Oliver Fish
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| One Life to Live character | |||||
| Portrayed by | Scott Evans | ||||
| Duration | 2008–10 | ||||
| First appearance | January 15, 2008 | ||||
| Last appearance | April 12, 2010 | ||||
| Created by | Ron Carlivati | ||||
| Introduced by | Frank Valentini | ||||
| Classification | Former, regular | ||||
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| Other names | Fish | ||||
| Occupation | Llanview police officer | ||||
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| Parents | George Fish Barbara Fish |
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| Children | Sierra Morasco Fish |
Oliver Fish (often referred to onscreen as Fish) is a fictional character on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. He was portrayed by Scott Evans from January 15, 2008, through April 12, 2010. The June 2009 announcement that the character would be romantically linked to another man in an ongoing story line came to wider attention when Patricia Mauceri (Carlotta Vega) was replaced after reportedly voicing personal religious objections to her character's involvement in the plot.
Initially brought in as Oliver for five episodes in January 2008, Evans returned more than 30 times over the next year-and-a-half, saying in a June 2009 interview with AfterElton.com that his appearances had been "building up" since the beginning of 2009. Oliver played a supporting role in several storylines, and was briefly linked romantically to two female regular characters, Layla Williamson (Tika Sumpter) and Stacy Morasco (Crystal Hunt).
On June 15, 2009, the openly gay Evans confirmed rumors that Oliver would be going through a "coming out story" and hinted at the character's possible past and future romantic entanglements with male character Kyle Lewis (Brett Claywell). "I think right now it's going to be a story of his journey and how he's dealing with all this stuff ... he's doing everything in his power to kind of put this [being gay] on the backburner and not let it be a part of his life, but with Kyle in the picture, it's just coming to the forefront."TV Guide later quoted Sue Johnson, vice president of daytime programming at ABC, saying:
In telling the love story of Fish and Kyle, Kyle has to get over the fact that Fish is pretending he’s not gay, and that’s something really new and interesting to explore — a journey we haven’t tackled before." Johnson noted, "Soaps have a history of exploring social issues, and there’s been a lot of progress where gay issues are concerned. When we wanted Bianca to kiss Lena on [All My Children], we had to jump through hoops to make it happen. It seems people are more accepting of gays now. Yet, at the same time, you look at what’s happened with Proposition 8 and you go, whoa, we haven’t come as far as we’d like to think we’ve come ... We’re getting a lot of press for our gay storyline and we like that, but it’s nice to think we’ll soon see the day when this is no longer a big deal.
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