1. Lucky Spencer is a fictional character from the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital.
85 Facts About Lucky Spencer
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Lucky Spencer is the son of Luke and Laura Spencer.
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Lucky Spencer's birth having been announced on-screen in 1985, a ten-year-old Lucky was cast in 1993, played by newcomer at the time, Jonathan Jackson.
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Lucky's characterization changed throughout the different portrayers; originally a street-smart con artist, Lucky develops an edge during Young's tenure and more drastically changes during Vaughan's portrayal, as Lucky becomes a struggling police officer.
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Lucky Spencer is kidnapped and presumed dead in 1999, and returns brainwashed in 2000.
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Lucky Spencer becomes a police officer in 2003, and faces financial and marital struggles during the following years, as well as prescription drug abuse.
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Jackson received numerous accolades for his portrayal of Lucky Spencer, including five Daytime Emmy Awards.
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Lucky Spencer suggested a short-term return that could coincide with the departure of co-star Rebecca Herbst should she not renew her contract, allowing for periodic returns from the couple later on.
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Lucky Spencer cited a desire to pursue music and film work at the time, later admitting monetary contract disagreements as the reason he left.
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In June 2015, Entertainment Weekly revealed that Jackson would briefly reprise the role of Lucky Spencer, to be a part of the exit storyline of actor Anthony Geary.
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Lucky Spencer first appears in October 1993, as a ten-year-old that has spent his life on the run from mobster Frank Smith with his parents, Luke and Laura Spencer.
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Smith finds them living in British Columbia, Canada, and Lucky Spencer is sent ahead to Port Charles for safety.
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Lulu is diagnosed with aplastic anemia, and Lucky Spencer is shocked to learn about his half-brother Nikolas Cassadine, who arrives to donate bone marrow and becomes instant rivals with Lucky Spencer.
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Lucky Spencer helps Luke investigate Stefan Cassadine's computer game Timoria, and they find his presumed dead grandmother Lesley Webber.
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In early 2000, Helena lets Lucky Spencer go and it becomes clear he has been brainwashed.
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Helena uses the Ice Princess diamond to make Lucky Spencer act violently and erases Lucky Spencer's memories of love for Elizabeth.
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Luke is unhappy that Lucky Spencer has become a cop, causing various rifts between them.
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In February 2004, Lucky Spencer almost dies during a fire at the Port Charles Hotel.
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Lucky Spencer is suspended for helping Nikolas when he presumably kills Helena.
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Lucky Spencer finds Helena, who shoots him, putting him into a coma.
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Lucky Spencer almost dies in a train crash on the way to their honeymoon, and again during an encephalitis outbreak in February 2006.
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Lucky Spencer lets Lucky believe he is the father to avoid him relapsing.
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Lucky Spencer starts dating Jason's ex-girlfriend Sam McCall as they divorce.
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In November 2007, Lucky Spencer discovers the truth about Jake, but agrees to the secret to protect him from Jason's dangerous lifestyle.
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In early 2009, Elizabeth is poisoned by a biotoxin and Lucky Spencer stays by her bedside.
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Lucky Spencer is approached by Interpol to pose as Irish hitman Ronan O'Reilly and identify "The Balkan".
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Lucky Spencer brings Siobhan McKenna home for safety, and asks her to marry him so she can get a green card.
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In March 2011, Elizabeth finds out Lucky Spencer is Aiden's father, but keeps it a secret after Jake is killed in a hit-and-run accident.
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Lucky Spencer helps convince Elizabeth to donate Jake's kidney to Josslyn Jacks.
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Lucky Spencer finds out Luke hit Jake and accuses him of drunk driving, staging an unsuccessful intervention.
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Elizabeth finds Lucky Spencer but gets in a car accident that puts Siobhan in the hospital on her way to get him medication.
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Anthony kills Siobhan and Lucky Spencer uses pills when he finds her dead.
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Lucky Spencer receives a mysterious message that Aiden is hurt just in time to get him to the hospital.
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Lucky Spencer recognizes someone, later revealed to be his mother Laura.
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In 2013, Ethan reveals that Lucky Spencer is in Africa, doing volunteer work.
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The original introduction story for Lucky Spencer was planned to have the child in need of a bone marrow transplant, a story later used on Lucky Spencer's younger sister Lulu.
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Lucky Spencer had spent his life on the run with his parents, and is independent, street-smart and quick-witted.
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Lucky Spencer plays cons with his parents and is always able to make a quick get away; in his introduction storyline, he travels from Canada to Port Charles on his own when his parents have to send him ahead for safety.
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Lucky Spencer later is able to stay one step ahead of his parents when he and his friend Emily Quartermaine briefly run away.
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Lucky Spencer has a loving relationship with his unconventional parents, who often treat him as a friend and peer, especially his father.
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Lucky Spencer has loving parents, a baby sister, a loyal dog, and even a little bit of danger in his life.
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The betrayal Lucky Spencer feels from having the truth kept from him has a drastic impact on the character, especially because of how close he had been with his parents.
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Lucky Spencer felt everything so deeply, and the reactions I gave as an actor came from me trying to wrap my own brain around everything that happened to him.
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In 1998, Lucky Spencer enters into a relationship with Elizabeth Webber that affects his character throughout the years.
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Lucky Spencer protectively cares for her, and as their on-screen relationship gradually progresses to friendship and innocent romance, the characters' off-screen popularity made them known as a supercouple.
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Lucky Spencer definitely has more of an edge now than he did before.
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Lucky Spencer maintains his edgier nature as his relationship with Elizabeth falls apart as a result of Helena's damage, and later on as he deals with his mother's mental breakdown and catatonia.
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Lucky Spencer was a visually older actor than Young and Jackson, and Lucky's storylines grew to become more adult as well.
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In 2005, Lucky Spencer is repaired with Elizabeth and becomes the stepfather to her son Cameron.
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Lucky Spencer's addiction leads to an affair with Maxie Jones, who supplies him pills and fakes a pregnancy in an attempt to make him stay with her.
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Elizabeth finds out about the affair and sleeps with Jason, becoming pregnant and telling Lucky Spencer he is the father.
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Meanwhile, Lucky Spencer's misfortune continues as his best friend Emily Quartermaine is murdered the same night his father has a heart attack.
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Jackson returned to the role in October 2009, and viewers wondered if Lucky Spencer would regain original character traits that had changed over the years and different actors.
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Jackson stated that he had not seen the other actors' portrayal of Lucky Spencer and was basing his reprisal on his experience of creating the role.
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I'm coming with the strength of originating the character and working with Tony [Geary] and Genie [Francis] at a young age in sort of defining who Lucky Spencer was and is.
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Lucky Spencer described his portrayal as working through the contradictory traits Lucky inherited from his parents, the purity of Laura versus the con artist side of Luke.
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Lucky Spencer explained that he was taking the essence of being their son and translating him into adulthood.
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Lucky Spencer becomes stuck between the two sides of the law.
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Lucky Spencer has been doing a lot of that straight cop stuff.
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They've had Luke and Lucky Spencer pitted against each other for a while, so it'd be nice to pair them up.
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Lucky Spencer just knows that Nikolas did make her feel more like a woman and that in her relationship with Lucky she's very much still that 16-year-old girl that constantly needs to be saved.
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That's kind of the role that Lucky Spencer has played in her life.
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Now Lucky Spencer seems like a whole person , as opposed to a fractured character sliced up over the years by the writers, and fractured by fan loyalties.
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Elizabeth hopes Lucky Spencer is the father, thinking it is the only way she can salvage their relationship, and has a difficult time coming to terms with Lucky Spencer not wanting her anymore.
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Still feeling lost, Lucky Spencer accepts an undercover assignment to pose as an Irish hitman named Ronan O'Reilly, coincidentally his doppelganger.
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Lucky Spencer finds out his father was the driver, and accuses Luke of driving drunk.
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Lucky Spencer is adamant that his father is an alcoholic, but Luke refutes that Lucky Spencer wants to blame the alcohol so that he does not have to blame him.
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Elizabeth finds Lucky Spencer and tells him that he is Aiden's father, stopping Lucky Spencer from drinking.
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Lucky Spencer's life did not subside; he volunteers for an undercover drug case, and is injected with drugs under the orders of Anthony Zacchara.
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Lucky Spencer spends a night hallucinating, and although Elizabeth finds him and eventually gets him medication, she meanwhile gets in a car accident that puts Lucky's wife Siobhan in the hospital.
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Lucky Spencer denies Elizabeth's attempts to reconcile and leaves town in December 2011.
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Jackson stated leaving his children during Christmas was one piece of unfinished business Lucky Spencer had, as well as not having gone on any adventures with his family.
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The introduction of Lucky Spencer, paired with Luke and Laura's reintroduction, was met with some cynicism; Georgia Dullea of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did not approve of the show's decision to let go of other popular characters in order to introduce the family.
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Jackson's portrayal of Lucky Spencer was welcomed and received praise from critics.
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Lucky Spencer was Luke and Laura's son, Lucas Lorenzo Spencer, Jr.
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Lucky Spencer had to be up to speed in scenes with Genie Francis and Anthony Geary.
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Lucky Spencer was sensitive like Laura, too, not just a smart ass kid.
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Lucky Spencer was nominated for Young Artist Awards in 1996,1997 and 1999.
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Lucky Spencer won The Hollywood Reporter's YoungStar Award in 1995,1997,1998 and 1999, and was nominated in 2000.
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Lucky Spencer again won Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Younger Actor in 1998 and 1999, making him the record holder for the Younger Actor category, both with three wins and with six nominations.
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The role of Lucky Spencer is so much Jonathan Jackson's because viewers watched him grow up and it will be very difficult for any actor to not only fill his acting shoes, but to win over viewer's hearts.
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Lucky Spencer was chosen by ABC Daytime and SOAPnet to participate in their 2008 Hot Guys Calendar, featuring popular male costars from ABC soap operas.
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The scenes in early 2010 where Lucky Spencer confronts Elizabeth and Nikolas about their affair received praise.
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Lucky Spencer's piercing bloodshot eyes shoot daggers far more deadly than Sonny's guns, and his smile encapsulates all that was celebrated about Luke and Laura's connection.
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In 2012, Jackson won his fifth Daytime Emmy Award for his scenes where Lucky Spencer tells Luke that Luke was the driver that hit Jake and confronts him about his drinking.