Tina Lord

Infobox soap character
name = Tina Lord
series = One Life to Live
color = #99BADD
portrayer = Andrea Evans (1978-1981, 1985-1990, 2008-present)
Kelli Maroney (1984-1985)
Marsha Clark (1985)
Nancy Frangione (1985)
Karen Witter (1990-1994)
Krista Tesreau (1994-1996, 1997)
first = 1978
last =
cause =
creator =



caption1 = Andrea Evans as Tina Lord (2008)



caption2 = Karen Witter as Tina Lord


caption3 =
born = 1962 [The character is noted to be 16 years old in 1978.]
gender = Female
occupation = Personal shopper for Logan's Department Store
Former interior designer
residence = Llanfair
1177 Regency Drive
Llanview, Pennsylvania
parents = Victor Lord (father, deceased)
Irene Manning (mother, deceased)
Ted Clayton (stepfather, deceased)
siblings = Todd Manning (brother)
Victoria Lord (half-sister)
Meredith Lord Wolek (half-sister; deceased)
Tony Lord (half-brother; deceased)
spouse = Cord Roberts (1986-1987, 1988-1990, 1991-1993; divorced)
Cain Rogan (1994, invalid)
David Vickers (1995, divorced)
romances = Greg Huddleston (1978-1979)
Johnny Drummond (1980)
Mitch Laurence (1984-1985)
Richard Abbott (1986)
Max Holden (1987-1988)
Dr. Patrick London (impersonating Bo Buchanan) (1988)
Johnny Dee Hesser (1990)
children = C.J. Roberts
Sarah Roberts
grandparents = Randolph Lord (deceased)
Virginia "Ginny" Fletcher Lord (deceased)
Albert Manning (deceased)
aunts/uncles = Powell Lord I (deceased)
Gwendolyn Lord
cousins = Richard Abbott
Powell Lord II (deceased)
Powell Lord III
nieces/nephews = Starr Manning
Jack Manning
Sam Manning
Megan Gordon Harrison (deceased)
Kevin Buchanan
Joey Buchanan
Jessica Buchanan
Natalie Buchanan
Dr. Daniel Wolek
Brian Kendall (deceased)
relatives =

Tina Lord (originally Clayton, formerly Roberts, Rogan and Vickers) is a fictional character on the ABC daytime drama "One Life to Live".

The role was originated in 1978 by actress Andrea Evans, whose first stint lasted until 1981.Schemering, Christopher. "The Soap Opera Encyclopedia", September 1985, pg. 158-166, ISBN 0-345-32459-5 (1st edition)] [http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/cast/653/Tina_Lord Tina Lord profile - Soaps.com] ] [http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/castlist.php?section=past "One Life to Live" cast and credits - SoapCentral.com] ] The character twice recast in 1984 with Kelli Maroney and Marsha Clark. Evans returned in 1985,In July 1985, Nancy Frangione stepped into the role for two days while Evans was ill.] in a storyline credited with putting the series "back on course" and ultimately bringing Tina to her height of popularity. Evans appeared on the cover of "Soap Opera Digest" five times, once every year from 1986 to 1990. [ [http://www.soapoperadigest.com/andrea-evans-cover-slideshow/index.html Andrea Evans Cover Slideshow - SoapOperaDigest.com] Retrieved 4 August 2008.] In 1988 Evans was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series" for the role, but left in January 1990.

Tina was recast again on May 10 1990 with Karen Witter, who played the part for four years until February 14 1994. Witter was succeeded in the role by Krista Tesreau on July 6 1994. On June 12 1996, Tina was written off the show; Tesreau reappeared in September 1996 and again from January 21 to January 24 1997 to facilitate the departure of John Loprieno (who played Tina's ex-husband, Cord Roberts).

ABC.com announced in April 2008 that Evans would soon return as Tina; she reappeared onscreen on June 11 2008. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/tinareturns.html "Andrea Evans returns to "OLTL" as Tina Lord!"] Retrieved from ABC.com on 9 April 2008.] "Comings and Goings: Andrea Evans (Tina Lord Roberts)." "Soap Opera Digest", Vol. 33, No. 24, 10 June 2008, page 15. ] [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080611.html "One Life to Live" recap (6/11/08) - ABC.com] ] Executive Producer Frank Valentini noted, "Even though Andrea has not appeared on "OLTL" since 1990, she has remained among the most requested characters to return to the show ... I welcome her home to "OLTL" and to the role where she made an indelible mark on our audience."

Character biography

Enter Tina

In 1978, longsuffering heroine Viki Lord Riley takes in 16-year-old Tina Clayton as her ward after the death of Tina's mother, Irene Manning Clayton, Viki's best friend from her teenage years. As Viki adjusts to the responsibility of raising a teenager, Marco Dane sees the perfect way to get revenge on Viki.

Marco befriends Tina and opens a modeling agency with a plan to photograph the teen, superimpose her image onto pornographic photos and humiliate Viki by releasing them. Soon Marco grows fond of Tina and changes his plan, but eventually he blackmails Viki with the photos. When Viki stumbles upon Marco's dead body, she takes the photos and flee. She is arrested for his murder, but later exonerated.

Tina becomes involved with Greg Huddleston, and by 1980 she is both seducing Mick Gordon (her best friend Samantha Vernon's boyfriend) and pursuing country-western singer Johnny Drummond. Tina's father, Ted Clayton, comes to town under the guise of reuniting with his daughter but with an ulterior motive — to somehow con Viki and Tina out of as much money as he can.

Ted pits himself against Clint Buchanan, who had taken more than a professional interest in widowed Viki. When Ted learns that Clint is about to propose marriage to Viki, he masterminds the kidnapping of Tina to distract and get close to Viki, and of course get his hands on the ransom. When Tina is safely returned home, Ted proposes to Viki. Flustered, but touched by his request, Viki opts for time to consider the offer; Clint drops out of the romantic triangle. But when Ted is later killed in 1981, a traumatized Tina leaves town.

The heiress

Tina returns in 1984 after having read in her mother Irene's diary that Ted Clayton had not been not her biological father. In 1985, Tina discovers a secret room under the library in Llanfair, in which she finds Nazi-plundered paintings from World War II and a letter written to Viki from her deceased father Victor Lord. In the letter, Victor admits to a relationship with Irene and that Tina is his daughter, which puts Tina and a shocked Viki at odds. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1985-86/19852.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1985, Part 3) - ABC.com] ] Flynn, Lauren. [http://www.soapoperadigest.com/features/oltl/features/puttingonheirs/ "One Life to Live": Putting on Heirs." SoapOperaDigest.com (2007)] Retrieved 4 August 2008.] Viki suffers a relapse of her multiple personality disorder, which is subsequently believed to have been actually originated by a young Viki stumbling upon Victor and Irene in bed. [The actual origin of Viki's dissociative identity disorder is established in 1995 when it is revealed that Victor had sexually abused Viki as a child.] Viki is further humiliated — and furious with Tina — when Victor's confession becomes public. Tina revels in her newly-discovered status as Lord heiress, but is soon manipulated by charismatic schemer Mitch Laurence, who seeks her inheritance. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1985-86/19853.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1985, Part 4) - ABC.com] ] Finding out that Victor's estate would revert to Tina if Viki's illness recurred, Mitch convinces a reluctant Tina to assist him in his plan to do just that. But when Tina realizes that Mitch actually intends to murder Viki's husband Clint Buchanan and frame Viki, she tries to stop him. Mitch accidentally kills Harry O'Neill instead, and Tina herself is accused of the crime; she is later exonerated, but uses Viki's mental illness to gain control of the Lord estate. Tina schemes to bed Clint while Viki's alter ego, Niki Smith, poses as a supposedly cured Viki and plots her own escape from Viki's life. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1985-86/19854.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1985, Part 5) - ABC.com] ] Tina blackmails Niki into divorcing Clint just as Clint discovers Niki's charade. In 1986, Clint ultimately lures Niki to witness a staged sexual encounter between him and Tina, which forces a shocked Viki to reemerge. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1986-87/1986.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1986, Part 1) - ABC.com] ]

Cord and Tina

With Viki well and the sisters somewhat reconciled, Tina finds herself attracted to the good-natured Cord Roberts in 1986. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1986-87/19861.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1986, Part 2) - ABC.com] ] When she discovers that Cord is secretly Clint's son, Tina races to marry Cord before even he knows he is a Buchanan heir. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1986-87/19862.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1986, Part 3) - ABC.com] ] Tina's recurring lies and schemes finally result in their divorce in 1987.

Cord's mother Maria brings her old friend Max Holden to town that year to romance Tina, whom she despises, and keep Tina from reconciling with Cord. Pregnant with Cord's baby and — thanks to Maria's scheming — thinking that Cord knows and does not care, Tina leaves with Max for Buenos Aires, Argentina. Learning Tina is pregnant, Cord follows her to Argentina, but Max and Tina have gotten mixed up in a drug ring and a captive Tina plummets over the Iguazu Falls in a raft. She and her unborn baby are presumed dead. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1987-88/1987.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1987, Part 1) - ABC.com] ] [Rabinowitz, Naomi. [http://www.soapoperadigest.com/features/oltl/2003/oltlfalls/index.html "One Life to Live" Timeline: The Fall Guys (And Gals) of Llanview." SoapOperaDigest.com] Retrieved 4 August 2008.]

Tina turns up alive and appears in Llanview at Cord's wedding to Kate Sanders, at first passing off Max's infant son with Gabrielle Medina as her own son with Cord. Tina is convicted of killing Maria and the baby's true parentage is revealed during the trial; Tina is later exonerated and in 1988 she and Max find her real son with Cord being cared for in the Argentine jungle. Tina and Cord name him Clinton James Roberts after Clint. They ultimately remarry in November 1988, but by 1990 their marriage had once again fallen apart due to Tina's lies.

In 1990, a pregnant Tina is unsure whether the father of her baby is suave Johnny Dee Hesser, son of mobster Carlo Hesser, or ex-husband Cord. Finding out about the baby and Tina's plans to reconcile with Cord, a distraught Johnny bursts into Llanfair, knocking Tina unconscious and attempting to kidnap her. Viki, incapacitated by a stroke and unable to walk or speak, realizes that Tina's life is in danger; her alternate personality Niki Smith emerges. As Niki, Viki is able to stand — and shoots Johnny to death. Initially, both Viki and Tina have no memory of what happened, and Tina becomes the prime suspect in the murder. However, an audio tape recorded in the room later exonerates her, and proves that Viki had acted in self-defense. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1990-91/19904.html "One Life to Live" recap (1990, Part 5) - ABC.com] ] Tina flees to Texas as Carlo makes clear his intention to take his grandchild from Tina when it is born. Cord follows with medical proof that the baby is his, and their daughter Sarah is born in a snowstorm in February 1991. Cord and Tina return to Llanview and remarry, but Cord is presumed dead later that year; he turns up alive around a year and a half later to discover that his supposed widow Tina has taken up with Cain Rogan. Unable to reconcile, Cord and Tina divorce for the final time in 1993. [http://www.geocities.com/oltl_almanac2/notoriouslyremembered/1968_1989/tinalord.html Notoriously Remembered: Tina Lord] ]

Further adventures

Tina becomes romantically involved with con man Cain Rogan, marrying and leaving town with him in 1994, but soon returning alone after Cain goes back to his ne'er-do-well pursuits.

As Dr. Dorian Lord is on trial for the 1974 murder of her former husband (and Tina's father) Victor in 1994, a man named David Vickers comes forward with the diary of Tina's mother Irene. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1994-95/19942.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1994, Part 3) - ABC.com] ] The diary exonerates Dorian and reveals the existence of Victor and Irene's second child — a son, who would stand to inherit a fortune hidden for him by Victor himself.David claims to be that son. Tina returns to town, and despite their connection as full brother and sister, David and Tina find themselves attracted to each other. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1994-95/19943.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1994, Part 4) - ABC.com] ] They sleep together, but David immediately reveals to Tina that he is only pretending to be the missing Lord heir. The couple conspire to take the inheritance, even marrying in 1995 to secure their claim. Eventually town pariah Todd Manning is revealed to be Victor and Irene's son, [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1994-95/19945.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1994, Part 6) - ABC.com] ] and David is arrested. With Viki again under the influence of her dissociative identity disorder, her icy alternate personality Jean Randolph forces David to divorce Tina in exchange for his freedom. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1995-96/19952.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1995, Part 3) - ABC.com] ]

In 1996, Tina moves with C.J. and Sarah to Baltimore, Maryland to become a professional shopper for Logan's Department Store.

The missing years

In 2003, Tina and Cord's daughter Sarah (now calling herself "Flash") returns to Llanview. It is noted that Viki, Cord and the Buchanan family had lost all track of Tina and the children since they had moved to Baltimore and had not heard from them for years. Sarah reveals that during Tina's hiatus from town, she had taken back up with Cain; Sarah claims that Tina and Cain had forbidden her from pursuing her musical dreams, and that Tina's parenting had driven both Sarah and C.J. to run away. Though Sarah had come back to Llanview looking for her missing brother, she discovers that C.J. had joined the Navy, deploying into the Indian Ocean and out of contact. In 2004, Cord returns to collect an injured Sarah, and vows to Viki and Asa Buchanan to find Tina.

When Sarah returns again in 2007, she notes that her mother is "off doing one of her things" and that Tina rarely corresponds but sends her money from time to time. Sarah says that Viki and Clint would have a hard time finding Tina, adding "she's where I got my run and hide genes." Clint confirms that he and Cord cannot locate Tina.

The Crown Princess

The Crown Jewels of Mendorra are stolen in May 2008 upon their arrival in Llanview for display, [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080522.html "One Life to Live" recap (5/22/08) - ABC.com] ] and Tina reappears in town on June 11 2008 as the Crown Princess of Mendorra. [Murray, Jesse. [http://soapnet.go.com/soapnet/article/path-articleNum_5863/category_shows "One Life to Live" Next Week." SOAPnet.com.] 6 June 2008.] She meets with corrupt Llanview Police Commissioner Lee Ramsey, who has stolen the jewels at her request, but soon Ramsey is gunned down and Tina is on the run with the jewels from the sinister U.S. Ambassador to Mendorra Jonas Chamberlain, who apparently wants them for himself. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080612.html "One Life to Live" recap (6/12/08) - ABC.com] ] [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080613.html "One Life to Live" recap (6/13/08) - ABC.com] ] Tina finds refuge with her estranged daughter Sarah and Sarah's boyfriend Cristian Vega; [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080618.html "One Life to Live" recap (6/18/08) - ABC.com] ] [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080625.html "One Life to Live" recap (6/25/08) - ABC.com] ] soon Cristian and his brother, Llanview Police Detective Antonio, discover that Jonas has abducted Sarah and her roommate Talia Sahid, Antonio's lover and fellow police officer. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080627.html "One Life to Live" recap (6/27/08) - ABC.com] ] Tina and the Vegas agree to accompany Jonas back to Mendorra in order to make an exchange: the women for the Crown Jewels. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080630.html "One Life to Live" recap (6/30/08) - ABC.com] ]

In Mendorra, Tina gets the royal treatment from her palace staff and is reunited with her husband, Crown Prince Helmut Krakoff — really Cain Rogan in yet another disguise. Meanwhile, the real mastermind behind the kidnappings reveals himself to his daughter Talia: Carlo Hesser. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080703.html "One Life to Live" recap (7/3/08) - ABC.com] ] Cain is anxious to keep the jewels they have worked so hard for, but Tina is desperate to exchange them for Sarah. She bemoans her lot in life, saying, "I should have gone back to Cord!" [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080707.html "One Life to Live" recap (7/7/08) - ABC.com] ] Carlo, bent on revenge for Tina's part in Johnny Dee's death, exposes her and Cain's fraud publicly and reveals "Jonas" as the true heir to the throne; [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080717.html "One Life to Live" recap (7/17/08) - ABC.com] ] he adds that, per Mendorran law, Cain and Tina will be beheaded for their treason. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080718.html "One Life to Live" recap (7/18/08) - ABC.com] ] Carlo and his minions first drag Tina, Sarah and Cristian to the river above the treacherous Hohenstein Falls. Tina is horrified as Carlo reveals his intent to send Sarah over the Falls to her death, deliberately echoing Tina's own nearly-fatal plunge over the Iguazu Falls in 1987. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080721.html "One Life to Live" recap (7/21/08) - ABC.com] ] Cristian manages to escape Carlo's guards and swim to Sarah's raft; Tina watches history repeat itself as Sarah and Cristian go over the Falls on 22 July 2008. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080722.html "One Life to Live" recap (7/22/08) - ABC.com] ] Logan, Michael. [http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Soaps-News/Life-Live-40th/800041323 "Soaps News: "One Life" Celebrates No. 40 with Blasts from the Past." TVGuide.com] 11 June 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2008.] Cristian turns up alive but Sarah is presumed dead. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080731.html "One Life to Live" recap (7/31/08) - ABC.com] ] Cristian saves Tina and Cain from the executioner's axe, but not before Tina responds to Cain's declaration of love with a thoughtless "I love you too, "Cord!" — a mistake she had also made in 1988 while at the altar with Max Holden. [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1988-89/1988.html "One Life to Live" recaps (1988, Part 1) - ABC.com] ] Sarah reappears alive, just in time to join the others in their escape. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080805.html "One Life to Live" recap (8/5/08) - ABC.com] ] A duplicitous Cain later parachutes from the plane with the Crown Jewels — not knowing that Tina has already switched the gems with fakes — and in Llanview, Tina is soon reunited with Viki, [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080806.html "One Life to Live" recap (8/6/08) - ABC.com] ] and then with Cord. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080811.html "One Life to Live" recap (8/11/08) - ABC.com] ] After Cord hears about the drama in Mendorra, Tina is devastated when he tells her that she has not changed, and they can never be together. [ [http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20080812.html "One Life to Live" recap (8/12/08) - ABC.com] ]

The unwelcome houseguest

When Viki leaves town to tour Africa as a goodwill ambassador, Tina takes it upon herself to move back into Llanfair and install herself as the "de facto" "lady of the manor." Upon reuniting with Viki's daughters, Jessica and Natalie, Tina is eager to play den mother in her sister's absence. She makes fast friends with Natalie, a relative newcomer and fellow "black sheep of the family," but her once-loving relationship with Jessica is now fractious and antagonistic. Stunned by Jessica's cold and rude behavior, Tina is unaware that Jessica is actually "Tess," her dangerous alternate personality, who has secretly emerged from Jessica's psyche to take control and seek revenge on Natalie and her lover Jared Banks, whom Tess blames for the death of Nash Brennan, Jessica's husband and the love of Tess's life.

As Tina settles into Llanfair, she takes care to hide the stolen Mendorran Crown Jewels in Viki's wall safe, fearing she will be apprehended by international authorities. She grows increasingly suspicious of "Jessica's" strange actions when she discovers her niece has ordered construction to be done in the basement levels of the house. "Jessica" claims the construction work is a surprise for the family, but when Tina and her beloved shih tzu "Princess David Vickers" go snooping in the basement, they discover the lavish, soundproofed secret room Tess has built below the house. Tina reflects on her memories of Victor Lord's secret room, and its significance to Viki and her alters, who imprisoned Dorian Lord below Llanfair. Remembering her own complicated relationship with Viki's alters such as "Niki Smith," Tina comes to the horrifying realization that Jessica is no longer Jessica, but actually "Tess," who Viki has told her about. Before Tina can alert the family, Tess traps Tina and "Princess David Vickers" in the new secret room, [ [http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/update/5128/Enjoy_Your_New_Digs "One Life to Live" recap (9/3/08) - Soaps.com] ] but later releases her, and traps Natalie in the secret room instead. Tess stumbles upon the Jewels in the wall safe, and blackmails Tina into keeping quiet about her plans, or else she will call the police and have Tina arrested for stealing the Jewels.

References

External links

* [http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/cast/653/Tina_Lord Tina Lord profile - Soaps.com]
* [http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/whoswho/tina.php Tina Clayton Lord profile - SoapCentral.com]
* [http://www.geocities.com/oltl_almanac2/notoriouslyremembered/1968_1989/tinalord.html Notoriously Remembered: Tina Lord]
* [http://soapnet.go.com/soapnet/gallery/path-galleryNum_1667/category_shows/subcategory_daytimeemmysredcarpet2008 "OLTL"'s Tina Lord: Through the Years." (Photo gallery) - SOAPnet.com]