Susan Lucci

Actress Susan Lucci arrives at the 38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards held at the Las Vegas Hilton on June 19, 2011, in Las Vegas. Lucci has played the character Erica Kane since 1970 on the soap opera "All My Children," which comes to an end on Sept. 23, 2011. The show debuted in 1970 as well.

Media personality Meredith Vieira, left, and actress Susan Lucci arrive at the 38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards held at the Las Vegas Hilton on June 19, 2011, in Las Vegas. Lucci had been nominated for nearly 20 Daytime Emmy Awards, until finally winning one in 1999. According to IMDB, Lucci "received a four-minute standing ovation" at the award ceremony.

Actress Susan Lucci arrives at the 38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards held at the Las Vegas Hilton on June 19, 2011.

From left, executive producer Julie Hanan Carruthers, actresses Bobbie Eakes, Susan Lucci, creator Agnes Nixon, actress Rebecca Budig and actor Cameron Mathison speak onstage at the ABC "All My Children" Q&A portion of the 2010 Winter TCA Tour at the Langham Hotel on Jan. 12, 2010, in Pasadena, Calif. The series, which has been on the air since 1970, ends on Sept. 23, 2011.

Actress Susan Lucci attends the 7th Annual ABC & SOAPnet Salute Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids Benefit closing celebration at The New York Marriott Marquis on March 13, 2011.

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Erik Estrada, left, and Susan Lucci arrive at the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on June 27, 2010, in Las Vegas.

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Regis Philbin, left, and Susan Lucci present the award for outstanding drama series to "The Bold and the Beautiful" at the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on June 27, 2010, in Las Vegas.

Susan Lucci poses on stage for a photographer during a skit at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Aug. 30, 2009, in Los Angeles.

Actress Susan Lucci attends the Elton John AIDS foundation "An Enduring Vision" benefit, in New York, on Nov. 16, 2009.

Actress Susan Lucci poses in the press room at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on June 20, 2008, in Hollywood, Calif.

As the most famous face in daytime television history, Lucci has held audiences spellbound for years as the sexy, sassy, beautiful "woman you love to hate," Erica Kane, on ABC's "All My Children." In May 1999, all of America stood and cheered when she won the Emmy Award for Best Actress. In 2008, she was teamed up with Tony Dovolani on "Dancing With The Stars."

In this image released by ABC, Susan Lucci stands with her partner Tony Dovolani on stage during "Dancing With the Stars," Nov. 5, 2008, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. The couple was eliminated from ABC's popular dancing competition.

Soap opera actress Susan Lucci poses at the Cipriani Wall Street Concert Series benefiting UNICEF and the Sarah Ferguson Foundation at Cipriani Wall Street, April 17, 2007, in New York.

Actress Susan Lucci poses for photographers, Oct. 23, 2006, in New York, before being inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame during the 16th Annual Hall of Fame awards dinner at the Waldorf Astoria.

Actress Susan Lucci, of the daytime's "All My Children," poses with Sesame Street puppets on the red carpet at the Daytime Emmys April 28, 2006.

With honorary mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant looking on, actress Susan Lucci attends a ceremony at which she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Jan. 28, 2005, in Los Angeles.

Actress Susan Lucci is flanked by the Honorary Mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant, left, and Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, President/CEO Leron Gubler, right, during the ceremony at which she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

Susan Lucci attends the 10th Annual Michael Awards, benefiting the National Children's Leukemia Foundation, held at Capitale, June 14, 2004, in New York.