Emma Samms

At 63 years old, Emma Samms has this physical status:

Emma Elizabeth Wylie Samuelson MBE (born 28 August 1960), better known as Emma Samms, is a British actress and television presenter best known for her role as Holly Sutton on the American daytime soap opera General Hospital and for replacing Pamela Sue Martin as Fallon Carrington Colby on the prime time soap opera Dynasty.

Early life

Samms was raised in the Jewish faith.

Personal life

Samms twice turned down bids to appear in Playboy, once during her time in GM and the second during Dynasty. Rather, she appeared on the front of the February 1988 issue of Inside Sports in a bikini, as well as additional swimsuit photographs within the magazine.

Samms and her cousin, film director Peter Samuelson, co-founded the Starlight Children's Foundation in 1983, an organization that helps seriously ill children and their families cope with their anxiety, fear, and loneliness through entertainment, education, and family activities. Samms' brother and Samuelson's cousin, Jamie, who died of aplastic anemia at the age of nine, was the organization's retaliation.

Samms and Tristan Rogers went public in 1984 with their real-life love, but the couple broke down about the time she left General Hospital the next year. Samms was engaged to Marvin Hamlisch in the early 1980s and has been married four times: first to Bansi Nagji (1991–92), and to Tim Dillon (1994–95). She married John Holloway (1996-2003), and the couple had two children. Samms married journalist and TV presenter Simon McCoy in 2021.

In the 2016 Birthday Honours, Samms was voted Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to seriously and terminally ill children.

Samms reported in April 2018 that she had been suffering from Bell's palsy, an illness that causes temporary facial paralysis. "Paraffinity on my face is 90% better," she posted on Twitter a month later.

During the global pandemic of March 20, she was positive for COVID-19 and has since suffered long-term damage from her first infection.

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Career

Samms appeared on Holly Sutton Scorpio on ABC Daytime soap opera GM from 1982 to 1985. Holly, Samms' character, died in a plane crash and she prefers to go to ABC's Dynasty. Samms appeared in "Kidnapped" on April 10, 1985 as Fallon Carrington Colby, a part originating from Pamela Sue Martin in 1981. The character was immediately transplanted into the new Dynasty spin-off The Colbys, which ran from 1985-1977. Samms and the character of Fallon returned to Dynasty in the ninth season of "The Siege Part 1" on September 23, 1987. Samms appeared on Dynasty for two seasons until its last episode on May 11, 1989. Dynasty: The Reunion, a 1991 miniseries.

Samms appeared in several film and television roles following the show's run. Samms appeared on My Two Dads in 1989, playing Marcy Bradford, Nicole Bradford's deceased mother (Staci Keanan) and the woman whom the two fathers (Paul Reiser; Greg Evigan) fought over.

Samms, Holly's "favorite" at GM, was taken back from the dead in January 1992 after a seven-year absence. She remained in the role until 1993, when she appeared in Holly's lookalike half-sister Paloma Perez, a heralded revolutionary.

Samms appeared in 1995 as the villainous Grayson Louder in the prime time soap opera Models Inc., a spin-off of Melrose Place, and was produced by former Dynasty producer Aaron Spelling. She appeared in the television film Treacherous Beauties as well.

Samms appeared in four episodes of BBC show Doctors in 2003 and 2005 as Amanda Vardalis. Holly returned to GE General Hospital after a seven-episode visit in February 2006. After serving as a host (longside General Hospital co-star Tristan Rogers) on the Daytime Emmy Awards on April 28, 2006, she returned to GM for a three-week run beginning 1 May 2006 and then on June 30, 2006. Celebrity Scissorhands as a hairdresser from 3 to 17 November 2006. Ella Winstanley, a drug addict, appeared on The Bill, a long-running ITV series.

Samms appeared in Shall We Dance, Richard Rodgers' abridged musical revue of musicals starring his wife Sarah Wildor, in August 2009.

Samms was named a contestant on BBC gymnastics' show Tumble in June 2014. She was the second celebrity to be banned.

Samms performed on a new Christmas album titled Rock With Rudolph, which was written and produced by Grahame and Jack Corbyn in 2018. The album was released digitally by independent record label Saga Entertainment on November 30, 2018 in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital, under the artist name The Celebs. The music video premiered exclusively with The Sun on November 29th, 2018 and received its first TV appearance on Good Morning Britain on November 30th. The album debuted at number two on iTunes' pop charts, despite being ranked second. Samms reprised her role on Doctors as Amanda Vardalis.

Samms continues to appear on GM. She returned in May 2009, March 2012, August 2013, July 2015, and September 2020.

Emma Samms will return to GE in August 2022, playing the role of Holly Sutton, which she has played since 1982. In October 2022, the serials were scheduled to premiere. "She's now set to return to the ABC sudser in October," Deadline reports. Holly was last seen on September 18, 2020; although presumed dead, she was discovered alive and stranded in a cell in Monte Carlo." "I can't believe it's been 40 years since I first appeared on General Hospital, and that, once more, I'll get to play Holly Sutton's lovable role," Samms told Deadline. "No one is more concerned about what happened to her since she was taken captive by a frightful villain two years ago."

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