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Favorite Soap Villain or Villainess

Who is your favorite soap villain or villainess, for me it would be Sheila Carter from both The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, because this is what my mom would have on tv when I was on a break from school.

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The Young and the Restles-Sheila Carter, Patty Williams and Tricia McNeil
The Bold and the Beautiful-Sheila Carter and Morgan Dewitt

As The World Turns-James Stenbeck, David Stenbeck and Eve Coleman(Henry's sister)

Guiding Light-Annie Dutton and Edmond Winslow

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Santa Barbara - Flame Beaufort and Quinn Armitage; Craig Hunt (near the end of his role)

All My Children - Janet Green (1991-92 storyline)

One Life to Live - Tonya? (can't remember her name, from the 1991-92 storyline)

Bold and the Beautiful - Sheila Carter

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Another World - Iris

Dark Shadows - Angelique

B & B / Y & R - Sheila

One Life to Live - Dorian

Guiding Light - Roger

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Secret Storm - Pauline Tyrell (Haila Stoddard)
Young Dr. Malone - Claire (Bannister) as played by Lesley Woods
Edge of Night - Sybil Gordon (Priscilla Gillette), Rick Oliver (Keith Charles)
Dark Shadows - Angelique (Lara Parker)
Another World - Aunt Liz (Audra Lindley)
Ryan's Hope - Delia (Ilene Kristen)
One Life to Live - Mitch Laurence (Roscoe Born)

special mention must be made of Claudia Morgan, a great radio actress who was the heroine of The Right to Happiness for many years with John Larkin as two different love interests ... she did an Edge of Night stint in 1958 as a conniving, shrewish blackmailer

why don't soaps have great villains and villainesses any more? All you Another World fans, don't you occasionally miss the first Rachel, a soap witch if there ever was one! At least you can still see her as Dorian on One Life to Live. LMAO

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YES, Robin Strasser rocked as Rachel and would have done so for many more years had she not wanted to move to Hollywood in real life in the early 1970s. Funny, though, after she divorced Laurence Luckinbill, she moved BACK to New York to play Dr. Christina Karras Martin on ALL MY CHILDREN before jumping over to ONE LIFE TO LIVE to take over the role of Dorian from Claire Malis. So not only is she my favorite Rachel, she's my favorite Dorian as well. I was too small (or not born yet) to enjoy the first 3 villains you mentioned, but I DO recall Audra Lindley (Mrs. Roper) as the 2nd Liz Matthews, wailing, crying, and nagging everyone around her. Delia was a nervous basket case on RYAN's HOPE, Ilene was the best in that role. Mitch Laurence ticked me off so many times on so many occasions, I wanted to murder him myself !!

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AMC....Billy Clyde Tuggle & Janet Green

Another World..... Carl Hutchins( before they tamed him)

OLTL....Todd Manning

Y&R.....Victor Newman

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Carl Hutchins! Totally forgot about him and great villan!

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I'm from the Uk so you may not have heard of these soaps but;

EastEnders - Archie Mitchell, Steve Owen, Lucas Johnson, Janine Butcher, Dan Sullivan and maybe more.

Coronation St. - Tony Gordon, Richard Hillman, Joe Carter

Emmerdale - Ray Mullan, Sally Spode, Steph Stokes.

All I can think of for now. :)

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I know of EastEnders. I'm in the US, but it did air here on public broadcasting (I think that was the channel - been a long time now) in the early 1990s in North Carolina. I think the episodes that aired at the time were from the 1980s - I liked what I saw, but I don't even know if it airs anywhere in the US now.

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I think I can totally agree

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Janine Butcher, nasty Nick, and Dirty Den from eastenders are my favourites.

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Stefano DiMera

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Stefano is my favorite villain too. I loved listening to him talk...what a voice!

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Stefano DiMera, with Vivian Alamaine as a distant second. I would love to add Victor, but he flip-flops too much for my liking, depending on whether he wants to be in someone's good graces or not. Still love it when he and Stefano are directly bumping heads.

The only other soap I watch besides Days is B&B, but I really don't have a favorite villain there. I guess if you twisted my arm I'd say Amber Moore, but I always liked Amber, and other not liking you doesn't really make me view you as a villain. If that were the case I'd just say Hope because I truly truly despise her and everythign about her.


"I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave!"

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It's almost impossible to come up with a list because there are so many to choose from so I'll just pick my personal favorites and I'll stick to daytime serials and not night time like Dallas & Dynasty...


1. Alan Spaulding as played by Chris Bernau, Guiding Light
2. Roger Thorpe as played by Michael Zaslow, Guiding Light
3. James Stenbeck as played by Anthony Herrera, As the World Turns
4. Peter Blake as played by Jason Brooks, Days of Our Lives
5. Paul Mendez as played by Eddie Velez, Days of Our Lives
6. Victor Kiriakis as played by John Aniston, Days of Our Lives

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Days of Our Lives - Kristen, Andre and Stefano DiMera, Vivian. Lawrence Alamain. Princess Gina. Lexie during her "true DiMera" phase. Renee DiMera. The Hathaways (Max and Megan)

Young & The Restless - Sheila, and Brad Carlton (or whoever)'s ex-wife wife who diguised herself as Nikki's maid, then shot her. Also Patty (the most recent Patty). Jill when the other actress played her in the early 80s. Lauren before they tamed her. Marge (Katherine's chanceler's lookalike).

Loving - Jonathan (the "devil" guy who threatened and tormented Lorna), Lorna, Gwenyth

Santa Barbara - that psychic lady who got obsessed with Cruz, also that guy (Eden's or Kelly's husband), who had plastic surgery to look like him & take over his life.

All My Children - Janet from another planet

As The World Turns - Barbara, James Stenbeck

Another World - Cecile, Carl Hutchins (before they tamed him), Justine.

Search For Tomorrow - Warren.

Dynasty - Alexis, Kystal's evil double, Rita.

Knot's Landing - Jill, Abby.

Falcon Crest - forgot the characters name, but the main lady played by Jane Wyman.

Melrose Place - Amanda

Dark Shadows - Barnabus


I love Sasha Vujacic !!

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Ooohhhhh!!! also, All My Children: Jane - the lady who had plastic surgery to look like Erica and steal her life. ;)

And Another World: Emily, who was programmed to kill David during that whole murder mystery of "The Mystery of the woman who wore the blue diamond ring who killed David" (and killed others, I believe).

Another World: Felicia Gallant and Cass Winthrop - before they tamed them. Alma Rutter.

I love Sasha Vujacic !!

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Gloria Fischer Bardwell on Young & The Restless

I love Sasha Vujacic !!

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Dallas - J.R Ewing

Falcon Crest - Angela Channing, Richard Channing













Julius Caesar: Infamy, infamy. They've all got it in for me.

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Janine Butcher and Trevor Morgan from Eastenders.

Richard Hillman and Tony Gordon from Coronation Street.

Current favourite has got to be Silas Blisset from Hollyoaks!

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Mitch Lawrence (Roscoe Born) from OLTL.

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Although OLTL is gone, the character of Todd Manning has come to GH and remains a favorite bad guy with a sense of whimsical humor. He began as the leader of a college rape and the writers planned him as a short term baddy, but the worse he got the audience loved him, even after he tried to rape his victim again as well as kill his blind lawyer. Don't grin. He turned out to be heroine Viki's half brother and partial heir to the Lord fortune. Dorian's niece Blair went after him for his money. Long story, but he's done so many rotten things and yet tries to make things right (making them worse) most fan root for him. Actor Roger Howarth left the role for 8 years and his replacement, although an excellent actor, never really convinced fans he was Todd. OLTL watchers were overjoyed when he returned to the role last May and it was revealed the phony Todd was actually Victor, Todd's brother. Many GH viewers were unhappy that OLTL cast came to their show, but now Roger has been throughly assimilated as a GH favorite ... and he's still doing great bad things to help other people. Roger Howarth has a sense of delivery which few TV actors match and always brings out the best in whichever actor or actress he's playing against. Currently he's involved with Heather Webber and a baby switch but driven by guilt and wanting to make things right he keeps us watching daily to see what he'll do. Roger is great!

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I wouldnt call Todd Manning a villain though, more like an anti-hero(emphasis on the anti)

He has shown too many redemptitive layers to be considered an all out villain (allthough he was a full blown villain in the begining)

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Grantch,

I forgot (silly me) to include Keith Whitney/Jonah Lockwood and Stephanie Martin, both on THE EDGE OF NIGHT, late 60s, early 70s.

What did you think of them ? And Henry Slesar's writing of their shenanigans ?

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You omitted my favorite EoN baddy who aroused desire in teenagers and married women alike, Rick Oliver. Everyone thought he was the best thing that ever happened in Monticello, only Martha Marceau saw through him and when Laura Hillier murdered him, Martha was arrested. It was always rough to be related to Police Chief Bill Marceau. His daughter Judy was framed for murder by lascivious Teresa Vetter (who'd poisoned her husband so she and her lover could take over the numbers racket and when her many crimes seemed to catch up with her started to seduce the D.A. - you can catch a glimpse of her with the D.A. in "Driving Miss Daisy") Judy was saved from the Vetter frame) by Lt. Ed Gibson (a pre-Dallas Larry Hagman) then went nuts and tried to kidnap the Capices' daughter; Chief Marceau's second wife Martha was framed TWICE for murder (Rick Oliver and a few years later Taffy Simms) as well as being thought a goofball because she believed her new house to be haunted. Oh, how I miss that glorious serial. Great narrative, intriguing mysteries. Both Irving Vendig who created the show and Henry Slesar who wrote it for many years were soap opera geniuses!

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Agreed! Sheila Carter from B&B/Y&R any day, although my runner-up would be Joan Ferguson from Prisoner: Cell Block H.

"He came to life...good for him"

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Alan Spaulding, Roger Thorpe & Alexandra Spaulding (The Originals: Christopher Bernau, Michael Zaslow & Beverlee McKinsey) on GUIDING LIGHT!

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Eastenders - Steve Owen
Coronation Street - Linda Sykes
Sunset Beach - Gregory Richards, Annie Douglas

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We must also give a HUGE Shout-Out to the wonderful LARRY BRYGGMAN, who played the sleazy Dr. John Dixon...the conniving ex-husband of the beautiful Kim, played by Kathryn Hays.







I do hope he won't upset Henry...

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Jilly Stewart (played by Peta Toppano) in Return to Eden...

Wendy Hughes coolly played her in the mini series, and she was very good as the "bimbo-chic" best friend and femme fatale.

Toppano in the series ramped it up to number 11 by playing Jilly as a vile, neurotic, hell cat... A scheming witch and tramp!

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Newman from Seinfeld (1989–1998)

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OLTL - Allison Perkins

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Gina Capwell (Santa Barbara)
Melissa Agretti (Falcon Crest)
Annie (Sunset Beach)
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