Blake Thorpe
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| Duration | 1975–80, 1988–2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | July 9, 1975 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | September 18, 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Bridget and Jerome Dobson | ||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Allen M. Potter | ||||||||||||||||
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| Other names | Christina Bauer Christina Thorpe Blake Lindsey C. Blake Thorpe Darlena LaCrosse Fern LaPlante C. Blake Marler Chrissy Blake Spaulding |
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| First cousins | Emily Norris |
Blake Marler is a fictional character on CBS's daytime drama Guiding Light. She was portrayed by Elizabeth Keifer from August 19, 1992 to September 18, 2009. Previous portrayers include Gina Foy from June 1975 to May 1978, Cheryl Lynn Brown from January 1979 to September 26, 1980, Elizabeth Dennehy from May 1988 to June 2, 1989 and Sherry Stringfield from July 21, 1989 to August 3, 1992.
Christina Blake Thorpe was born on-camera in July 1975. Her mother went into labor at the Cedars Hospital cafeteria. Though she was thought to be the daughter of Holly Norris Bauer and Ed Bauer, it later came out that Christina was the product of an affair between Holly Norris Bauer and Roger Thorpe. When this was revealed, Ed Bauer divorced Holly though, being very attached to young 'Chrissy', he agreed continue to raise her as his daughter, with the stipulation that Roger not be a part of her life. In 1979, Holly married Roger, though the marriage was stormy one, ending when Roger raped Holly. Holly pressed charges against Roger though, when it looked as though he would be acquitted, she shot him (in a moment of post-traumatic stress), and was convicted of his murder and sent to prison. While her mother was in prison, Christina lived with Ed and his new wife Rita, until it was learned that Roger was in fact alive (thus negating Holly's murder conviction). After an initial failed kidnapping attempt, Holly fled with Christina to Santa Domingo. However, Roger followed them, eventually cornering them. The encounter ended with Roger falling over a cliff to his presumed death. In an effort to start over, Holly relocated with Christina and her mother Barbara Norris to Europe, where they remained for nearly a decade.
Much later, as an adult—and now going by her middle name, Blake—she returned to Springfield as a spy for Alan Spaulding. Soon, she was tied up in the circuit of double-crosses between Alan, Phillip and Alex where each of them tried to outdo the other. Things were worsened by the reappearance of her father, Roger, who had long been presumed dead in 1989. Phillip tricked Blake into marrying a man posing as him on a yacht, but soon they resumed their romance when she started having true feelings for him. Things became even more difficult after Phillip and Blake married and she tried to cover up the fact that his former wife, Beth, might still be alive. Insecure, she began an affair with Phillip's younger brother, Alan-Michael, while searching for Beth herself, going so far as to have Phillip briefly committed to a mental hospital. Phillip eventually found Beth, ending the marriage. Blake ran to former brother-in-law Alan-Michael in an attempt not to lose a hold on her share of the family fortune. Alan-Michael's wife, Harley, did everything could to not lose her husband. Harley tried to get even with Blake, but Blake paid Harley to divorce Alan-Michael and faked a pregnancy so that he would marry her. Soon after, her ex-boyfriend kidnapped and tried to kill Alan-Michael and Blake. When the couple was rescued by Roger, Alan-Michael soon discovered Blake's deceptions and left her. She spent some time trying to get him back and pulled him into her blackmailing schemes, but failed to shake his obsession with Eleni Andros. She quickly dove into a relationship with her mother's former flame District Attorney Ross Marler, much to the chagrin of her father, who blackmailed Ross out of his political career. Blake initially seduced Ross only to hurt Holly, who was in love with Ross, but soon fell in love with him herself. They eventually managed to win both of Blake's parents over, and married in 1994.
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