Santo Dimera
| Santo DiMera | |||||||||||||
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| Days of Our Lives character | |||||||||||||
| Portrayed by |
James Scott (2007-2008) Fabrizio Brienza (2012) |
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| Duration | 2007-2008, 2012 | ||||||||||||
| First appearance | July 9, 2007 | ||||||||||||
| Last appearance | May 8, 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Created by | Hogan Sheffer | ||||||||||||
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| Occupation |
Salesman Businessman |
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| Residence | Tuscany, Italy Galway, Ireland |
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| Family | DiMera |
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| Brothers | 6 unnamed brothers |
| Sons | 6 unnamed sons Stefano DiMera Ryan Brady |
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| Other relatives | Steven Hawk Johnny DiMera Sydney DiMera Thomas Deveraux Theo Carver |
Santo DiMera is a fictional character on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. He was portrayed by James Scott from July 9, 2007 to September 28, 2007. Scott reprised the role on August 20, 2008 as a figment of John's imagination. He is the father of Stefano DiMera and established the wealth and power of the DiMera family.
Santo DiMera is a traveling salesman and the father of crime lord Stefano DiMera. Victor Kiriakis described Santo as "brilliant, wealthy, charming, and utterly crooked" with "operations all over the world". While doing business in Galway, Ireland, he becomes involved with a novice nun, Colleen Brady. Even though he was married and had a son at the time of their first meeting, he is drawn to Colleen and chose to pursue her. Santo and Colleen share letters and begin a relationship after Santo's wife allegedly died. Their relationship is the reason the DiMeras start the Brady–DiMera feud.
According to Stefano, Colleen dies horribly by leaping to her death from a cliff overlooking the ocean (foreshadowing similar future scenes involving members of her family) and Santo blames the Bradys, but it is a simple truth that drove Colleen to her death. Santo's wife never died and Colleen, who had been intimate with Santo, was about to marry him when she learns the truth through her younger brother Shawn Brady, who was inadvertently tipped off by a young Stefano while they were playing together. Santo vows revenge against the Bradys for losing whom he now considers the love of his life, and a vendetta begins. Though occurring off-screen, through occasional commentary from other Brady family members, viewers learn that the feud is particularly painful and vicious, and occasionally violent. In later years Shawn goes to great lengths—including having his own son Bo roughed up and briefly held captive in Ireland—to keep the feud's origins a secret.
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