Susan Victoria Lucci was born on December 23,1946 and is an American actress, television host, author and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama All My Children during that show's entire network run from 1970 to 2011.
32 Facts About Susan Lucci
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The character 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.
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Susan Lucci 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.
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Susan Lucci has acted in other TV series, as well as occasionally in film and on stage.
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Susan Lucci had multi-episode guest appearances on the series Dallas, Hot in Cleveland and Army Wives.
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Susan Lucci was named one of VH1's 200 Top Icons of All Time and one of Barbara Walters's Ten Most Fascinating People.
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Susan Lucci was born in Scarsdale, New York, to parents Jeanette and Victor Lucci.
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Susan Lucci's father was of Italian ancestry, and her mother was of Swedish descent.
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Susan Lucci lived in Yonkers, New York, before moving with her family at age 2 to Elmont, New York, and then at age 5 to another Long Island town, Garden City, New York.
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Susan Lucci graduated from Garden City High School in 1964 and from Marymount College, Tarrytown in 1968, with a BA degree in drama.
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Susan Lucci is best known for appearing as Erica Kane on the ABC soap opera All My Children, from January 16,1970, to September 23,2011.
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Susan Lucci was nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy for her work on All My Children almost every year beginning in 1978.
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When Susan Lucci did not win the award after several consecutive nominations, her image in the media began to be lampooned, as she became notoriously synonymous with never winning an Emmy.
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Susan Lucci has appeared in a number of television series and television movies.
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In 1995, Susan Lucci appeared in the Lifetime television film Ebbie.
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Susan Lucci played a Scrooge-like department store owner visited by Marley and the three ghosts on Christmas.
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Susan Lucci made several appearances as herself, the arch rival of Wendie Malick's character, Victoria Chase, on the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland, including the February 1,2012 episode entitled "Life with Susan Lucci".
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Susan Lucci appeared in Gloria Estefan's music video "Hotel Nacional" in February 2012.
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Susan Lucci guest starred in multi-episodes of the sixth season of Lifetime drama series Army Wives.
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Susan Lucci hosted and narrated Deadly Affairs, a prime-time series airing on Investigation Discovery as of 2012.
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On November 15,2012 Susan Lucci appeared on The Colbert Report in a segment reflecting the soap-opera-like nature of the Petraeus scandal.
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Susan Lucci had a starring role as Genevieve Delatour in the Lifetime comedy-drama series Devious Maids created by Marc Cherry.
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In 2017, Susan Lucci played one of Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard's grandparents in Sia's music video, "Santa's Coming for Us".
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Susan Lucci appeared in television ads for Progressive Insurance that were styled as a soap opera.
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Susan Lucci competed in Season 7 of Dancing with the Stars with dance partner Tony Dovolani.
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Susan Lucci said that Dancing had asked her to appear before, but she had turned it down, in part, because of the travel it would have required of her.
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Susan Lucci later changed her mind, in part, because of the experience of fellow All My Children star Cameron Mathison, who finished fifth in season 5.
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Susan Lucci was voted off the show on November 5,2008 rather than November 4 due to election night, finishing sixth in the competition.
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Susan Lucci married Austrian-born chef and food-service manager Helmut Huber on September 13,1969.
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Susan Lucci is a registered Republican and has hosted fundraising events for Rudy Giuliani.
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Susan Lucci is a supporter of LGBT rights and equality, her support spurred by an All My Children storyline in 2000 in which her character Erica's daughter, Bianca Montgomery, came out as a lesbian.
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Susan Lucci postponed making her experience public until shortly before the American Heart Association's annual Go Red for Women fashion event in February 2019.