1. Tad Martin is a fictional character from the American daytime drama, All My Children.
81 Facts About Tad Martin
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Tad Martin is perhaps the best male friend to Erica Kane.
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Tad Martin won the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Younger Actor twice in 1986 and 1987, and won the Supporting Actor trophy in 2001.
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Tad Martin is one of the very few actors to be nominated in younger, supporting, and lead actor categories, all while portraying the same character.
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Thaddeus James "Tad Martin" Gardner is written into All My Children November 14,1972.
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When Ray is sent to prison for the crime, Tad is formally adopted by the Martins.
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Tad Martin develops a close relationship with his adoptive grandmother.
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Tad Martin is nicknamed "Tad the Cad" because he seduces and dumps many women.
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Tad Martin is once caught in Erica Kane's bedroom with another model, which costs him his job.
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Tad Martin begins seeing Liza Colby, a rival of his biological sister, Jenny Gardner for the affections of Greg Nelson.
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Tad Martin has a simultaneous affair with Liza's mother, Marian Colby which is eventually discovered by a furious Liza.
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Tad Martin has miscarried, but hides this from him as she knows he would not marry her otherwise.
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Tad Martin agrees to marry him to make his last days happy.
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Tad Martin later finds out that Bob is lying about his condition, leading to Hillary and Bob's divorce.
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Hillary discovers con artist Wade Matthews has evil intentions toward her stepmother, Phoebe, and that Tad Martin knows but is keeping it secret under threat of blackmail.
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Between the stress of this revelation and Hillary's focus on law school, Tad Martin succumbs to the attentions of a lounge singer, who is revealed to be Adam Chandler's estranged daughter, Skye Chandler despite desperate attempts to gain Hillary's forgiveness after she finds out about Tad Martin's infidelity, she ends their marriage.
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Tad Martin quickly has an affair with Barbara Montgomery, and then meets billionaire Adam's new maid, Dixie Cooney.
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Brooke had been told she would never be able to conceive another child, but discovers she is pregnant by Tad Martin, and has a son, who she calls Jamie.
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Tad Martin initially keeps the identity of Jamie's father a secret from all but her aunt Phoebe, but eventually shares the news with Tad's loved ones.
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Meanwhile, Tad Martin drags himself from the river, with no memory of who he is, and hitchhikes to California.
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Tad Martin gets a job at Orsini Vineyards, where the owner, Nola Orsini, says that he is the spitting image of her missing son, Ted Orsini, who was kidnapped as a child, and insists Tad is him.
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Tad Martin takes him in, trains him to run the vineyards, and makes him her heir, completely convinced he is her lost son.
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Tad Martin is doing business in New York City with Dimitri Marick and is invited to Wildwind, the Marick estate in Pine Valley.
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The only exception was an incident where "Ted" rescues Junior in the park; Junior recognizes him as Tad Martin, but "Ted" leaves the scene before running into anyone else who would recognize him.
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Nola eventually puts it all together but before she can tell Tad Martin, she dies of heart failure - leaving Tad Martin her fortune.
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Tad Martin helps him to regain his memory and introduces him to Jamie.
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Brooke and Tad Martin marry, but the union is doomed from the start due to the unresolved feelings Tad Martin and Dixie share.
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Brooke eventually realizes the marriage won't work, and tells Tad Martin to go back to Dixie.
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Tad Martin falls back into his old ways and has an affair with Liza.
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Later on, after apologizing to Tad Martin for being so taken in by Dimitri's lies, Gloria leaves town to sort out her life.
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Tad Martin sits waiting for hours to see if she would show, but, while on her way to meet him, she fell ill.
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Tad Martin believes she did not come because she decided she did not want to reconcile.
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Tad Martin stays by her side, proving his undying love, and proposing marriage to her.
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Tad Martin accepts, and in 1999, Tad and Dixie marry for the third time.
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Liza marries Adam, and when they began having problems, Tad Martin conspires with her to successfully take over control of Chandler Enterprises.
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Tad Martin did eventually find out, and accepts her decision to carry the baby, but she miscarries.
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Tad Martin, knowing a cad when he sees one, becomes wary of David's constant need for Dixie's assistance.
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Tad Martin has the opportunity to meet David's lawyer, Leslie Coulson.
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Tad Martin turns out to be the little sister of one of Tad's old high school girlfriends and reveals that she always had a crush on him.
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Later, Tad Martin brings Leslie back to town to help him get even with David, but instead Leslie attacks Tad Martin and almost kills him.
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Dixie, not understanding how Tad Martin could have brought the menacing Leslie back into their lives for something as stupid as revenge, loses her trust in Tad Martin once more, and they divorce again in January 2002.
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Shortly after the divorce, Dixie and Tad Martin reunite again, and Dixie becomes pregnant.
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Tad Martin takes a long time to mourn the death of his beloved Dixie and their unborn daughter.
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In 2003, Tad Martin begins to emerge from his dark place when he enlists his investigator skills to help Brooke find out if Maria Santos Grey is still alive.
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Tad Martin really wants to see David behind bars for good.
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Tad Martin decides to start up his private investigating business again after Adam fires him from his position at Chandler Enterprises.
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Tad Martin discovers that Babe seduced his son Jamie the very night she and JR returned to Pine Valley, and begins to investigate her.
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Tad Martin is helping Liza with her Adam problems, and she is finding that her feelings for Tad Martin were returning - and he is feeling some of the same in return, so he is soon involved with both Simone and Liza.
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Tad Martin takes Babe's son, telling her Bianca's baby girl is hers and that Bianca's baby has died.
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Tad Martin is wracked with guilt and keeps putting him off.
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When Tad Martin finds out about the deception, he is angry, but decides to keep the secret.
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Tad Martin wants to tell Bianca the truth, but Krystal begs him not to.
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Tad Martin is facing accessory charges for the kidnapping of Adam Chandler III.
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Tad Martin is in for the shock of his life when Diana, the Chandlers' nanny, is revealed to be Dixie.
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Tad Martin tells Tad she did not want to come back to Pine Valley because she lost Kate and is not sure if she wants to reunite with Tad.
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Tad Martin proposes to Krystal again, but it is clear he has feelings for Di.
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Tad Martin continues to believe Di, ending his engagement with Krystal.
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Tad Martin finds Di and Julia standing over The Dragon's dead body.
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Tad Martin tries to push Di away for all the pain she has caused, but he cannot, as he has fallen in love with her.
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Tad Martin is planning to dig him up after he reveals the location of Kate.
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Tad Martin's attorney is able to discredit his testimony, and the jury acquits them both.
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Tad Martin reveals to Dixie it was his ploy to stop the investigation into Greg's murder because he had committed the crime.
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Dixie and Tad Martin finally begin to make peace, and he forgives her for all she has done.
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Tad Martin realizes how much he still loves his ex-wife, and Dixie clearly loves Tad Martin.
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Tad Martin grows close to Jim and Linda Mershon's adopted daughter, Kathy.
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Julia, who was named as Kathy's guardian, acts uncomfortable when Kathy asks Tad Martin to be her new father after her parents are killed in a car accident.
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Krystal and Tad Martin's baby is named Jenny, for Tad Martin's late sister.
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Various people from Tad Martin's past come back to Pine Valley.
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Joe Tad Martin asks Dr Angie Hubbard to consult with him on a case.
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Tad Martin wants to stay with Dixie in Heaven, but she implores him to wake up because someone in Pine Valley needs him.
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Tad Martin hears that Jamie and Jeff are reported missing in the Congo, and so he goes to investigate the situation himself.
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Tad Martin then begins working for Ryan Lavery, doing an undercover investigation of Dr Riley Sinclair.
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Tad Martin begins to regain his memories from the night of the shooting, seeing Annie Lavery, Kendall Hart and Emma Lavery in his visions of the night of Stuart's death.
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Meanwhile, Tad Martin takes in the young, troubled Damon Miller.
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Tad Martin learns that Damon is the son of Hillary Wilson, his ex-wife.
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On March 17,2010, Tad Martin receives the DNA results confirming that Damon is his son.
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Tad Martin wants to confront Hillary, but she is not in her hotel room and does not answer her phone.
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Paul Miller Damon's step-father, comes to take Damon home, but Tad Martin refuses to allow it because of how Paul has treated Damon.
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In March 2011, Tad Martin marries Cara Castillo so that she would not be deported - unaware that Dixie is actually alive.
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In May 2013, Tad Martin was revealed to be out on the field on a case.
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In September 2013, Jesse contacts Tad Martin for help regarding Russian criminal Yuri Koslov, suggesting that Tad Martin may be returning to Pine Valley in the immediate future.