General Hospital Comings and Goings: Two Old Faves Return

By Janet Di Lauro Sep 25, 2016 10:55 a.m. ET

General Hospital coming and going

Who’s coming and who’s going from General Hospital? Here’s the latest casting news from the ABC soap.

The Week of September 26, 2016
Two major leading ladies are back, after taking summer breaks. Finola Hughes returns as Anna on September 28. She’ll share scenes with Vinessa Antoine (Jordan).

Meanwhile, Genie Francis returns to Port Charles, this week, too. Look for Laura to resurface on September 29.

Robin Riker is out as Hayden’s mother, Naomi. Her character made her final appearance, last week, when she was carted off to prison after taking the fall for her daughter’s diamond theft.

A week after news broke that Bryan Craig is exiting the soap as Morgan, the show has sent out a casting call for a 20 to 25-year-old Caucasian male, described as intense, brooding and complicated. This role, which sounds a lot like Morgan, is scheduled to begin taping in October.

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Janet Di Lauro

Sep 25, 2016 10:55 a.m. ET 3,637 articles

Janet Di Lauro is a contributing editor at Soap Opera Digest and a writer at Cynopsis.com and Soap Hub.com.
She has been writing about daytime and primetime television for over 30 years.
Prior to her current gigs, Janet ran ThoughtCo.com’s Days of our Lives website. She has built a career in daytime television coverage that has spanned over 30 years and includes a stint as the West Coast editor of Soap Opera Weekly magazine from the publication’s debut in 1989 through 2010. In addition, she was the features editor of Daytime TV magazine and editor of Soap Opera Stars magazine during her publishing years working in New York.
Based in California, Janet has interviewed daytime’s biggest stars, past and present, from Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso (Bo and Hope, Days of Our Lives”) to Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children) to Maurice Benard (Sonny, General Hospital) to Peter Bergman (Jack, The Young and the Restless). In addition to her daytime work, she served as a contributing editor on the tween publication Pixie and was a feature editor on Reality Check magazine.