Salem Stalker Marlena Craig Marlena Brady Marlena Bradford Marlena Black Samantha Evans Kristen DiMera Isabella Toscano Hattie Adams John Black Steve Johnson Rafe Hernandez
Occupation
Psychiatrist
Radio host
Therapist
Wedding officiant
Parents
Frank Evans Martha Evans
Sisters
Samantha Evans
Husband
Alex North (1970s–2006)
Don Craig (1979–1981)
Roman Brady (1983–1994)
Eugene Bradford (1984)
John Black (1986–1991, 1999–2005, 2006–2008, 2009–2012, 2013–2014, 2018–present)[e]
Children
DJ Craig Eric Brady Sami Brady Belle Black
Stepsons
Brady Black
Paul Narita
Grandchildren
Will Horton Claire Brady Allie Horton Johnny DiMera Sydney DiMera Grace Brady (legal) Holly Jonas (surrogate) Mackenzie Horton Jude Roman Brady
Uncles
Robert Evans
First cousins
Trista Evans
Other relatives
Arianna Horton Henry Horton
Marlena Evans is a fictional character on the NBC/Peacock soap
opera Days of Our Lives, a long-running serial about working life in the fictional town of Salem. She has been played by actress Deidre Hall since 1976, but the character was absent from the show from 1987 to August 1991 and again from January 2009 to September 2011. Marlena was created by scriptwriter Pat Falken Smith and executive producer Betty Corday, and has become one of Days of our Lives' most well-known characters. Hall made her debut on the soap on June 21, 1976, currently making her the second longest running actress on the serial, surpassed only by Suzanne Rogers (Maggie Horton).[1]
Throughout the course of her existence on the program, she has experienced what some consider to be the most outrageous circumstances of any character in soap opera history. These would include being possessed by the devil two times (in 1994 and 2021); a plummet from a 30-story-window (which she survived); being used as a surrogate for genetically engineered babies, Rex and Cassie, during a four-year coma, where she was presumed dead after being involved in a plane crash; being mind-controlled to believe she was a serial killer; being targeted by several serial killers; and becoming pregnant late in life and suffering a miscarriage, which caused her to have hysterical amnesia. She has also been kidnapped numerous times over the past 45 years. She is a doctor, wife, mother, twin, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Marlena has been a staple in the US press during her time on Days of Our Lives, a representative of the symbiosis between American's soaps and tabloid soap magazines. Widely read tabloids, such as Soap Opera Digest and Soap Opera Weekly, would routinely publish forthcoming developments in Marlena's storylines. Marlena was well received by critics, and is notable for her popular pairing with John Black. The character is well-known even outside of the show's viewer-base. In 2010, Sheri Anderson (a former head writer for Days) began writing books about off-screen characters from the soap. John and Marlena were included in one called A Secret in Salem.[2]
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soon after, leaving John to raise Brady on his own. John later marries MarlenaEvans, and the two raise Brady and their daughter, Belle, together. Eventually...
(1997) and Penelope Kent (1998). She also played MarlenaEvans briefly in 1995 and 2021 when Marlena, who was possessed by the Devil, morphed to look...
2003, Mickey and Maggie are attacked in their home by close friend MarlenaEvans. Mickey survives, but unfortunately, the hit from the alcohol bottle...
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that he's alive. Eli Grant shows up and arrests Xander for shooting MarlenaEvans but is released after the security footage is revealed to have been...
relationship. Her relationship with her father improves as well. He works with MarlenaEvans and a support group to recover from PTSD and so, Jack eventually manages...
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