1. Greenlee Smythe is a fictional character from the American daytime drama, All My Children.
102 Facts About Greenlee Smythe
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Greenlee Smythe was originally portrayed by actress Rebecca Budig from August 11,1999 to November 30,2005, and was portrayed by actress Sabine Singh from April 20,2007 to January 15,2008.
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Greenlee Smythe became one of daytime television's top bad girls, but later reformed into a heroine.
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Greenlee Smythe is noted as the last currently-airing, major daytime character to be created by show creator Agnes Nixon.
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When producers at All My Children were looking for a new villainess to wreak havoc in fictional town Pine Valley, they created character Greenlee Smythe, inspired by the likes of Erica Kane and Kendall Hart.
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Judy Blye Wilson, AMC casting director told me that Greenlee Smythe was a bad girl who comes to Pine Valley and causes trouble.
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Wilson's take on bringing in Budig as Greenlee Smythe hinged on her belief that it was a no-brainer.
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Greenlee Smythe was given a week to leave quietly and told that Rebecca was coming back.
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Greenlee Smythe stated that her life is in Los Angeles, and that ABC did a lot to make the transition easier for her.
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Greenlee Smythe said "the amazing AMC fans, [who] have been nothing short of supportive, loving and giving on my behalf".
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Greenlee Smythe is a young upper class woman from one of Pine Valley's richest families.
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Greenlee Smythe has an affair with Scott Chandler at college, and wants to resume it when they return home to Pine Valley.
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Greenlee Smythe continues to pursue Ryan even as she and Leo are growing closer.
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When Ryan steals $3 million from his internet company, Greenlee Smythe covers for him, by borrowing the money from loan shark Wade Randall.
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Jealous of his friendships with Bianca and Laura English, a drugged Greenlee Smythe pushes Laura off a yacht, while a horrified Bianca looks on.
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Greenlee Smythe later makes good on her threat and publicly outs Bianca.
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When Greenlee Smythe proposes to Leo, he accepts, though he is worried that she will find out that his original interest in her was to steal her trust fund.
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Greenlee Smythe proves herself to be an asset, and realizes that she wants to reunite with Leo, who is engaged to a dying Laura.
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Greenlee Smythe moved in with Jake into his apartment, and Jake was her friend and someone she could lean on and trust.
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Greenlee Smythe helps Erica run Enchantment after Erica is arrested for murdering Leo's cousin Frankie Stone, a young woman who was romantically involved with Bianca.
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Leo believes Greenlee Smythe has made her choice of who she wants to be with.
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Jake reveals to Greenlee Smythe he is still in love with her and they kissed while still stranded on the island, but her unwillingness to commit to Jake leads Jake to walk away from her for good and move on with his life.
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Greenlee Smythe's upcoming wedding to Leo brings Greenlee's mother, Mary Smythe, back into her life.
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When Greenlee Smythe learns that Mary is only being kind to her so her grandfather will put Mary back into his will, Greenlee Smythe cuts her off and her dependency on Leo intensifies.
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Greenlee Smythe cannot come to grips with life without Leo and wants to kill herself on multiple occasions, but she is able to go on with the help and support of her brother-in-law, David Hayward.
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Greenlee Smythe does begin to develop romantic feelings for Fusion's handyman Carlos Reyes, who has been sending her romantic poems anonymously through the company's email system.
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Greenlee Smythe is able to forgive him when she learns his sister actually wrote the poems, but the relationship ends when Greenlee manipulates his friend Diane Lacey, owner of Lacey's department store, to help the company.
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Greenlee Smythe is again able to support her when Michael Cambias attempts a hostile takeover of Fusion.
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Skeptical, Greenlee Smythe becomes obsessed with proving it to be a lie, and when Kendall is put on trial for Michael's murder, she barges in on them and rips off Kendall's dress to reveal a fake pregnancy pad.
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Greenlee Smythe is stricken to learn that the ruse was designed to help Bianca, who really was pregnant with her rapist's child.
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Greenlee Smythe wears it when she leaves for Paris with Maggie Stone and her Miranda, whose death had been faked.
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Greenlee Smythe begins experiencing blurred vision, loss of impulse control, and fugue states.
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Kendall manages to save her friend, but she is the first suspect when it is revealed that Greenlee Smythe was being poisoned with overdoses of an anti-psychotic drug.
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Greenlee Smythe thinks having a baby could help Ryan get over his losses, but fearing his family's violent past, Ryan chooses to have a vasectomy.
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Greenlee Smythe learns that Ryan has donated sperm years earlier, and with Leo's brother Dr David Hayward's help, she steals the sperm from Dr Greg Madden's fertility clinic.
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Greenlee Smythe's body is never recovered and Greenlee is left to mourn another husband.
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Furious that he would fake his death, Greenlee Smythe decides to divorce Ryan and keep the surrogacy secret so he will leave town.
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Greenlee Smythe is further devastated when she learns the shocking truth about Kendall's pregnancy.
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Kendall fully intended to let Greenlee Smythe raise the baby as her own, and not tell her the truth.
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Greenlee Smythe reclaims the shares of Fusion she gave to Babe Carey, a former foe of Kendall's, and eventually forces her out of the company.
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Babe had secured an important music deal with Zarf, and Greenlee Smythe is forced to rehire her, much to the delight of Ryan's new wife Annie Lavery and their friends Di Henry, Amanda Dillon and Kendall herself, who lauded Babe's achievements at Fusion in Grennlee's absence.
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Greenlee Smythe learns that Kendall's new husband Zach Slater was responsible for a power outage the left her eggs not viable for implantation, and decides to sue for custody of the resulting child, Spike.
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Aidan and Greenlee Smythe develop a romantic interest in each other, while Zach and Babe's husband JR Chandler scheme to have her leave town.
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Greenlee Smythe is able to help Ryan and Aidan avoid prosecution for the attempted murder of Annie's evil brother Richie Novak, and Erica and Jack's relationship comes to an end when Erica schemes to have Greenlee leave town as well.
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Tired of the feud, Greenlee Smythe decides to plead guilty, but Aidan helps her escape.
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However, with Aidan's love and the support of her family and friends, Greenlee Smythe revives in a Christmas miracle.
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Aidan and Greenlee Smythe love continues to grow stronger, though he feels guilty about sleeping with Kendall.
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Aidan proposes, but a wary Greenlee Smythe initially turns him down before accepting.
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Greenlee Smythe ends things with Aidan, and attempts to seduce Zach for revenge.
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Greenlee Smythe eventually agrees to forgive Aidan, but maintains that they can only be friends.
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Not long after, Greenlee Smythe has a boating accident when a sail hits her head.
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Aidan leaves Greenlee Smythe, who helps Ryan rescue his daughter Emma from Annie, who has become increasingly unstable after she killed Richie.
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Ryan and Greenlee Smythe are both divorced and decide to reunite, and on December 30,2008, he proposes.
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Greenlee Smythe initially turns him down, fearing Annie's increasingly psychotic threats against them, but ultimately accepts.
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When Greenlee Smythe tries to confirm that Zach is having an affair with Reese, she drives off on her motorcycle to confront her friend.
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Ryan feels guilty, and Jack gives him a video that Greenlee Smythe made for him, where she states she wants him to be happy with or without her.
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Greenlee Smythe has been comatose for the past year and has no memory of the accident.
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Greenlee Smythe tells David that she wants to do the surgery, but if she dies during surgery, not to tell anybody that she was alive before her death.
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Out for revenge, Greenlee Smythe asks David to bring her a hard-drive hidden in Ryan's house.
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Greenlee Smythe puts the hard-drive into Fusion's computer and it crashes all the files.
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Greenlee Smythe feels that she has not done enough and decides to stay in Pine Valley.
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Greenlee Smythe asks David to marry her, hoping that when she walks down the aisle at her wedding, everyone will be surprised, and that Ryan will be hurt.
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Jack cannot believe his eyes when Greenlee Smythe appears before him.
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Just as Jack, Erica and Ryan walk in, Greenlee Smythe reveals herself as the bride.
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Greenlee Smythe defends David, insisting he is the one who is going to take care of her now.
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Ryan lets Greenlee Smythe go but remains confident they will get back together one day.
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Greenlee Smythe explains to David why it is so important to her that they get married: It will protect her from falling back in love with Ryan.
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Greenlee Smythe becomes increasingly interested in what really happened the night of her accident.
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Greenlee Smythe gets on Erica's computer and sees a picture of Kendall on a boat and so she goes to find her.
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Greenlee Smythe finds Kendall, who tells her everything that happened, including her affair with Ryan and that she was the one who drove her off the road.
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Greenlee Smythe accuses Kendall of doing it on purpose so that she could have Ryan.
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Since Greenlee Smythe has been gone, and Kendall left to repair her relationship with husband Zach, Erica has been running Fusion.
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Now that Greenlee Smythe is back, she wants Fusion back too.
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Greenlee Smythe makes a deal under wraps that is later ruined by Erica, who sees the important contract papers on Jackson's desk.
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Greenlee Smythe realizes she needs to pull out the big guns to win back the company she created and loves like a child.
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Greenlee Smythe ends up letting the residents of Pine Valley know that she knew Erica had planned on taking a plane from West Virginia.
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Greenlee Smythe sees David standing over Ryan as he is lying on the ground bleeding, and David does nothing to help him.
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David asks Greenlee Smythe to have dinner with him before she leaves; during dinner, David blackmails her.
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Greenlee Smythe says that he will go to police and say she was the one who sabotaged Erica's plane if she does not agree to stay in their marriage.
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Greenlee Smythe is at first shocked and upset, but eventually "agrees" to David's terms.
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Greenlee Smythe tells Ryan that David is blackmailing her in order to stay married to him.
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Greenlee Smythe manufactured evidence incriminating Greenlee in Erica's plane crash, which he is using to blackmail her.
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Greenlee Smythe is sentenced to life in prison for David's death.
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Once David explains the truth about the night he was supposedly murdered, the charges against Greenlee Smythe are dropped, while David is sent to prison in her place.
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When Zach dies in a plane crash, Greenlee Smythe feels responsible because Zach was trying to help her, and Kendall blames her for exactly the same reason.
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Greenlee Smythe discovers Ryan's ex-girlfriend, Madison North, is pregnant with Ryan's child by breaking into a hospital computer with David's hospital card.
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Greenlee Smythe confronts Madison who tells Greenlee she has no idea what she wants to do yet.
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Greenlee Smythe is haunted by this and soon starts to daydream about Ryan and Madison and their baby.
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Greenlee Smythe gets Madison to the hospital and both Madison and Greenlee Smythe learn the baby is okay.
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Greenlee Smythe offers to help Madison start over in New York.
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Madison happily accepts and thanks Greenlee Smythe for saving her and the baby.
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Greenlee Smythe makes him an offer; she will give him a job as co-owner of Pine Valley Hospital if he befriends Madison.
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At Scott's request, Greenlee Smythe testifies at his parole hearing and Scott is released.
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Later, Greenlee Smythe confronts David, who notices she is wearing a ring, one that he had not given to her.
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Greenlee Smythe calls it using Scott's phone and Emma picks up.
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Greenlee Smythe says that it is too soon; when Ryan asks questions what is too soon, Greenlee sees her and blurts out that Madison's pregnant.
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Greenlee Smythe tries her best to calm down Ryan, but nothing she does helps.
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Marissa does not initially believe her, but is convinced when Greenlee Smythe gives her some solid points and shows her the photos.
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Greenlee Smythe tells David that she saw someone else besides herself, him and Gale, in the hospital room.
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Greenlee Smythe admits that there is someone in the room and that he will help her.
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When Greenlee Smythe wakes up, she sees Leo, laying on the hospital bed.
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Greenlee Smythe is soon brought back from The Orpheus Project that David created.