Marlena Black (formerly Craig, Brady, Bradford, Black, Black, North, and Black) is a fictional character on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of our Lives. Deidre Hall played Marlena from 1976 to 1987, and again from 1991 to 2009. She has the distinction of being the only actress to play this role in the character's almost 33-year history. She is also the only Days cast member to be immortalized as a doll.
Through the course of her existence on the...
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Marlena Black (formerly Craig, Brady, Bradford, Black, Black, North, and Black) is a fictional character on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of our Lives. Deidre Hall played Marlena from 1976 to 1987, and again from 1991 to 2009. She has the distinction of being the only actress to play this role in the character's almost 33-year history. She is also the only Days cast member to be immortalized as a doll.
Through 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 include possession by the devil, a plummet from a thirtieth-story-window (which she survived), being used as a surrogate for genetically engineered babies Rex and Cassie during a four year coma, being mind-controlled to believe she was a serial killer, and becoming pregnant late in life and suffering a miscarriage which caused her to have hysterical amnesia. She has been kidnapped numerous times over the past 30...
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