Di Henry
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Kelli Giddish as Di Henry
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| All My Children character | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by |
Kelli Giddish (2005–07) Heather Kenzie (2008) |
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| Duration | 2005–08 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | March 15, 2005 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | November 17, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Megan McTavish | ||||||||||||||||
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| Other names | Diana Kirby Diana Cole Dixie Cooney Martin |
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| Occupation | East Coast rep for Fusion Cosmetics | ||||||||||||||||
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| Parents | Seabone Hunkle Lila Kirby |
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| Adoptive mother | Louise Kirby |
| Brothers | Del Henry |
| Half-brothers | Will Cortlandt |
| Half-sisters |
Dixie Cooney Lanie Cortlandt Rampal |
| Aunts | Louise Kirby |
| Nephews |
JR Chandler (half) AJ Chandler (half great) |
| Nieces | Kathy Martin (half) |
Di Henry is a fictional character from ABC's daytime drama, All My Children. She was portrayed by Kelli Giddish from March 15, 2005, to September 19, 2007. From November 10 to 18, 2008, Di was portrayed by Heather Kenzie.
The character was a part of a major storyline within the soap opera medium, which spun intrigue, as well as outrage, having assumed the identity of legendary character Dixie Cooney Martin for several months before the ruse was finally over. Di's actions and ties to other characters during the storyline was subsequently studied by Jeremy G. Butler in Television: Critical Methods and Applications.
Di first appears as a fellow inmate of Krystal Carey. She defends Krystal when other inmates are harassing her. Even though Di has never spoken about her past, she seems to know much about Tad Martin.
After Di is released from prison, she is hired by Dr. David Hayward to fool Tad and JR Chandler into thinking she is the late Dixie Cooney Martin. After she is given the alias Diana Cole, she begins working as the new nanny to JR and Babe's infant son, Little Adam. Meanwhile, Hayward plants evidence in Switzerland to make it look as though Dixie may have survived the car crash that killed her.
Eventually, a suspicious Tad takes Di's compact from her purse to compare her fingerprints to Dixie's, and they match. Confronted with these results, Di confesses to everyone that she is Dixie. Unknown to all of them, however, is that the compact is actually an old compact of Dixie's that David kept after she was killed. Not much is known about Di's past, except that she seems to have a heart problem similar to Dixie's, and she only has one kidney just like Dixie. She also has a scar on her neck that could have been caused by a car accident similar to the one Dixie was killed by.
Di (as Dixie) explains that after losing her unborn baby in the accident and a series of grueling surgeries, she fell into a deep depression and wanted to start a new life, but that she could not stay away from her family, so she decided to reappear incognito. The incognito decision was because she was not entirely sure she wanted to return to her old life.
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