Cliff Warner | |||||||||
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All My Children character | |||||||||
Portrayed by | Peter Bergman | ||||||||
Duration | 1979–89 | ||||||||
First appearance | 1979 | ||||||||
Last appearance | 1989 | ||||||||
Created by | Agnes Nixon | ||||||||
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Occupation | Physician | ||||||||
Residence | Denver, Colorado | ||||||||
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Siblings | Linda Warner |
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Spouse | Nina Cortlandt (1980–81, 1981–83, 1986–87, 1989—) |
Children | Bobby Warner Michael Warner |
Grandchildren | Samuel Grey |
Nina Cortlandt Warner | |||||||||||||||||||||
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All My Children character | |||||||||||||||||||||
Portrayed by |
Taylor Miller (1979–84, 1986–89, 1995–96, 2010) Heather Standford (1984–85) Barbara Kearns (1985–86) |
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Duration | 1979–89, 1995–96, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
First appearance | 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Last appearance | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Created by | Agnes Nixon | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Residence | Denver, Colorado | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Parents |
Palmer Cortlandt Daisy Murdoch |
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Siblings |
Ross Chandler Andrew Preston Pete Cortlandt |
Spouse |
Cliff Warner (1980–81, 1981–83, 1986–87, 1989—) Matt Connolly (1987–89) |
Children | Bobby Warner Michael Warner |
Grandchildren | Samuel Grey |
Grandparents | Myra Murdoch Sloane |
Aunts and uncles | Bess Cooney |
Nieces and nephews | Julie Rand Chandler |
First cousins | Lanie Cortlandt Rampal Will Cortlandt Dixie Cooney Caleb Cortlandt |
Other relatives |
J.R. Chandler Kathy Martin Adam Chandler III |
Cliff Warner and Nina Cortlandt are fictional characters and a supercouple from the 1980s Cliff and Nina storyline on the American daytime drama All My Children. Cliff was portrayed by Peter Bergman, and Nina was portrayed by Taylor Miller.
The two characters were in a popular on-again/off-again relationship that spanned the entire decade. Within the story, although the couple split up numerous times, they end up marrying one another in four separate ceremonies, one being titled as "the most sumptuous wedding seen on daytime television up to that date". For over twenty years, the pairing held the record for the most number of marriages to each other on a soap opera, at four.
Dr. Cliff Warner and Nina Cortlandt meet at Pine Valley Hospital where Nina is recovering from an appendectomy. They begin a fairytale romance and fall madly in love. Nina's father, Palmer Cortlandt (James Mitchell), disapproves of their relationship, and plots to break them up. Nina, who is diabetic, develops retinopathy, which will make her go blind. Palmer refuses to let her know that there is a cure. Nina break up with Cliff, who she had agreed to marry, in order to not be a burden to him. Eventually, Cliff finds out about Nina's condition, and is able to get her treatment. They reconcile and decide to go ahead with their wedding plans. In the meantime, Nina meets ne'er-do-well, Sean Cudahy (Alan Dysert), who works with Palmer to get Nina away from Cliff.
Nurse Sybil Thorne (Linda Gibboney) plots to get Cliff all to herself. Cliff is vulnerable after his split with Nina and makes love to Sybil, who ends up pregnant with his child. She alerts him to the fact just before his wedding to Nina in November 1980. Despite knowing this could tear them apart, Cliff marries Nina in a fairytale wedding. Sybil gives birth to a boy named Bobby. When Nina finds out the baby's parentage from Sybil, she files for divorce. Sybil is found murdered, and Cliff is arrested, but it is later found that Sean Cudahy is the killer. During the trial, it was revealed that Nina's friend, stable worker Monique Jonvil (Gillian Spencer), was actually the presumed-dead Daisy Cortlandt, Palmer Cortlandt's ex-wife and Nina's mother.