Carly Corinthos (original) (raw)

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Carly Corinthos is a fictional character from General Hospital, a soap opera on the ABC network, portrayed by Laura Wright from 2005. A collaborative effort between the writers, Carly – originally played by Sarah Joy Brown from 1996 to 2001 — was introduced under executive producer Wendy Riche. A "love to hate" character who brings excitement to storylines because of her devious ways, Carly is the illegitimate daughter of former bad girl turned heroine, Bobbie Spencer (Jacklyn Zeman). Carly seduces her mother's husband for revenge. Throughout the 2000s, Carly, then Tamara Braun from 2001 to 2005, goes on to become one of the show's most prominent, vital and popular characters largely due to her supercouple pairing with mobster Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and her friendship with Jason Morgan (Steve Burton). Carly's revenge on Bobbie and her near lethal vendetta against A. J. Quartermaine (Sean Kanan) — the biological father of her son Michael (Chad Duell) – remains two of the most revered and controversial plots in the show's history. While Brown's portrayal of Carly is viewed as a "duplicitous vixen," Braun's Carly is viewed as more of a romantic heroine. With Laura Wright in the role, Carly goes from being a pampered wife to being powerful business woman while embodying the qualities of her predecessors. Sarah Brown earned three Daytime Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Carly—two in the Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series category and one in Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category. Braun earned an Emmy nomination Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2004. The role of Carly would bring Laura Wright her first Emmy nomination overall – in the Outstanding Lead Actress and her first win, 20 years after breaking into daytime television on ABC's Loving. (en)

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Carly Alcazar (en)
Carly Jacks (en)
Carly Quartermaine (en)
Carly Roberts (en)
Carly Spencer (en)
Caroline Leigh Benson (en)
Caroline Leigh Corinthos (en)
Caroline Leigh Spencer (en)

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Present; regular

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(en)
Carly Alcazar (en)
Carly Jacks (en)
Carly Quartermaine (en)
Carly Roberts (en)
Carly Spencer (en)
Caroline Leigh Benson (en)
Caroline Leigh Corinthos (en)
Caroline Leigh Spencer (en)

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left (en)
right (en)

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(en)
Luke Spencer (en)
Pat Spencer (en)

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#FDF5E6 (en)

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The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli (en)

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Laura Wright as Carly Corinthos (en)
Sarah Joy Brown as Carly Corinthos (en)
Tamara Braun as Carly Corinthos (en)

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(en)
Ethan Lovett (en)
Lucky Spencer (en)
Valerie Spencer (en)
Lulu Spencer (en)

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Karen Harris and Robert Guza, Jr. (en)

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Donna Corinthos (en)
Josslyn Jacks (en)

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dbr:List_of_General_Hospital_characters

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1996-04-05 (xsd:date)

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88.0

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(en)
B. J. Jones (en)
Nelle Benson (en)

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(en)
A. J. Quartermaine (en)
Jason Morgan (en)
Sonny Corinthos (en)
Jasper Jacks (en)
Lorenzo Alcazar (en)

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Laura Wright as Carly Corinthos.png (en)
Sarah Joy Brown as Carly Corinthos .png (en)
Tamara Braun as Carly Corinthos .png (en)

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Wendy Riche (en)

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Carly Corinthos (en)

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Jonah Corinthos (en)

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Hotelier (en)
Physical therapist (en)
Businesswoman (en)
Mob boss (en)

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(en)
Laura Wright (en)
Tamara Braun (en)
Eden McCoy (en)
Jennifer Bransford (en)
Sarah Joy Brown (en)
Shayne Lamas (en)

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"Carly was coming to Port Charles for the purpose of haunting Bobbie and making her life miserable, out of supposed anger at having been 'abandoned' by her. But of course, she wasn't abandoned, she was given up for adoption, and the network and producers were rightly concerned that we might be 'sending the message' either that adopted children were hateful and full of rage, or that their adoptive parents were neglectful or otherwise inadequate enough to instill this smoldering resentment of being adopted in their kids... I need not go on." (en)
"I really didn't know about the uproar, which was good. But I was informed about it before I started working. I thought to myself, 'Holy guacamole ... I'm going into something here. But all I can do is the best that I can.' I think on some level, a lot of people were waiting for me to fail." (en)

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right (en)

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General Hospital (en)

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(en)
Michael Corinthos (en)
Morgan Corinthos (en)

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Braun on being a high profile recast . (en)
Patrick Mulcahey on Carly . (en)

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(en)
Avery Corinthos (en)
Kristina Davis (en)
Lila McCall (en)

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(en)
Tony Jones (en)
Stefan Cassadine (en)

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General Hospital related articles (en)

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25.0

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1996 (xsd:integer)

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Carly Corinthos is a fictional character from General Hospital, a soap opera on the ABC network, portrayed by Laura Wright from 2005. A collaborative effort between the writers, Carly – originally played by Sarah Joy Brown from 1996 to 2001 — was introduced under executive producer Wendy Riche. A "love to hate" character who brings excitement to storylines because of her devious ways, Carly is the illegitimate daughter of former bad girl turned heroine, Bobbie Spencer (Jacklyn Zeman). (en)

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