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Days of Our Lives CAST - Dr. Marlena Evans - Black
Full detailed profile on Dr. Marlena Evans - Black Played by Deidre Hall on Days of Our Lives Daytime Soap Opera.
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Dr. Marlena Evans - Black
Actor: Deidre Hall Who played Dr. Marlena Evans - Black over the yearsDeidre Hall (1976 - 1987, 1991 - present) Useful information on Dr. Marlena Evans - Black* Married to John Black. |
CURRENT & PAST OCCUPATION
Current: Psychiatrist
Past: Talk show host
DR. MARLENA EVANS - BLACK'S HISTORY
Marlena was first glimpsed as one of the psychiatrists treating Mickey when he was in the Bayview Sanitarium. Not long after, she was in the asylum herself after being drugged and having her identity stolen by her twin sister, Samantha. Although she escaped, her sister recaptured her and subjected her to electroshock treatment. The man in Marlena's life, Don Craig, began to see the dramatic change in her character and started to figure out what was going on. Eventually he got Marlena released and Samantha was arrested and sent to another sanitarium.
Marlena and Don then married and soon had a child. Sadly, the child died of SIDS and Don blamed her for the death. They separated later that year. Early the next year, Kellam Chandler began to pursue her. When she rejected him, he raped her. As the months went by, she began receiving threatening letters. Around this time, dead women were turning up all over Salem thanks to the Salem Strangler. Fearing that she was being stalked, she hired Roman Brady as her bodyguard. She left town for awhile to avoid the nightmare her life had become. When she returned, she discovered that her stalker had been in her apartment and killed her twin sister. Realizing that she was still alive, the strangler came back for her, but this time Roman was there and killed her attacker.
As he helped her put her life back together, Roman and Marlena fell in love and married once Roman's divorce went through. The early years of their marriage were rife with deceptions as they tried to take down Stefano. They faked their deaths more than once and she even married Eugene Bradford to make Roman's death seem convincing, but eventually the evidence surfaced and Stefano was put away where he 'died'. Roman returned and they had twins, but, soon after, Roman also died, presumably for real.
The next year, a strange, heavily bandaged, amnesiac arrived in town. She began to treat him and, from the tattoo he had she suspected that he was Stefano. When the bandages came off she was even more surprised to discover that it was Roman. Little did she know it was really John Black (who was really Forrest Alamain). They renewed their wedding vows, though he still had trouble remembering their past together. The past of the mysterious man did come after him, however, and Marlena was caught up in it. She was believed killed in an explosion, while she had actually been abducted and taken to Stockholm by one of John's old enemies. Bo and Kayla managed to track her down and free her but, as she went back to Salem, her abductor managed to send her off on a doomed plane to crash in the ocean. Everyone thought that she was dead.
She remained gone from the scene for five years only to reappear with a strange medal around her neck. John began to try and trace where it had come from and ended up in Mexico where he happened to run into Roman, the man whose life he had been living. Roman was brought back and Marlena chose to resume her life with her real husband. As she tried to return to her normal life, she began counseling Roger Lombard, the drunken driver who had hit Kimberley Brady. Unfortunately his wife, Stella, got the wrong idea and held her captive in the boiler room of an abandoned warehouse. John came to rescue her and they escaped just before the warehouse could be demolished. This rekindled their love for each other. He decided that he should leave town and leave her to Roman, but, before he left, they ended up making love on a table at work. Her daughter, Sami, witnessed this and, when Marlena became pregnant, shielded this from everyone. She even doctored paternity tests to prove that Roman was the father. Once Belle was born, Stefano arrived just in time for the christening and revealed the truth about Belle's paternity. Roman was crushed and left town, but John had already moved on with Kristen.
Once Stefano had come back to town, he had become smitten with Marlena and wanted her. He began to drug her and take advantage of her. The chaos that he brought into her life opened her up for demonic possession. While she was working for Satan, she burned down the fish market, the Christmas Tree place, tried to kill Bo and Billie and shot a cop when he tried to arrest her. She also tried to kill John and Kristen, but John, who had gone back to being a priest, realized what was going on. He preformed an exorcism and saved her. Stefano was injured in the rescue and left with amnesia. She began to tend to him and his feelings for her deepened.
Meanwhile, Tony set John up for his own death and she began having visits from the Woman in White who led her to information that would free John. Knowing that Stefano was behind John's imprisonment, she confronted him and he absconded with her to his underworld lair in Paris. There he kept her in a golden cage and wanted her to be his queen. She began to get depressed so he had a magical set of goggles made so that she could see the life she was missing in Salem. The plan backfired when they allowed her to communicate with John. He went after her and Stefano captured him. After putting him on trial, he prepared to execute him. An explosion sabotaged this and John and Marlena escaped.
When they returned to Salem, he had decided to continue his relationship with Kristen and she had to bless it, though she knew that Kristen was deceiving him. When she broke down and was ready to tell the truth, Kristen had her imprisoned. Laura Horton managed to rescue her and the truth finally came out. This left her and John to reunite but, as they did, Roman returned to town. She was conflicted, but it turned out that Roman was deathly ill. As she cared for him, Stefano returned and offered to help. He would cure Roman if she could forgive him and help make him respectable. She grudgingly agreed and they went to the jungle to find a cure. Although he was on the mend, he was still weak so John and Marlena tried to fight their passion for one another until he recovered, fearing that he would relapse. They split up and he returned to Kristen. Soon after, Roman did relapse and Stefano had to cure him again. As he recovered, she and John began an affair, which Roman found out about and left her.
While John and Marlena eventually remarried, it was a difficult time thanks to Sami's murder trial and Kristen's 'death'. They went to Hawaii together where John disappeared again after trying to save a swimmer. Her fears of his death proved false though and he soon returned.
Back in Salem, she took a job as a talk radio host but the ratings were terrible. Her assistant took over the show. Things soon got worse when she discovered that John was the father of Hope's baby, impregnating her during one of his 'evil' episodes. Eventually they found out that this was false and Bo was actually the father. Returning to her psychiatric practice, she began to treat the Gemini twins and Tony DiMera. She and John traveled to the DiMera island where they learned that she had given birth to two Dimeras: Rex and Cassie and that their father was Tony. Although appalled by this, she couldn't deny an attraction to Tony but pushed him away. It turned out that this episode was a ruse and the children were biologically Kate's (Kate's eggs and Roman's sperm had been implanted in Marlena).
Returning to Salem things weren't much better. The Stalker was soon on the prowl and many of her friends were being murdered. John became suspicious of her but tried to pin everything on Tony. All the time, Tony had been drugging Marlena and manipulated her into killing the town residents. She even admitted to John that she was the killer and, after a fight with him led her to fall from her balcony, she began accusing him of being the murderer. She was charged and sent to prison. When she attempted to escape she was shot. John carried her dead body around town until he was finally persuaded to put her to rest.
In reality, she wasn't dead. She was brought to a desert island where all of the dead residents were residing. As time went by, the residents of the town came down to rescue their friends and family. Tony, who had masterminded the whole thing, wouldn't let people escape so easily and caused a volcanic eruption. Most of the captives escaped on ragged rafts to be rescued out at sea by the coast guard. Marlena was not rescued. Along with Roman and a few others, she was abducted by Tony and taken to his European castle. There, he forced Marlena and Roman to watch videos of John and Kate being intimate. Eventually they gave in to each other but Jack soon found a way out and helped them escape.
When they returned, they found John and Kate engaged but didn't tell them of their infidelity. She also realized that she was pregnant and that Roman must be the father. The truth came out and John didn't take it well. As he fought with Roman, they knocked Marlena down the stairs and she had a miscarriage. Upon awakening and hearing the news, she went into a violent seizure from which she awoke with amnesia.
Alex North, a specialist, was brought to Salem to care for Marlena, a choice which soon began to bother John when Marlena became affectionate toward her doctor. John confronted him and Alex came clean that he had been married to Marlena but was presumed dead. This made all of her other marriages invalid. Soon another person from Marlena's past appeared, Lois Banks. She told John that Alex had been abusive and had come to hurt her. Unfortunately he wasn't the only one. Lois had come to try and kill Marlena himself. After numerous attempts, John trapped her and shot her up with truth serum. She confessed that she and Alex were working together to take Marlena out. Discovering this, Alex killed her and framed John for the murder before renewing his wedding vows with Marlena. He then tried to kill John in an explosion but this accidentally caught Marlena. As she recovered in the hospital, she regained her memory. Alex discovered this, drugged her, erased her memory again and ran off with her. John went in pursuit and managed to shoot Alex off of a cliff.
As Marlena recovered, her memory returned and she and John left Salem. She returned to town later, on a separation from John, so that she could sort her life out. In Salem, the Brady's were being tormented by the Gloved Hand and she tried to help. She received a strange job offer in New Jersey and went to investigate. She vanished but John later discovered her bound up in a cart. Returning to town, they found that Kayla and Steve had been poisoned and jetted off to Canada for a cure. Their plane went down and she jumped from it to be rescued by Smokey Robinson. John found her and they managed to get a hold of the drug in time to save Steve and Kayla. As John investigated the Gloved Hand, it became apparent that EJ Wells was involved. They tracked evidence back to Italy (where they renewed their vows again) and discovered Stefano deathly ill in bed. He had enough strength to deal John the death hand tarot card though. Once the couple returned to Salem, EJ shot John and he fell into a coma. Since then, she has continued to communicate with him through their dreams while she has tried to help Kayla and Steve battle EJ.
PAST MARRIAGES
Alex North (dissolved by his death in 2006)
Donald Craig Sr. (not legal)
Roman Brady (not legal)
Eugene Bradford (not legal)
John Black(not legal - twice previously)
FLINGS & RELATIONSHIPS
Richard Cates (only dated)
Eugene Bradford (fake)
John Black (adulterous)
RELATIVES
Frank Evans (father)
Martha Evans (mother)
Samantha Evans (twin sister - deceased)
Robert Evans (uncle - deceased)
Trista Evans (cousin - deceased)
Will Roberts (grandson)
Claire Kiriakis (granddaughter)
CHILDREN
D.J. Craig Jr. (son - deceased)
Eric Brady (son)
Samantha "Sami" Brady- Roberts (daughter)
Belle Black-Kiriakis (daughter with John Black)
Unnamed (miscarriage with Roman Brady)
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Monday, October 13 2008: Life is Too Short!
At the hospital, Marlena receives a piece of mail stating that John has yet to sign the divorce papers. John shows up and wants to know why she didn't return his calls. She had nothing more to say, so he confronts her about talking with EJ. John says Elvis accused him of being heartless and wants to know if she feels the same. She admits she tried to find the old John inside him but is running out of hope. She calls him a stranger. They go through the same argument. John has been trying to impress her, but he's not loving, kind and selfless, she points out. "It was in his nature." She asks if he can be that kind of man and he says, "No, but I'm trying."
John tells Marlena about Nicole's pregnancy and that Elvis is the father. Marlena is shocked and asks why Nicole confided in him. "She trusts me," he says, but when Marlena asks why he told her, he asks if that was wrong. She promises to keep it confidential and he explains that Nicole trusts her. He grins and thinks that she and EJ are probably out picking out items for the baby, now. Marlena is shocked and smiles. "You did the right thing!" Sami runs up to them and interrupts John asking Marlena on a date. "Mom, I need to talk to you!" John tells her he'll call her, and leaves, while Marlena calms Sami down. She tells Marlena about Nicole being pregnant with EJ's baby, but Marlena already knows and wonders why this is so upsetting to her. Sami thinks Nicole will trap EJ, and is after him for his money. Marlena reminds Sami that she of all people knows how tough it is to be the mother of a DiMera heir. She can't see why Nicole would lie. Sami asks if Marlena's happy that Nicole's pregnant. She laughs. She's not, but she is happy that it's Sami who isn't pregnant!
Friday, October 10 2008: EJ, I'm pregnant....
Roman and Marlena talk outside the pub, about her love for the old John Black and how he won't go to the doctor to be examined. They're worried about Sami.
Roman and Marlena go into the pub and Sami changes her mind about confiding in them. She launches into a discussion about current events, from Caroline's bail, to Nicole's marriage to Trent, until Roman stops her. He asks her to come clean, but Marlena thinks she has changed her mind about confiding in them and asks if she's done something wrong. Sami admits she's in trouble and needs their help. She asks if it's okay to keep a secret from a loved one, and Marlena says it's not. Sami brings up Marlena's affair with John. She kept that a secret. Marlena says it was wrong and stands by her answer. "If you trust this person, you have to tell them the truth," she says. Sami asks, "Even if it will destroy an innocent life?" She finally agrees to tell them, but only if they swear not to tell anyone. They refuse to go down that path once again, due to past mistakes and Sami apologizes for wasting their time, but decides not to tell them the truth. She tells them they've helped her. "I know what to do now." She's going to tell the truth! Once Sami leaves, they ponder who Sami has to talk to. Marlena thinks it's EJ.
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