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List of All My Children cast members

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ6560988
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This is a list of actors and actresses who have had roles on the soap opera All My Children. It aired from January 1970 to September 2011 and was revived for five months in 2013.

The longest serving cast member is Susan Lucci, who played the heroine Erica Kane from January 1970 to the original finale in September 2011.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 2011, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, Children and cast is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from List of All My Children cast members” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.