Dinah Marler

Dinah Marler ~ Dinah Marler was the long lost daughter of Ross Marler and Vanessa Chamberlain. Vanessa never told Ross she was pregnant and had given Dinah up for adoption. Dinah’s adoptive parents died and she was placed with a second pair of adoptive parents where she created a sister bond with another girl named Adele, later revealed to be India von Halkein’s adopted daughter Dorrie. Dinah eventually ran away feeling unwanted and ended up spending the most of her formative years in a carnival troop. She arrived in Springfield as a teenager and her identity was slowly revealed. She was considered a good girl during her first stay in Springfield, but between 1989 and 1995 she lived as a party girl in Europe and she became a bad girl during her subsequent Springfield stays. She didn’t grow up with half-brother Bill Lewis, but developed a close relationship especially after he transferred back to Springfield University, after being SORAS-ed. She had some contact with Michelle through Michelle’s best friend Bill and when she dated Michelle’s cousin Alan-Michael Spaulding who she dated during her first Springfield stay, but she was mostly focused on her own problems. (She had been severely burned in a fire she started in a misguided effort to get husband Hart’s attention when Bill says he needs to check on her during the foursome’s stay in the Millennium loft.) She was off screen having gone to Europe in hiding after accidentally shooting Hart Jessup, from the same month as the Manny’s church service until 2004. Dinah played an important role in the final Manny storyline. Dinah had decided she was the one who really belonged with Cassie Layne’s (her former rival over Hart) current husband, former Prince Edmund Winslow. Her plots to get him for herself ended with her becoming his and Cassie’s surrogate and unfortunately pushed Edmund (who never got the professional psychological help he needed since Richard simply exiled him instead – sorry still bitter) over the edge. After Dinah miscarried, Edmund who felt he was losing Cassie and that the only way he thought he could hold on to her was with a child, kidnapped Manny’s daughter Hope and passed her off as his and Cassie’s child. Dinah, who he had held captive to keep her quiet, escaped, came and took Hope, brought her to Danny and told him everything. A DNA test proved Hope was Manny’s child. Restoring Hope to her parents was a turning point in Dinah’s life and started her on a long road (with many misturns) to redemption. She had popular romances with Jonathan Randall, A.C. Mallet, and Shayne Lewis, and all too short paring with Matt Reardon in the romance front during her final Springfield stay. Her path to redemption saw her being hired by one time friend, Harley Cooper (Dinah had delivered her daughter Daisy) at Spaulding and got caught up in the political intrigues there. She was eventually shot while saving then husband Mallet’s life and the resulting brain injury slowed her down for a long time and spelled the end of her marriage to Mallet. Dinah fought her way back and desperate to prove to everyone she was someone to be respected or feared not pitied, she launched a secret and successful takeover bid of Spaulding, using her inside knowledge of her cousin Phillip (Phillip’s biological father was Justin Marler, Ross’ full brother). She turned the company over to her brother Bill, hopeful of rewarding him for standing by her and giving him the power she thought he deserved, but when she felt he too was turning his back on her everything went horribly wrong, leading to the unending story of Grady kidnapping Lizzie Spaulding, Bill’s true love. Eventually she was able to reconcile with Bill and after a brief marriage to Shayne crumbled when she admitted she’d let his mother Reva be arrested for a crime Dinah herself committed and did nothing to stop it, she eventually found her way back to Mallet and they are currently traveling around Europe together.  (See Hope Santos, Ross Marler, Bill Lewis, Vanessa Chamberlain, and Edmund Winslow)

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Tags: A.C. Mallet, Ashlee Wolfe, Bill Lewis, Cassie Layne, Daisy LeMay Cooper, Dinah Marler, Edmund Winslow, GL, Grady Foley, Guiding Light, Harley Cooper, Hart Jessup, Hope Santos, India von Halkein, Jonathan Randall, Justin Marler, Lizzie Spaulding, Phillip Spaulding, Reva Shayne Lewis, Ross Marler, Shayne Lewis, Vanessa Chamberlain