Susan Victoria Lucci is an American actress, television host, author and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama All My Children during the show's entire network run from 1970 to 2011. Previously, she starred on the 60's soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing.In 1996,TV Guideranked Lucci number 37 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. She was named one ofVH1's 200 Top Icons of All Time and one ofBarbara Walters's Ten Most Fascinating People.During her run onAll My Children, she was nominated 21 times for theDaytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She won only once, in 1999, after the 19th nomination; beginning in the late 1980s her status as a perpetual nominee for the award attracted significant media attention. The character she portrayed, Erica Kane, is considered anicon,and Lucci was called "Daytime's Leading Lady" byTV Guide, withThe New York Timesand theLos Angeles Timesciting her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television.Lucci has also acted in other TV series, as well as occasionally in film and on stage. She had multi-episode guest appearances on the seriesDallas,Hot in Cleveland andArmy Wives. She hostedSaturday Night Livein 1990.After the cancellation ofAll My Children, she hosted the 2012-2014true crime series Deadly Affairsand narrated its' offshoot Deadly Affairs: Betrayed by Love. She starred asGenevieve Delatour in the 2013-2016LifetimeseriesDevious Maids.