Age: 79
female
Susan Victoria Lucci is an American actress, television host, author and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama All My Children during the show's entire network run from 1970 to 2011. Previously, she starred on the 60's soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing. In 1996, TV Guide ranked Lucci number 37 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. She was named one of VH1's 200 Top Icons of All Time and one of Barbara Walters's Ten Most Fascinating People. During her run on All My Children, she was nominated 21 times for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She won only once, in 1999, after the 19th nomination; beginning in the late 1980s her status as a perpetual nominee for the award attracted significant media attention. The character she portrayed, Erica Kane, is considered an icon, and Lucci was called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times citing her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television. Lucci has also acted in other TV series, as well as occasionally in film and on stage. She had multi-episode guest appearances on the series Dallas, Hot in Cleveland and Army Wives. She hosted Saturday Night Live in 1990. After the cancellation of All My Children, she hosted the 2012-2014 true crime series Deadly Affairs and narrated its' offshoot Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love. She starred as Genevieve Delatour in the 2013-2016 Lifetime series Devious Maids.
Susan Lucci
Lauren Hannon
for Lauren Hannon in Black Christmas (1966)
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Black Christmas follows a group of sorority sisters during the Christmas holiday break as they prepare to leave their house for winter vacation. When several members decide to stay behind, they begin receiving mysterious and increasingly disturbing phone calls from an unknown caller lurking somewhere within the house itself. As the women try to determine the source of the calls and escape their predicament, they discover that a dangerous intruder has infiltrated their home. Trapped together during the festive season, the sorority sisters must band together to survive the night and unmask the killer in their midst. The film masterfully builds tension through minimal dialogue and unseen threats, creating an atmosphere of claustrophobic dread. With its innovative use of point-of-view camera work and the killer's perspective, Black Christmas pioneered many techniques that would become staples of the slasher genre. The film transforms the warmth and joy of Christmas into a backdrop for psychological horror, as the women face both external danger and their own mounting paranoia.
