Carly Corinthos
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Caroline "Carly" Benson Corinthos is a fictional character residing in the town of Port Charles on the American soap opera General Hospital. Laura Wright is the fourth actress to portray Carly, and has since November of 2005. Carly originally came to town to get revenge on her biological mother, Bobbie Spencer, for giving her up for adoption. Bobbie was a teenage hooker and gave Carly up because she could not care for her. Carly was adopted by Frank and Virginia Benson, but Frank abandoned the family when she was a preschooler and Carly was raised in modest circumstances. Carly resented being poor and resented her adoptive mother for not telling her the truth about her adoption. She found out accidentally when she was 13 and afterwards ran wild. When Carly came to Port Charles, she called herself Carly Roberts. She'd assumed the name of her best friend, Charlotte "Carly" Roberts, who was presumed dead in a car accident when they were teenagers. Carly's real name was Caroline Leigh Benson. Few people knew her true identity in Port Charles for years. Ultimately, Bobbie learned the truth and mother and daughter patched up their relationship. Carly later learned that her biological father was John Durant, one of Bobbie's regular johns, and Carly also developed a relationship with him before he died.
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[edit] Early years on the show
When Carly first came to town, she slept with Bobbie's estranged husband, Tony Jones, to get revenge on her birth mother. Carly became pregnant in a one night stand with Alan "AJ" Quartermaine Jr., but slept with Tony the same night and was unsure which man fathered the baby. She went to great lengths to keep AJ from telling Tony he might be the baby's father. At one point she drugged the recovering alcoholic AJ, loaded him onto a laundry cart and dumped him in a back alley behind a bar to make him think he was drunk. She wanted him to leave town and go to a rehabilitation facility so he wouldn't be around when the baby was born. Her efforts failed and AJ demanded a DNA test when the baby was born. Midway through the pregnancy, when both Tony and AJ had threatened to take the baby from her, she persuaded her former lover Jason Morgan, a mafia hitman and AJ's half brother, to claim that he was actually the baby's father.
[edit] The mafia years
Custody battles over Carly's son Michael Corinthos III have been ongoing on the show for much of the past decade. Carly suffered from post-partum depression after Michael was born and left town for a time, leaving Michael to be raised by Jason. A few months after she returned, Tony abducted the baby, thinking he was his. Michael was recovered and Tony was put on trial. Carly shot him in open court, wounding him, when he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Carly, also judged temporarily insane, was committed to a mental hospital for a time after the incident and Jason continued to raise Michael. Carly married AJ for a time to keep Michael, after Jason's girlfriend Robin Scorpio told AJ that he was the actual father. However, Carly was unhappy with the Quartermaines and had an encounter with mobster Sonny Corinthos and became pregnant by him. She miscarried that baby after she had a fight on a staircase with AJ that ended with her fall down the steps. Carly divorced AJ and married Sonny. Michael was ultimately illegally adopted by Sonny after Sonny forced AJ to sign away his parental rights. Sonny ordered his henchmen to hang AJ from a meat hook and threaten to kill him if he did not give up Michael. Carly also later had a son, Morgan Corinthos, by Sonny, who was born while she was being held captive in a panic room by Sonny's half-brother Ric Lansing, who intended to raise the baby as his own. Carly was accidentally shot in the head by Sonny while giving birth to Morgan in the rescue attempt. Sonny and Carly divorced. She has also married and divorced mobster Lorenzo Alcazar. She was then involved with Jasper "Jax" Jacks. Carly and Jax lied about the paternity of John Michael Cassadine/Spencer Cassadine, who was the son of Jax's dead former wife Courtney Matthews. Jax switched a paternity test to make it seem he was the father when Nikolas Cassadine actually fathered the boy. Jax and Carly were forced to give the baby back to Nikolas when Robin Scorpio revealed the truth at the baby's christening ceremony. Carly also continues to take a proprietary interest in her best friend Jason Morgan and would have married him if he had expressed a romantic interest in her. She continues to be connected to Sonny and is helping him deal with bipolar disorder. Jasper "Jax" Jacks returned from his trip when Carly came and rescued him. Jax had a tough time trying to get Carly to take him back. After all his hard work he earned Carly's trust back. On October 16, 2006, Jax proposed to Carly and she gladly excepted. Carly now continues to try to keep Sonny out of her personal life. Sonny has been plotting to make sure Carly and Jax's wedding doesn't happen, but Carly and Jax continue to fight him. Carly and Jax set a date but their wedding was postponed due to Luke and Laura's remarriage and 25th Wedding Anniversery being the same day.
[edit] Trivia
Carly doesn't drive because her friend, the real Carly Roberts, supposedly died in a car accident. (Unsurprisingly, the real Carly a.k.a Reese Marshall had faked her death, but has since actually died.) She had Zander Smith help her learn to drive, and after she caught Sonny in bed with Alexis Davis, she drove her car into a lake and everyone believed she had died.
Her full name is Caroline Leigh Benson.
[edit] Family
[edit] Parents
- John Durant (biological father; deceased)
- Bobbie Spencer (biological mother)
- Frank Benson (adoptive father)
- Virginia Benson (adoptive mother; deceased)
[edit] Children
- Michael Corinthos III (son; with AJ, illegally adopted by Sonny)
- Unnamed Child (son; with Sonny; miscarriage)
- Morgan Corinthos (son; with Sonny)
[edit] Siblings
- Barbara Jean "B.J." Jones (maternal adoptive half-sister; deceased)
- Lucas Jones (maternal adoptive half-brother)
[edit] Grandparents
- Tim Spencer (maternal grandfather)
- Lena Spencer (maternal grandmother; deceased)
[edit] Aunts and Uncles
- Lucas Lorenzo "Luke" Spencer (maternal uncle)
- Tracy Quartermaine (maternal aunt by marriage)
- Ruby Anderson (maternal great aunt; deceased)
[edit] Cousins
- Lucas Lorenzo "Lucky" Spencer, Jr (maternal first cousin)
- Elizabeth Webber Spencer (maternal first cousin-in-law)
- Cameron Webber (maternal first step-cousin once removed)
- Lulu Spencer (maternal first cousin)
- Bill Eckert (maternal first cousin once removed; deceased)
- Jenny Eckert Hornsby (maternal first cousin once removed)
- Sly Eckert (maternal first cousin once removed)
- Fred Eckert (maternal first cousin once removed; deceased)
[edit] Romantic Entanglements
[edit] Marriages
Marital status: Engaged to Jasper Jacks
- Alan "AJ" Quartermaine Jr. (divorced)
- Sonny Corinthos (divorced)
- Sonny Corinthos (divorced)
- Sonny Corinthos (divorced)
- Lorenzo Alcazar (divorced)
[edit] Other Significant Relationships
- Dan Roberts (affair/statutory rape; deceased)
- Jason Morgan (lovers)
- Dr. Tony Jones (affair; deceased)
- Alan "AJ" Quartermaine Jr. (one night stand; deceased)
- Sonny Corinthos (affair)
- Roy DiLucca (flirtatious)
- Zander Smith (kissed; deceased)
- Lorenzo Alcazar (affair)
- Steven Webber (dated)
- Lorenzo Alcazar (lovers)
- Dr. Patrick Drake (kissed)
- Jasper Jacks (lovers)
[edit] Actress History
- Sarah Brown (April 8,1996 to April 23, 2001)
- Tamara Braun (May 2, 2001 to April 15, 2005)
- Jennifer Bransford (April 18, 2005 to Octomber 5. 2005)
- Laura Wright (November 4, 2005 to Present)
[edit] References
Carly Benson Corinthos profile at soapcentral.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title Carly Benson)
