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List of One Life to Live characters

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ6592991 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of characters that have appeared on the ABC Daytime and TOLN soap opera, One Life to Live.

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Notes

See also

One Life to Live characters (1968–79)

One Life to Live characters (1980s)

One Life to Live characters (1990s)

One Life to Live characters (2000s)

One Life to Live characters (2010s)

References

External links

"One Life to Live Character List". Soaps.com. Retrieved February 18, 2009.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with List, Life and Live providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of One Life to Live characters” 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.