Leo du Pres
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| All My Children character | |||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Josh Duhamel | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1999–2002, 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| First appearance | November 22, 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | August 5, 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| Created by | Agnes Nixon and Jean Passanante | ||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Jean Dadario Burke | ||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former, regular | ||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Con artist | ||||||||||||||
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| Mother | Vanessa Bennett |
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| Spouse | Laura Kirk English (2001–02) Greenlee Smythe (2002) |
| Aunts | Gwyneth Bennett Stone |
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Leo du Pres is a fictional character from the American ABC Daytime soap opera All My Children. The role was portrayed by actor Josh Duhamel from November 22, 1999 to the character's death onscreen on October 17, 2002. Duhamel reprised his role for two episodes in August 2011.
Duhamel won a Daytime Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in 2002 for the role. His portrayal of the character, and the effect it had on viewers, was cited in a TV Guide interview as causing mania, an extension being Leo's death, as viewers could not grasp such a fate for their beloved con artist. On June 6, 2011, Entertainment Weekly reported that Duhamel would return in August to reprise his role as Leo du Pres in a dream of Greenlee Smythe's.
Leo started off his life not knowing his father or his brother. Vanessa had had an affair with a married French vineyard owner, or so it was said. Leo's father refused to leave his wife, and Vanessa was forced to raise her son by herself. She took to a life of finding rich, eligible men to finance herself and her son.
For portions of Leo's life, Vanessa claimed to be his aunt in order to protect her image. Her desire to be among the elite of society prevented her from announcing that she'd had a child out of wedlock.
Short on cash and tired of his boarding school lifestyle, Leo headed to Pine Valley to finally meet his mother's newest husband, Palmer Cortlandt. There was one problem. Palmer was sure that Leo was Vanessa's younger lover. He had his cronies kidnap and drug Leo. Palmer even planned to make it look like Leo had killed Vanessa in a fit of jealousy. Palmer Cortlandt found out just before the staged shooting that Leo was Vanessa's son and jumped in front of the bullet. Leo was thought to be involved in the shooting, but he was never charged with anything. Vanessa learned that Palmer had staged the shooting and used a guilt trip to convince Palmer to hire Leo as a vice president at Cortlandt Electronics.
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