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General Hospital Comings and Goings: Fill-in and a Comeback

A fill-in replaces a star and there’s a comeback on GH.

By Janet Di Lauro
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What are the latest casting moves at General Hospital? Find out if any new actors or actresses are boarding the show in contract, recurring, or day-player roles, if any popular vets from yesteryear are returning, or if any of your favorite performers are leaving the ABC soap.

The Week of  August 26, 2024

Daytime vet Lindsay Hartley (ex-Theresa, Passions; ex-Arianna, Days of Our Lives; ex-Cara, All My Children) was back as Sam McCall last week, subbing for Kelly Monaco. “Grateful to be stepping in again,” shared the actress on Instagram. Hartley made her initial appearance as Sam in 2020. Word is she’s back for a quick stint. 

After a long absence, Parry Shen is back as Brad Cooper. The hospital’s ousted lab manager made a pitch for a new job as a lab technician. He last aired in March 2023.

That was Debbie Matenopoulos, former co-host of The View and Home & Family, playing a Home & Heart producer. She interacted with the Deception team.

In addition, Amor Owens has been playing FBI Agent Boyle. Meanwhile, as Lulu’s taken a turn for the worse, Ansuya Nathan portrays Dr. Kitsen, and Lincoln Hoppe appears as Dr. Conlon. 
Janet Di Lauro
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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.

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