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General Hospital's 10 Best Characters, Ranked
10. Alexis Davis
An impossibly shrewd attorney with a wit that’s sharp enough to slit a throat… or a hot mess whose Achilles’ heel is Mafia dons? Alexis is both, thank you very much, and for that reason, she’s fascinated us since she arrived in Port Charles in 1996.
9. Frisco Jones
A pop star. A policeman. A globe-trotting WSB agent. Turned out, there was nothing that GH could turn Jack Wagner’s dreamy character into that wouldn’t leave viewers wishing he’d call them the “Lady of My Heart.”
8. Anna Devane
Long before Alias and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supergirl took primetime by storm, this sometime secret agent was kicking ass every day at three in the afternoon. And the best part? She still is.
7. Bobbie Spencer
Maybe it was her past as a hooker with a heart of gold. But for decades, the bad girl-gone-good threw sparks with just about any guy who crossed her path. By now, her little black book must come in volumes!
6. Jessie Brewer
Wrongly accused of murder? Check. Dumped for her niece? Check. Had a husband come back from the dead? Check. In short, if it could happen to a soap character, it happened to GH’s original hard-luck heroine!
5. Scotty Baldwin
With a twinkle in his eye and a scheme in his head, the rascally lawyer has been stirring the pot just by walking into the room (on and off) since 1977. So does he belong on this list? Heck, yeah — case closed!
4. Sonny Corinthos
What, did you think we were gonna leave off the godfather of Port Charles? Fughedaboutit! For more than a quarter of a century, the mobster has been the pinky-ringed embodiment of an offer that we can’t refuse.
3. Steve Hardy
You could argue that GH’s stalwart chief of staff wasn’t exciting enough to rank this high. But we’d counter that you’ve forgotten how comforting a presence he was for 33 years — not to mention the thrill of his eventual courtship with true love Audrey March.
2. Luke Spencer
For nearly 40 years, whether the incorrigible anti-hero was going dark (the Campus Disco rape), going wild (saving the world from the Cassadines’ weather machine) or going for laughs (bickering with Tracy Quartermaine), there was never any question that we were going along for the ride.
1. Laura Collins
Not only did the onetime Ms. Star Eyes’ mega-popular pairings with the characters at No. 2 and 5 get the show off life-support back in the 1970s, but she remains as vital a character today as ever. Heck, she’s even become the mayor of Port Charles!
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