Annie Lavery
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| Portrayed by | Melissa Claire Egan | ||||||||
| Duration | 2006–11 | ||||||||
| First appearance | July 10, 2006 | ||||||||
| Last appearance | August 5, 2011 | ||||||||
| Created by | Megan McTavish | ||||||||
| Introduced by | Julie Hanan Carruthers | ||||||||
| Classification | Former, regular | ||||||||
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| Other names | Annie Novak Annie McDermott Annie Chandler |
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| Residence | Oak Haven Mental Hospital Pine Valley, Pennsylvania |
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| Parents | Walter Novak Emma Novak |
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| Brothers | Richie Novak |
| Spouse | Terry McDermott (2000–05) Ryan Lavery (2007–09) Adam Chandler (2009–10) Scott Chandler (2010) |
| Daughters | Emma Lavery |
Annie Lavery is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama All My Children. She was portrayed by Melissa Claire Egan. On January 20, 2011, Egan announced that she had just taped her last episode at AMC a few days earlier on her Facebook page with Annie last airing on March 21, 2011. Annie returned on July 28, 2011, in scenes at Oak Haven with Erica Kane, Marian Chandler, and Janet Dillon.
Of the role, Egan has stated during a 2012 interview with On-Air On-Soaps:
She divorces her ex-husband, Terry McDermott, when she learns that he has a penchant for seducing young teenage virgin girls. Fearing what Terry will do to their daughter, Emma, when she reaches puberty, Annie sues for custody, but loses thanks to Terry's impeccable record. Desperate, Annie kidnaps Emma and takes her on the run. With help from Erin Lavery and Jamal Cudahy, Annie hides out from Terry and the authorities until September 2006 when Terry is killed by Jonathan Lavery. Prior to Terry's death, Annie mistook Jonathan's brother, Ryan, for Terry and shot him. Ryan survived the shooting.
Annie's ex-husband, Terry, as it turns out, is not Emma's biological father because Annie had been artificially inseminated (a DNA test had been done during her divorce from Terry and custody proceedings showed that Annie is not Emma's biological parent either). David Hayward tells Dixie Cooney that he has run a DNA test on Emma, and, lying to Dixie (in order to get her hopes up and to see him as a savior), finds out that Emma is actually Tad Martin and Dixie's lost daughter, Kate. Annie becomes angry at Dixie's belief that Emma is Kate, but refuses to take a DNA test because she already knows the results of the earlier DNA test done during her divorce from Terry, but does not tell anyone else of this. She later relents and another DNA test is done (without David's involvement, and which uses samples from Tad, Dixie, and Annie), which proves that Emma is not Kate. Relieved at the result, Annie then learns from Ryan Lavery (who has become her friend) that she may possess a DNA condition called chimera, which means that she has two sets of DNA. More DNA tests are run at various labs. Finally, one lab proves that Annie is actually the biological mother of Emma. In the process, Ryan and Annie become closer and go out on their first date. Annie confides to Kendall Hart that she is falling in love with Ryan. Kendall is somewhat perturbed, because, before leaving, David tells her that Emma is actually Ryan's daughter as well. Kendall then sees Annie as a rival for Ryan's affections, even though Kendall is married to Zach Slater and has a son, Spike (conceived through artificial insemination with Ryan as well). Kendall asks her half-brother, Josh Madden, to run a DNA test to see if Ryan truly is Emma's biological father.
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