Meg Cummings
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Susan Ward as Meg Cummings (1997)
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Susan Ward (1997–99) Sydney Penny (1999) |
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| Duration | 1997–99 | ||||||||||
| First appearance | January 6, 1997 | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | December 31, 1999 | ||||||||||
| Created by | Robert Guza, Jr. | ||||||||||
| Introduced by | Gary Tomlin, Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent | ||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||
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| Occupation | Waitress Executive Assistant Business woman |
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| Home | Sunset Beach, California | ||||||||||
 Sydney Penny as Meg Cummings (1999)
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| Father | Hank Cummings |
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| Mother | Joan Cummings |
| Sisters | Sara Cummings |
| Husband | Ben Evans (1999–) |
| First cousins | Tiffany Thorne |
Meg Cummings is a fictional character from the US NBC soap opera Sunset Beach, played by Susan Ward. Meg was the serial's protagonist throughout the whole run. Sydney Penny temporarily took over the role while Ward was filming for the film The In Crowd.
Susan Ward was cast into the role of Meg after her agent submitted her for the role. Ward was already known to series creator Aaron Spelling after starring in his series Malibu Shores. Ward requested "to be put up for the nice girl", via her agent. She also said she preferred playing "nice girl" Meg more than mean characters she had previously played. Ward began filming a role in the 2000 film, The In Crowd. While she had to leave on a temporary basis, Sydney Penny took over for one month, until Ward returned. The serial's creator, Spelling, was impressed with Penny's portrayal of Meg so he cast her into another series he created.
Meg is featured in the first scenes of Sunset Beach. Her storyline sees her arrive from Kansas to escape her unfaithful fiance Tim Truman (Dax Griffin) and find a man she has been talking to over the internet, Ben Evans (Clive Robertson). However, Meg is not aware of Ben's identity. Ward said that Meg is just a "small town girl" who "follows her heart". Meg wants to "find out what the world has to offer", finding out the identity of her internet romance is the "first thing she has ever been passionate about."
After leaving her fiancé Tim at the altar, Meg travelled to Sunset Beach to find a man she had been chatting with over the Internet. Without any knowledge as to that person's real identity, Meg slowly got to know the residents of the town, people who helped her when she fell off a pier after trying to catch a girl that stole her backpack. She took a job at a local bar owned by Ben, a lonely widower, and soon realized Ben was actually her Internet soul mate. The two began to fall in love, but things didn't go as smoothly when Ben's neighbor Annie Douglas (Sarah Buxton) decided she wanted Ben for herself, and was prepared to stop at nothing to achieve that. Meg also learned that her ex-fiancé Tim had followed her to Sunset Beach, though she had no idea that he was helping Annie to damage her relationship with Ben,
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