105 Facts About Dinah Marler

Dinah Marler is a fictional character from the CBS Daytime soap opera Guiding Light, last portrayed by Gina Tognoni from July 5,2004 to September 18,2009.

Vanessa gave birth to Dinah Marler at the age of seventeen in 1970 and felt she was incapable of being a good mother to her newborn at the time.

In time, she would be placed with a foster family the Morgans who took in another girl, Adele, whom Dinah Marler became very close to.

Dinah Marler ran away from the Morgans and found a new foster family, the Kowalskis, that worked at a carnival, but 1986, Dinah was tired of the carnival life and left for Springfield to find her long lost foster sister, Adele.

Dorie would go on to be adopted by India von Halkein and Dinah Marler moved into the von Halkein residence as well.

Meanwhile, Ross and Vanessa had reunited and although Dinah Marler was happy about that, her parents ended up separating again.

In 1988, Dinah Marler suspected George and his criminal partner, Nicky Sutton of smuggling drugs in cars through Frank's garage.

One day, when Dinah Marler was alone in the Stewart house with George, she tried to get George to leave Cam alone.

Fortunately Cam was visiting Ross, and Cam realized that Dinah Marler was at his house with his father and not at Ross's as Dinah Marler had led to believe.

Wyatt got Cam and Dinah Marler to agree to let him be nearby when George was arrested.

Meanwhile, Alan-Michael had enough of Dinah Marler being involved with Cam's personal problems and he and Dinah Marler broke up.

In February 1989 Dinah Marler departed Springfield to go to college in Paris and Cameron followed her.

Dinah Marler returned to Springfield in 1995 a changed woman, sophisticated and spoiled from living in Europe.

Days later, Dinah Marler was shocked when she came across an old acquaintance named Viktor Pasternak.

For Blake her plan was not totally successful; not only could not she make out who Dinah Marler was speaking with, while she listened in on her, but Dinah Marler caught on and starting speaking in code with Viktor.

When Matt left the briefcase at the specified location near the railroad tracks for Viktor, instead of going back home, he instinctively went to the abandoned underground factory and found Dinah Marler there tied up and gagged.

Dinah Marler immediately released her gag, while Viktor found the money and headed back to the abandoned factory.

Angry at her parents, Dinah Marler lashed out by sleeping with the town villain, Roger Thorpe, who was Blake's father.

Roger eventually found Hart and when strain in Roger's marriage to Dinah Marler emerged, Hart got Dinah Marler to sleep with him and then gleefully revealed the fact to his enraged dad.

Already angry with Roger for his thievery, Dinah Marler got worse when she was told Roger had faked his heart attack.

Dinah Marler bought a gun and went into Roger's hospital room with the intention of killing him.

Dinah Marler decided not to divorce Roger and then she and Hart did all kinds of things to make Roger question his mental faculties.

Roger did not realize what was happening because he thought Dinah Marler and Hart hated each other and that she was an airhead.

Dinah Marler attacked Hart several times, choked Dinah with a scarf, began drugging Dinah and tried to convince her to kill herself while on it.

Suddenly after Dinah Marler refused to corroborate Roger's story, he realized he had been set up all along and attacked his son.

At a second competency hearing, Hart and Dinah Marler were discovered together and a "kind, benevolent" Roger, he had never undergone the shock therapy and was pretending, was finally released from the mental hospital.

Dinah Marler got a surprise visit from her old lover from France, Jean-Luc.

Jean Luc and Dinah Marler had lived together for two years and he told Hart that he regretted kicking her out and wanted her back.

Dinah Marler told Jean Luc that she was still mad at him for throwing her out and that they were together a long time ago.

Things got tenser after a trip to Switzerland, where Jean Luc arranged for Dinah Marler to be reunited by her jet-setting friends.

Not understanding how Dinah Marler could have such shallow friends, Hart confided his frustrations to Bridget, which only fueled Dinah Marler's jealousy.

Finally, fearing she was about to lose Hart, Dinah Marler agreed to tell her friends that they had to leave.

Dinah Marler's mother had mysteriously died but was later found alive and well; she had been battling an illness and when told that passing on the illness was a possibility, Dinah began to have second thoughts about having children with Hart, whom she had eventually reunited with, something that did not please him.

When Dinah Marler continued to have doubts about having children, despite Hart's having learned from Vanessa's doctor that the possibility was slight, it became apparent that perhaps Dinah Marler just did not want to have children.

Dinah Marler eventually lost Hart, due to her meddling in Cassie's quest to get her daughter back.

Dinah Marler started obsessing with finding a way to win him back, alienating herself from her family.

Dinah Marler's plan worked with Hart believing that Dinah had changed and they reconciled.

Later, Dinah Marler was devastated when Hart broke their engagement saying that he no longer loved her.

Dinah Marler further enticed him with the concept that she had help him get custody of Tammy, Cassie's daughter.

Dinah Marler broke into Michael's apartment to see what she could find.

The plan worked and Dinah Marler told Hart that she was pregnant with his child.

Marcus, a friend, who figured out what Dinah Marler had done, tried to convince her to do the right thing; she was obsessed with getting Hart back and went along with the lie.

Dinah Marler later was able to bribe the doctor to convince Hart that a test was too dangerous.

Tragically, days after learning that Cassie herself was pregnant, Dinah Marler miscarried: while sneaking around by the farm, she was accidentally hit by a door by Hart, who wanted to see who was trespassing.

Dinah Marler then used his guilt as well as her mother's blood pressure pills to con him into staying with her.

Dinah Marler then locked the doors and drove into a snowstorm, ranting about how Cassie's ruined her life.

Just then, Cassie started to go into labor but Dinah Marler did not believe her.

Angry, Dinah Marler moved off telling Cassie to let Hart save her.

Totally unbalanced by now, Dinah Marler got angry with Hart for rejecting her and retaliated by breaking into his room at the Springfield Inn.

That day, Dinah Marler freaked out when Vanessa mentioned having her committed, and she called her father to come help her.

Dinah Marler aimed the antique gun at Cassie, who plead with Dinah Marler to realize that Hart would find out Laura was not his baby one way or another.

At that moment, Hart walked in and jumped in front of Cassie as Dinah Marler pulled the trigger.

Dinah Marler was critically wounded, and as a devastated Dinah fled to her mother for help, Cassie had Hart rushed to the hospital.

Vanessa was devastated by what her daughter did and wanted Dinah Marler to explain the accidental shooting to the police but Dinah Marler insisted that she would kill herself first, and Vanessa decided to hide her.

Matt grabbed Dinah Marler and planned to turn her in, but backed down when Dinah Marler revealed that her mother would never forgive him.

Days later, Vanessa arranged for Dinah Marler to fly to Switzerland where the nuns who took care of her during her illness would help Dinah Marler disappear.

Dinah Marler was mentioned in June 2002 when Ross saw Vanessa at Josh and Reva Lewis's wedding.

The truth about what Dinah Marler had been doing would come to light in the summer of 2004 when Cassie discovered that a mysterious woman, in Europe, was using her credit cards.

In Springfield, Dinah Marler contacted Ross, who urged Dinah Marler to turn herself in, which she did.

Dinah Marler admitted she had her sights set on Jeffrey and against his better judgment, Edmund created an alliance with her.

Later, Dinah Marler secretly called Jeffrey to convince him she was still safe and sound in Europe.

Jeffrey continued to hunt for Dinah Marler, finally finding her in Bill's apartment.

Dinah Marler tried to threaten her into leaving town, again but she broke down his defenses and the pair almost wound up making love.

Cassie became trapped under falling debris, but Dinah Marler saved the day by rescuing RJ and alerting Edmund and Jeffrey to Cassie.

Dinah Marler was finally caught and sent to jail for Hart's death.

Dinah Marler, despite being warned to forget about Cassie and move on with her life, decided to take from Cassie what was taken from her.

So, deciding to steal Edmund away from Cassie, Dinah Marler set it up so he would spot her drunkenly attempting to strip in a bar.

Meanwhile, Dinah Marler continued to fuel Edmund's jealousy of Jeffrey by setting it up so he would see a picture of Jeffrey with Cassie in Jeffrey's apartment.

Dinah Marler then gave Tammy her car keys and suggested that she go away to think.

Dinah Marler then informed Jeffrey that she told Tammy to go to Chicago, setting it up so the two could leave together.

Dinah Marler then seduced Jeffrey, but he discovered her true motive for the seduction when he found out that she had poked holes in his condom.

Dinah Marler initially taunted him by implying that she was pregnant, but was later devastated to learn that she was not.

Dinah Marler confirmed what she had seen and then encouraged Jeffrey to tell Cassie what he had learned.

In 2005, Dinah Marler was pleasantly surprised to see Cassie's trouble-making nephew Jonathan Randall head up to Cassie's room at the Beacon.

The next morning, the day of Cassie and Edmund's wedding, Dinah Marler summoned Edmund to the hotel.

Meanwhile, Dinah Marler was pleased when Blake informed her that she had dropped the restraining order against her, out of gratitude for not ruining Cassie's wedding day.

However, Dinah Marler was still intent on breaking up the happy couple and decided to help fuel Edmund's growing jealousy by anonymously sending Cassie flowers.

Later, Dinah Marler piqued Jonathan's interest when she told him about the fire in the barn.

Days later, after being accused of setting a small fire to the barn, Dinah Marler finally told Edmund what she knew about Jonathan and Cassie.

Angry beyond belief, Edmund raced off to confront Jonathan while Dinah Marler went and told Cassie what Edmund knew.

Dinah Marler then invited Dinah to stay at the farm so he could take care of her.

Dinah Marler finally informed Cassie that she was pregnant with her and Edmund's baby.

Extremely uncomfortable, Dinah Marler wanted to tell Cassie the truth, but Edmund kept putting it off.

Dinah Marler convinced Dinah to record a goodbye message to Ross.

When she awoke, Dinah Marler found herself being held captive in an exact replica of the Jessup farmhouse.

Later, Dinah Marler swiped Edmund's cell phone and later used it to call Cassie.

Dinah Marler finally tried to reason with Edmund and convince him that his plan would not work, to which Edmund refused to listen.

Dinah Marler repeatedly tried to escape Edmund but failed each time.

Concerned about Dinah Marler, he followed Edmund and found himself outside the recreated farmhouse where Edmund was keeping Dinah Marler.

Worried that she would not get out alive, Dinah Marler decided to trick Edmund by hiding in a crevice in the farmhouse.

Dinah Marler's plan worked, for when Edmund returned he could not find her.

That night, Dinah Marler was taken to Cedars where she apologized to Cassie for all she had done.

Later, Mallet shocked Dinah Marler by asking her to move in with him.

Still not secure, a wary Dinah Marler asked if this was his way of telling Harley that he is tired of being her back-up guy.

Immediately suspecting her father was having an affair, Dinah Marler ranted about him abandoning his wife and children to go to Washington DC.

Dinah Marler was only silenced when Blake slapped her face and yelled at Dinah to not speak about her father that way.

Dinah Marler returned to make peace, stating that her half-siblings are all she had left of her father.

Vanessa was certain that Dinah Marler had finally grown up and met the man of her dreams, but Matt was extremely skeptical that this wedding was ever going to happen and made that abundantly clear to Vanessa, Dinah Marler and Mallet.

When Mallet pressed Matt about his negative attitude, Matt stated that Dinah Marler was the most self-destructive person he had ever met.

However, when an upset Dinah Marler professed her love for Mallet and vowed that she would not mess this up, Matt apologized for letting the past color his feelings.

Mallet confronted Dinah Marler and begged her to admit that she started the fire.

Dinah Marler then told him to let their relationship go.

Dinah Marler saw through her act and accused Blake of wanting Jeffrey all to herself.

Dinah Marler resolves to help him one way or another, but he slaps her hand away as he struggles with his wheelchair.

Later, Dinah Marler finds her crippled soldier starting a fight at a bar and stares at him in disbelief.