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Guiding Light Characters
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Elizabeth
AMANDA SPAULDING (AKA – Mandy Harper)
PLAYED BY:
- Kathleen
Cullen (July 18, 1978 to August 12, 1983; Christmas 1987)
- Toby Poser (October 1995 to March 16, 1998)
WORKS:
Executive at Spaulding Enterprises
Former temporary president of Advantage Systems
Former madam
Former singer
Former partner in LTA Industries
ABOUT:
 Amanda
first came to town in the late 1970’s with her mother, Lucille. Lucille
was an overprotective mother who taught her daughter that men couldn’t
be trusted. This fear of men caused her first marriage to break up. She
couldn’t consummate the marriage, and her mother somehow made her think that her
husband had raped her.
Shortly after she became friends with another man, Ben, who helped her
to throw away some of her emotional baggage. He helped her become her
own person and found a letter that revealed that Amanda wasn’t Lucille’s
biological daughter.
It came out that Amanda was Alan’s daughter from an affair with a woman
named Jennifer Richards. Brandon finally confessed this to Lucille
before dying. After his death, he left his entire estate to Amanda, and
everyone assumed that Amanda was his illegitimate daughter.
Eventually, the truth came out about her true parents, but this was
after Jennifer killed Lucille in self–defense. Amanda wanted to get
to know her real parents, and Alan vowed to spend time with her. However,
Alan was put in prison for cooperating with Roger Thorpe, so Amanda
became president of Spaulding Enterprises.
Amanda fell in love with Mark Evans, a man Jennifer was also in
love with. They began to have an affair until it came out that he was
only with her so that he could steal the company out from under her.
Due to her personal problems, she made some major mistakes at work. This
caused Alan to go behind her back and strike a deal with Billy Lewis.
Not long after, she moved to California to be with her new husband.
In 1987, Phillip requested that she come back to town as a surprise for
their father. She did, and while in town gave her brother her shares of
Spaulding Enterprises.
It was another eight years before Amanda would return to Springfield once
more. This time, she was bitter and hardened. Sick of all the Spaulding
lies, she was willing to do anything in order to get what she wanted.
She had even started an escort service back in California.
She got back into the family business and worked with Roger Thorpe.
When she was arrested, he was the one who helped her get out of jail (by
blackmailing an FBI agent. Impressed with each other, she and Roger decided to get
engaged. This forced the Spauldings to welcome Roger into their
lives, as well as their family company.
They soon got married and left town to go work in the California
offices of Spaulding.
During their marriage, Roger found out that Amanda was in fact Brandon’s
daughter. He had lied to Lucille, and Alexandra knew the truth all
along.
There was no more mention of Amanda until the fall of 2004. When Alan
called her, she didn’t mention her husband or where she was living. With
Sebastian’s return, they were all informed that Amanda was living in
Italy.
Page proofread by
Laura 9/29/09
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