Erika Slezak
Erika Slezak was born in Hollywood, California, United States on August 5th, 1946 and is the Soap Opera Actress. At the age of 77, Erika Slezak biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Erika Alma Herman (born August 5, 1946) is an American actress best known for her role as Victoria "Viki" Lord on the American daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1971 to the end in 2013 and then again in the online revival in 2013.
She is one of the longest-serving serial actors in American media.
She received six Daytime Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Viki, the most well-known daytime drama actress.
Personal life
Michael (born 1980) and Amanda (born 1981) are married to Brian Davies. Slezak is the mother of two children. Amanda appeared as a teenager Victoria in flashback scenes from One Life to Live in 2003.
Life and career
Slezak was born in Hollywood, California, of Czech, Austrian, German-Jewish, and Dutch descent, the granddaughter of opera tenor Leo Slezak. Alma Mahler-Werfel was her godmother. She was born two months after her grandfather died. Slezak, a youth in Greenwich, Connecticut, attended high school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Eden Hall in Torresdale, Pennsylvania. She was one of the youngest people to be accepted into London's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 17, graduating in 1966. She appeared in Milwaukee, Chicago, and Houston, establishing a strong name in theater.
Slezak auditioned for the role of nurse Mary Kennecott on ABC soap opera All My Children in 1971. She was not on the show, but the network offered Victoria "Viki" Lord Riley on One Life to Live, but not OLTL). Slezak has won six Daytime Emmy Awards in her 42 years as an Emmy Award for a female performer.
Dena Higley, the OLTL's then-head writer, was chastised by Slezak in 2007. "Dena does not care about the show's rich past," she wrote in a newsletter published in March 2007 by Slezak's fan club newsletter, "Dena does not care about the show's rich past, as shown by her writing" and that Higley "wants to write stories that she finds interesting but no one else does." Ron Carlivati was later made co-head writer, with Higley eventually ending the story in September 2007.
OLTL will be decommissioned, ABC announced in April 2011, with the final airdate in January 2012. However, media firm Prospect Park acquired the creative rights to ABC's show in July 2011 and announced that the series would be moved to an online version. Slezak, as well as other regular cast members, confirmed she would be participating in the new version of the festival in September 2011. In November 2011, the Prospect Park project stalled, and OLTL halted operations on ABC as scheduled. Prospect Park revealed in early 2013 that it was moving forward with its online versions of One Life to Live and All My Children, with Slezak confirmed on board. On April 29, 2013, the revived series, which was taped in Stamford, Connecticut, premiered on Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes and ran through August 19, 2013.
In the 1996 television film version of Danielle Steel's novel Full Circle, Slezak portrayed Jean Roberts.
In the episode "Haunted" in April 2018, Slezak appeared on Fox's The Resident as Dr. Eileen Jacoby. She appeared alongside Jeff Daniels in the drama film Guest Artist, based on the actor's 2006 play of the same name. She appeared in the CBS police drama Blue Bloods later this year.
In 2019, Slezak was interviewed for an episode of ABC news show 20/20 that centered on actress Rebecca Schaeffer's assassination. Schaeffer appeared on One Life to Live in the mid-1980s.