Emily Quartermaine Returns to General Hospital (sort of) to Celebrate a Cultural Milestone

A trip back to my acting roots on the set of the iconic daytime TV show for its 60th anniversary.

I began my acting career young, like Young-Sheldon-level young, and appeared as an uncredited background actor in a few small films before landing a leading role on the iconic soap opera General Hospital at the age of ten. I remember walking into the casting building located at the ABC Studios lot in Los Angeles for my first audition to play Emily Bowen Quartermaine surrounded by young girls who looked similar to me, also waiting to audition. Longtime casting director Mark Teschner played my scene partner during the audition reading, and though I had no experience, he loved my performance enough to have me come back and read again (in the business this is referred to as a “callback”) for the brilliant and lovely Wendy Rich, who was showrunner of GH at the time.