984 in Orlando, Florida, USA. She is an actress, known for Days of Our Lives (1965), Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999) and General Hospital (1963). She was previously married to Brandon Barash.

Chloe Lanier was raised just outside of Dallas, Texas. She moved to Los Angeles with $200 to her name and proceeded to spend it all at the ArcLight. She won an Emmy for "Outstanding Younger Actress" for her notable work as "Nelle Benson" on General Hospital. She splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.

Joshua Swickard was born in central Illinois to a pastor and vocal coach, Bob and Gina Swickard. He is the second oldest of four, with three sisters. After graduating from high school, Josh moved to Chicago to study accounting at College of DuPage. After two years, he left to start a career as a model, modeling for companies such as Men's Health, Sports Illustrated, Guess, Jockey, Finish Line, Kohl's, Nordstrom, and others.

He made his television debut as a recurring guest star on the Disney Channel shows "Liv and Maddie" and "K.C Undercover" and just finished filming his first feature coming out next year starring as a rodeo cowboy. Josh appears on ABC's General Hospital as Detective Harrison Chase.

He enjoys singing, dancing, and playing the drums when he's not working. His hobbies include snow skiing, hiking, reading, and volunteering for non-profit organizations in Central America