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Lani Price is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, played by Sal Stowers. On September 25, 2015, Lani was introduced by co-head writers Josh Griffith and Dena Higley as a rookie police officer, who is revealed to be the daughter of long-running character, Mayor Abe Carver (James Reynolds). While Lani is quickly promoted to detective, the character struggles to find a place on the canvas and is abruptly written out on June 9, 2016, after Stowers was released from her contract. Lani was reintroduced on December 19, 2016, and Stowers became a series regular again a year later. Lani's first major romance with JJ Deveraux (Casey Moss) starts with controversy as it breaks up his relationship with Gabi Hernandez (Camila Banus). Lani and JJ become partners at the police department where she clashes with Gabi's new boyfriend, FBI agent Eli Grant (Lamon Archey). When the fiercely independent Lani is forced to lean on Eli during an investigation they grow closer as Lani doubts her future with JJ. When JJ dumps Lani after he shoots her brother Theo Carver (Cameron Johnson), Lani and Eli sleep together after she finds JJ with Gabi. While the affair results in the stillbirth of their son, and Eli and Lani ultimately fall in love, in spite of their grief. The romance is plagued by Gabi's vendetta against Lani after she accidentally kills Stefan DiMera, Gabi's husband, in the line of the duty. With their 2020 wedding, Eli and Lani are the first African-American couple to marry onscreen in the show's history. In 2021, head writer Ron Carlivati revisited Lani's backstory with the introduction of her wealthy aunt Paulina Price played by sitcom legend Jackée Harry and Paulina's wayward daughter Chanel Dupree (Raven Bowens). Lani struggles to forgive Paulina when she takes advantage of Abe's trust. With the arrival of matriarch Olivia Price, played by Harry's 227 co-star Marla Gibbs, it is revealed that Paulina's is Lani's biological mother. (en)

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Lani Grant (en)

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Former; regular

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Lani Grant (en)

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Karen Carver (en)
Tamara Price (en)

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Michael Maloney (en)
Tony S. (en)
Sal Stowers (en)

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#FDF5E6 (en)

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Josh Griffith and Dena Higley (en)

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2015-09-25 (xsd:date)

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Lani was introduced as the daughter of Abe Carver and Tamara Price, played by veteran soap actor James Reynolds and singer/actress Marilyn McCoo . (en)

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Benjamin Carver (en)

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Rita Carver (en)
Olivia Price (en)

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Brandon Walker (en)
Theo Carver (en)

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James Reynolds.jpeg (en)
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Sal Stowers as Lani Price.png (en)

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Albert Alarr, Ken Corday and Greg Meng (en)

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2022-07-01 (xsd:date)

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Lani Price (en)

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Police officer (en)
Police detective (en)

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The scenes were beautiful, realistically performed and staged as DAYS showed the ripple-effect impact of the tragedy on many Salem players. It made for difficult but emotionally rewarding viewing. (en)
Sal Stowers gut-punched me with her performance as Lani stood at the altar and calculated that if Paulina was her mother, Abe wasn't her father. Oof. That moment is going to haunt me for a while. It absolutely depicted Lani's shattering loss. Bravo, Sal! (en)
I was brought onto the show to play his [Abe's] daughter. That was the whole reason my character was brought to Salem. (en)
In Gabi's eyes, Lani has destroyed Gabi's life. In the beginning, Eli and Gabi were dating, so she feels that Lani took Eli away from her, she feels that Lani took JJ away from her, and now it's Stefan. I feel she has a lot of anger and hatred toward Lani. And now with shooting Stefan, everything just caught on fire. (en)
Soaps are famous for creating long-lost children and sometimes they come out of nowhere. But DAYS went into the history books in order to tie Lani to one of Abe’s former loves, Tamara Price, played by singer/actress Marilyn McCoo. (en)
I cried so much and it was real heartbreak. It was real, the devastation and confusion of it all. And then I found out that they were bringing in a little doll that looked so real and it was so sad because you can tell that it’s supposed to be a deceased infant, and that was even more heartbreaking. (en)

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Days of Our Lives (en)

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David Grant (en)
Carver Grant (en)

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Soap Opera Digest (en)
TV Insider (en)
Soap Central (en)
Soap Hub (en)

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Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem (en)

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The Storyteller (en)
Baby Mine (en)
Into the Salem-Verse (en)
Lani's introduction (en)
Maloney on Lani's lineage (en)
Stowers on Lani and Gabi (en)

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(en)
Jonah Carver (en)
Theo Carver (en)

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Lani Price is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, played by Sal Stowers. On September 25, 2015, Lani was introduced by co-head writers Josh Griffith and Dena Higley as a rookie police officer, who is revealed to be the daughter of long-running character, Mayor Abe Carver (James Reynolds). While Lani is quickly promoted to detective, the character struggles to find a place on the canvas and is abruptly written out on June 9, 2016, after Stowers was released from her contract. Lani was reintroduced on December 19, 2016, and Stowers became a series regular again a year later. (en)

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