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As the World Turns CAST - Damian Grimaldi
Full detailed profile on Damian Grimaldi Played by Paolo Seganti on As the World Turns Daytime Soap Opera.
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Damian Grimaldi
Actor: Paolo Seganti Who played Damian Grimaldi over the yearsPaolo Seganti (April 1993 - January 1996; May - September 1997; May - June, Aug.-S eptember 2001; May - Aug. 2006, March 2008 - present) Useful information on Damian Grimaldi* January 1996 - May 1997 - Damian was presumed dead after his jet crashed. |
CURRENT & PAST OCCUPATION
Current: Partner at Kingsley-Malta
Past: Owner of the Falcon Club
DAMIAN GRIMALDI'S HISTORY
Lily Walsh brought her new husband to Oakdale to introduce him. They had met and married while she was in Italy. However, as soon as they were in Oakdale, Holden showed up. Damian could sense that Lily still had feelings for Holden, especially after seeing him. Damian chose not to confront Lily on what he suspected. He took up boxing to relieve some stress. This new obsession with boxing upset Lily and soon drove a wedge between them. She was afraid that Damian would feel fearless and risk their lives. Lily found herself confiding in Holden over her frustration. She also suspected that Damian wasn't being honest in his business deals, and she was right. When Lily was kidnapped and held for ransom, Damian was determined to rescue her. During the struggle, Damian was shot. Fortunately, he survived the gunshot, and Lily stayed devoted to her husband during this frightening ordeal. This brought Lily and Damian closer together, and Lily decided not to give up on their marriage. Lily recommitted herself to be a better wife.
Lily became pregnant with their first son, Luciano (Luke). She soon noticed that Damian wasn't doing the usual business. After witnessing several business dealings, she started thinking that Damian was doing bad business again. She confronted him and told him that she wanted a separation. In desperation to keep his wife and son with him, he kidnapped them, drugged Lily, and then took them to his hometown in Malta. Damian's mother, Orlena conspired with him to keep Lily and Luke captive for Damian. Damian was unaware of Orlena's health problems as she suffered from mild Dementia at times. She managed to keep her family from finding her. During this time, Damian learned that Orlena wasn't really his biological mother. Orlena raised Damian after Orlena drugged his biological mother. Orlena kept his mother drugged so that she wouldn't realize the truth. Before Damian could find out that Orlena had drugged his biological mother for over thirty years, she committed suicide. To make matters worse, Orlena was drugging Lily with the same drugs that she used to drug his mother with. Damian vowed to change for Lily's sake, but before he could prove to Lily that he had changed, Damian was thought to have died in a plane crash.
Several years later, Damian showed up at Lily and Holden's house to take Luke back to Malta for a visit. He wanted to show Luke his heritage. Lily found out that he was still doing bad business and didn't want her son subjected to that. The truth came out when Damian told her that his latest business deal went bad, and now they were coming after Luke. He had to get Luke out of there so, without Lily's permission, he ran away with him. He took Luke to Malta. Lily and Holden went to Malta looking for Luke. Damian had left Luke in a church in Malta until Lily and Holden caught up with him. But before Damian left, he told Luke to never let anyone know that he was a Grimaldi. Damian realized that Luke would be safer with Holden and Lily than with him. He could not provide everything that Luke would need, including safety. Therefore, he let him go, completely.
When Luke was a teenager, Damian paid him a visit. He assured Lily that no one was after him and he just wanted to see his son. At this time, Luke had just announced to his family that he was gay. When Luke saw Damian there, he assumed he was there to try to talk him out of what he was feeling. Damian assured him he was just there to visit with him and to give him a family heirloom. Damian ended up causing more tension in the family when he pretended to side with Luke against Holden. He had Luke enrolled in a camp, and told he and Lily that they had special therapist to help those who were unsure of their sexuality, when actually it was a camp to make them straight. Lily didn't know everything about the camp, but reluctantly let him go. Damian let Luke think that he was helping him. He had the doctor tell Luke that it was Lily's idea that he go there. Luke had an argument with his mother over it and he pushed Lily down a flight of stairs. Lily was pregnant at the time. The fall put her in a coma for a long time. While she was in a coma, Holden and Luke argued. Damian played on Luke's feelings and had Luke move into Fairwinds with him for a while. When Luke started talking about making up with Holden, Damian got desperate. He dropped a bottle of pills at Luke's feet to make Luke believe that something was wrong with him. He told Luke that he was dying, and he wanted Luke to go to Malta with him and see him through to the end. Luke felt torn but obligated to go.
Luke learned the truth about Damian. He wasn't dying, and he also learned that Lily didn't send him to camp, but Damian did. Damian confessed that he wanted Luke's inheritance to pay off someone who was after him. Luke had enough of his father's betrayal. Luke disowned his father, but refused to press charges against him for kidnapping him. He wanted to put the past in the past and protect his real family, the family that loves him unconditionally.
PAST MARRIAGES
Lily Walsh Mason Snyder Grimaldi Snyder (divorced)
FLINGS & RELATIONSHIPS
Renada Minardi (lover)
RELATIVES
Lorenzo Grimaldi (father - deceased)
Orlena Grimaldi (mother - deceased)
Bettina Grimaldi (biological mother)
Dante Grimaldi (half brother)
Eduardo Grimaldi (cousin - deceased)
CHILDREN
Luciano 'Luke' Eduardo Snyder (Son with Lily)
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RELATED DAILY UPDATES
Thursday, November 05 2009: Mystery Man.
At the courthouse, Damian tells Lily that he will stand by any decision she makes. As she gives him a hug, Holden comes in and stares at them. The judge arrives and the hearing starts up. Holden stands up and declares that his marriage is over. He's not angry, he just wants to forget and move on. Crying, Lily tells the judge that this is what she wants too. The judge declares her marriage to Damian 'binding'. Lily runs to Holden before he can leave and asks him if what he said was true, then why did he kiss her yesterday? He says that Maeve left town, but this isn't about her, or even Damian. He's not the same person he used to be, but he thinks she's always waiting for someone to rescue her, just like when they were young. Damian defends her. Holden fobs him off and walks out.
Damian tells Lily that she is free now and he will be waiting for her. When he spots Meg, he walks off to chat with her. He accuses her of baiting him. She brings up the DNA test. They slip upstairs to discuss it and she tells him about her chat with Grady. She accuses him of knowing that Holden was alive all along. He makes excuses but she's far from convinced and says that Lily never would have married him without the false information. He asks her what she wants. "I'm your friend and I think you know what that means," she says. He thanks her. She wants more and begins kissing him.
Holden runs into Lily in the hotel bar. He tells her that he still cares about her. She asks him to keep it to himself. The only reason they aren't married anymore is because of him. As she walks away, he tells her that if Damian hurts her, or anyone else he loves, it becomes his business. She heads up to Damian's room. He sneaks out the door, leaving Meg in the room. Damian tells her he's on a conference call and will be down in ten minutes. When he goes back in, Meg tells him his secret is safe for now.
Wednesday, November 04 2009: See You In Court.
Damian is at the hospital having his gunshot wound treated. Meg sneaks in and begins massaging him. When he notices it's her, he leaps across the room. She claims she isn't stalking him. He tells her that she crossed a line coming in like this. "You cannot manipulate me into loving you," he says. She accuses him of doing exactly that to Lily. He insists that he and Lily have a special connection. Lily calls to tell him about the hearing. When he gets off the phone, he tells Meg that Holden is ending the marriage.
At the courthouse, Lily tells the judge that none of this would have happened if she'd known her husband was alive. Holden says it never would have happened if she didn't have feelings for Damian. He asks to have at least one of the marriages annulled. Damian rushes in and asks Lily if he can talk to her before she decides anything. They step into the hall and he tells her that he will support any decision she makes, but if she decides to annul their marriage, he hopes it could be a sign that they could have a fresh start. "I haven't lost faith in us Lily. I never will," he says. When they return to the courtroom, the judge offers Lily a day to think things over. After Damian leaves, Lily asks Holden if he really wants to go through with this. He claims that he's never stopped loving her, but if she wants him back, she has to promise to cut Damian out of her life completely. If she can't belong solely to him, there is nothing left between them. She says she can't live without him and asks him if he can really walk away from the life they built. He kisses her and says he'll see her tomorrow.
Luke runs into Damian and tells him that Noah's script has suddenly changed and become very personal. He thinks that Mason is trying to undermine his relationship with Noah. Damian tells him that he needs to fight for what he wants.
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