General Hospital’s Lane Davies is no daytime newcomer, having been paired up with Nancy Lee Grahn on the show previously. Now that he’s returned, albeit as a different character, he couldn’t help but notice the strange turns that life sometimes takes.
Davies Knew Mansi’s Mom Long Ago
This current GH storyline in which Lane Davies, who plays Fergus, shares screen time with Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis) isn’t the first time the two were paired up on the soap. From 2002 to 2004, he played Dr. Cameron Lewis, who had a fling with Alexis. Prior to that, Davies and Grahn dated briefly in real life when they appeared on Santa Barbara playing Mason Capwell and Julia Wainwright, respectively, in the 80’s. It turns out that Davies also has a surprising association with soap star Kate Mansi, who plays Alexis’ daughter, Kristina.
According to Soap Opera Digest’s May 29 interview with Davies, he explained that his own life was like a soap opera since he knew Mansi when she was a baby due to the fact that he and her mother had been intimate before she was born. “[My history with her] goes back more than 40 years, because I go back with her mom to almost 50 years now,” he stated. “We met in Providence [RI]; she was working in the box office and was a ballerina in Providence when I was a young buck in the acting company [at Trinity Square Repertory Company] with people like Richard Jenkins and Bruce McGill and Dan Von Vargen,” he stated, adding, “It was a really good regional company, and that’s where Kate’s mother and I met. We were an item for several years, and we came out to Los Angeles together.”
Unfazed by Life’s Coincidences
The couple’s romance didn’t last, but they remained friends and sometimes even co-workers. Davies remarked, “We were working together on a theater company in Ventura, CA, so I was around Kate and her sister when they were very little. But I went 30-something years without laying eyes on her.”
When Grahn ran her ALS fundraiser on May 4, Davies attended and had the good fortune to reconnect with Mansi. “I hadn’t seen her, literally, since she was in diapers,” he incredulously remarked. He also enjoyed the irony in the fact that Mansi and Grahn’s own daughter share the same first name of Kate. Realizing the coincidence, he shared an old adage: “There’s an old saying that there are only nine people in theater, and we all know each other. And the longer I stay in the business, the more overlap I see. You start to wonder if you’re in the Twilight Zone or not!”
Reflecting on the twists and turns of his life, and how the universe separated him from a young Mansi, then brought them back together on GH, he jokingly quipped, “There’s another little soap opera!”
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