suzanne rogers played maggie horton on days of our lives.
suzanne rogers played maggie horton on days of our lives.
who plays maggie horton on days of our lives?
suzanne rogers
original cast member frances reid, who played alice horton, remained on contract with "days of our lives" until her death on february 3, 2010, though she made her last appearance on the show in december 2007. original cast member john clarke, who played mickey horton, left the series in 2004. suzanne rogers, who plays maggie horton has been on the show since 1973, and susan seaforth hayes has played julie olson williams since 1968 with a few breaks in-between, and also her husband bill hayes, who has played doug williams since 1970, though neither seaforth hayes nor hayes is employed with the serial on contract.
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after mickey dies in 2010, maggie begins a new friendship with victor kiriakis. the two grow closer, despite victor's marriage to vivian alamain. the vengeful vivian plots to have maggie entombed in a crypt in the kiriakis mausoleum, but as fate has it, ends up there herself. when vivian is freed, she manages to entrap maggie, and for days, her relatives are worried about her absence. eventually, victor finds her and she is rushed to the hospital. maggie is stunned when she discovers that victor knew vivian was entrapped and did nothing about it. after victor demands a divorce from vivian, he begins to court maggie. she struggles to accept victor and his criminal past, but is able to build a relationship with him. maggie and victor begin to date and victor proposes to maggie in september 2011. during their engagement, hope comes across a letter from alice to maggie, written the day before alice died. alice reminds maggie about an experimental program she and mickey entered into over thirty years prior, maggie had attempted to harvest some of her eggs. eventually she and mickey abandoned the project, though the eggs were preserved. it was revealed that daniel jonas was her biological son, a product of these missing eggs. this also makes melanie layton her granddaughter. on november 8, 2011, victor and maggie get married. that christmas julie tells maggie that she will always be a member of the horton family, and extends an ornament to victor, daniel, and melanie, despite their not being biological hortons. in 2012, maggie and victor experience brief marital trouble when it is revealed that victor knew about maggie's missing eggs all those years. maggie was eventually able to forgive him although she continues to keep him in line when his ruthless ways get the better of him. maggie also said goodbye to melanie, who left town. additionally, maggie opened her home to her nephew, nick fallon, marie's grandson, who was recently paroled. though maggie has a new husband, son, granddaughter, and home, she is considered to be the matriarch of the horton family and still maintains a relationship with the members of the horton family.in february 2016 her son daniel jonas was injured in a car accident that also injured eric brady, brady black and jennifer horton. he eventually dies from his injuries and maggie makes the decision to take daniel off life support and donate his heart to her step-grandson brady. maggie's life began to get more complicated when a young woman named summer showed up in salem and informed her that she was the child maggie had when she was only 17 and had believed to be stillborn. in the middle of all of this, victor's estranged brother, deimos, showed up, vowing revenge against victor. he poisoned maggie with pills that caused her to have dizzy spells. after one serious dizzy spell, maggie fell down the stairs in the kiriakis mansion, was rushed to the hospital, where victor was informed that not only had she broken her back, but that her legs were once again paralyzed, like they had been when she had first met mickey. victor learned that deimos had poisoned her and had an antidote which he would give maggie on the condition that victor turn all his assets over to him. determined to save maggie from instant death, victor agreed. maggie's recovery seemed more psychological than physical, but with support from her husband and the horton's, maggie became encouraged to fight to walk once again, and victor declared his determination to stand by her in her time of need, even deciding to retire from titan to devote all of his time to her.
maggie horton