Caroline "Carly" Lee Jacks
Actor 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 October 5, 2005)
• Laura Wright (November 4, 2005 to Present)
Occupation
Owns 30% of E.L.Q. stock
The Cellar, located below Kelly's
Part owner of Metro Court
Former Co-owner of Club 101 with Jasper Jacks
Former Co-owner of Deception Cosmetics
Former physical therapist at General Hospital
Resides At
657 Harbor View Road, Port Charles, New York
Formerly 607 Braidwood Trace, Port Charles, New York
Formerly at Rose Lawn Sanitarium
Formerly on Harbor View Road, Port Charles (Alcazar's mansion)
Formerly an apartment in Port Charles
Formerly the cottage house
Formerly 243 Skycliff Road, Port Charles, New York (The Skycliff House)
Formerly 122 Harbor View Drive, Port Charles, New York (Harbor View Towers: Penthouse 4)
Formerly 66 Harbor View Road, Port Charles, New York (Quartermaine Mansion)
Marital Status
Married (Jasper Jacks) [Married: Apr 27, 2007]
Past Marriages
Alan Quartermaine Jr. (divorced)
Sonny Corinthos (Married: September 2000; divorced)
Sonny Corinthos (Married: February 2001; divorced)
Sonny Corinthos (Married: 2002; divorced)
Sonny Corinthos (Married: Jan 16, 2007; divorced)
Lorenzo Alcazar (Married: June 10, 2005; divorced)
Relatives
John Durant (biological father)
Bobbie Spencer (biological mother)
Frank Benson (adoptive father; deceased)
Virginia Benson (adoptive mother)
Barbara Jean Jones (half-sister; via adoption; deceased)
Lucas Jones (half-brother; via adoption)
Tim Spencer (biological maternal grandfather)
Lena Spencer (biological maternal grandmother; deceased)
Lucas Lorenzo Spencer Sr. (uncle)
Lucas Lorenzo Spencer Jr. (cousin)
Lesley Lu Spencer (cousin)
Children
Michael Corinthos III (son; with AJ Quartermaine, later adopted by Sonny)
Unnamed Child (May 2000; son; miscarriage; with Sonny)
Morgan Stone Corinthos (son; with Sonny)
Unnamed Child (March 2008; miscarriage; with Jax)
Josslyn Jacks (daughter; with Jax) [Nov 4, 2009]
Flings & Affairs
Mr. Roberts
Jason Morgan (one-night stand)
Tony Jones (affair; deceased)
AJ Quartermaine (one-night stand)
Sonny Corinthos (affair)
Roy DiLucca (flirtatious)
Zander Smith (kissed)
Lorenzo Alcazar (affair)
Steven Lars Webber (dated)
Patrick Drake (dated)
Jasper Jacks (engaged)
Crimes Committed
Stole Charlotte Roberts' identity after she 'died' when they were teenagers
Seduced her mother's husband to get back at her mother for putting her up for adoption [1996]
Stole drugs from Tony Jones's medical bag [Aug 1997]
Drugged AJ Quartermaine [Aug 1997]
Dumped a drugged AJ in an alley, and set it up to look as if AJ had started drinking again [Aug 1997]
Attempted to pass her unborn child off as Tony Jones's child [Fall 1997]
Lied about Jason Morgan being her unborn child's biological father [Dec 1997]
She shot Tony Jones, her ex, after he was not sent to jail for kidnapping her son [Apr 24, 1998]
Breaking and entering; broke into Hannah Scott's apartment to dig up dirt on her [Oct 1999]
Broke into Hannah's lock box [Oct 1999]
Adultery with Sonny Corinthos (while married to AJ) [Nov 29, 1999]
Purposely embarrassed AJ in front of European investors at an ELQ party by dressing up as a hooker [Jan 7, 2000]
Pulled a gun on AJ [Jun 2, 2000]
Tape-recorded one of Sonny and Sorel's meetings [Aug 18, 2000]
"Blackmail"; threatened to withhold sex from Sonny if he didn't turn over his one share of Deception [Dec 13, 2000]
Manipulated Gia into locking Laura on the roof [Mar 2001]
Along with Roy DiLucca, set Sonny up to be arrested by the FBI [Apr 2001]
Trespassing/Theft; let herself into Angel Ellis's home to snoop around and stole a roll of film [Sep 5, 2001]
Helped fugitive Angel Ellis skip town [Oct 25, 2001]
Locked Skye Chandler in the boathouse [Mar 25, 2002]
Lied about the details behind her car accident/disappearance [May 2002]
Embezzled money from Club 101 to pay for her fertility procedures [Jun 2002]
Drugged Ric Lansing and threatened him with a gun [May 2, 2003]
Pushed Courtney Matthews' car off a cliff to cover up Courtney's involvement in Elizabeth Webber's hit-and-run [Sep 12, 2003]
Stabbed Jason Morgan with a syringe filled with sedatives [Jan 15, 2004]
Adultery with Lorenzo Alcazar (while married to Sonny) [Winter to Spring 2004]
Arrested for violating a restraining order restricting her from visiting her children [Feb 4, 2004]
Blackmail; threatened to tell Sonny that he is Kristina Davis' father if Alexis didn't agree to be her attorney during the custody battle [Feb 20, 2004]
Perjury; told the court that Sonny never suffered from mental instability [Mar 9, 2004]
Knocked Lorenzo out, and held him captive in the basement [Apr 2004]
Stole her mother’s diary hoping to find clues about her biological father [Summer 2004]
Set fire to Ric Lansing’s apartment in an attempt to destroy a file that incriminated Sonny [Nov 2004]
Broke into Reese's apartment (Carly's former apartment) [2005]
Stabbed Emily [Fall 2005]
Caused Car accident that led to Elizabeth’s miscarriage [Winter 2005]
Assorted crimes while trying to find the serum to cure the Viral Epidemic [Spring 2006]
Switching the tests of Spencer Cassadine's paternity results [Summer 2006]
Fraud; Pretending to be Lorenzo's wife to plant evidence [Summer 2007]
Gave Diane false evidence to get Jason cleared of murder charges [Summer 2007]
Manipulated Sonny into giving up custody of his children by seducing him [Summer 2008]
Maladies and Hospitalizations
Nearly died of severe hemorrhaging when Michael was born [Dec 1997]
Committed to a mental hospital after shooting Tony in open court [Apr 1998]
Fell down the stairs at the Quartermaines during a fight with AJ and miscarried her baby with Sonny [May 2000]
Fell through ice while walking Michael off of a frozen pond [Apr 1, 2003]
Accidentally shocked herself while trying to communicate with Jason from her Panic Room prison in Ric's house [Jun 20, 2003]
Accidentally shot by Sonny while in labor [Oct 24, 2003]
In a coma after being shot and awoke to discover her memories of love for her family were missing [Nov 2003]
Checked herself into the Shadybrook Sanitarium in an attempt to get Lorenzo Alcazar out of her thoughts [Jan 14, 2004]
Checked into Roselawn Sanitarium after suffering a nervous breakdown [Winter 2005]
Suffered a bump on her head during the Metro Court explosion. She was checked and released at the hospital. [Feb 2007]
Injured in an explosion at the docks. She suffered from hypothermia [Spring 2008]
Suffered a miscarriage from injuries sustained in the explosion at the docks. [Spring 2008]
High risk pregnancy [Spring 2009]
Fell down stairs at hospital during fight with Claudia Zacchara [Spring 2009]
Brief Character History
Carly arrived in Port Charles in the spring of 1996 with an agenda. She resented her birth mother, Bobbie Jones, for giving her up for adoption, and Carly wanted to destroy her mother's life. Carly didn't understand that Bobbie had been a teenager living in a brothel and prostituting to support herself. All Carly could see was the life that Bobbie lived now.
Carly quickly put her plan in motion and seduced her mother's husband, Tony Jones. Carly moved in with Tony as soon as his divorce with Bobbie was final. One evening, Carly and Tony had a bitter fight. Carly ended up at Jake's, hoping to find her newest friend (and sometimes lover), Jason Morgan. Instead, Carly found Jason's brother, A.J., and the two of them got drunk and had a one-night stand. The next day, Tony and Carly reconciled, and it wasn't long before Carly discovered she was pregnant. She tried to pass the baby off as Tony's, but she revealed the truth during a heated argument with him. A.J. had not initially remembered that fateful night with Carly, as he was an alcoholic and had blacked out. Around this time it also came to light that Carly was Bobbie's long lost daughter.
Tony and Carly split, and Carly turned to Jason, who felt sorry for her. Carly was terrified that her baby would be taken away from her after it was born, so Jason claimed that he was the father. It was a ploy to protect Carly's custody but it had far reaching ramifications, because it meant lying to Robin, the woman he loved. Carly's labor and delivery was difficult, and both mother and child nearly died. After her son was born they learned that Michael had serious heart complications. It was a condition that both AJ and Alan had suffered at birth. Jason lied to his family, insisting that he was the father. Carly meanwhile couldn't deal with any of it. She told Jason that she needed to get away and she left town for an extended period of time. She returned in time for Michael's christening.
Carly moved in with Jason in part to learn how to take care of Michael and in part because she had nowhere else to live. Tony was disgusted at the thought of Jason and Carly raising Michael and decided to kidnap him. He also ended up kidnapping Robin as well. Jason managed to rescue Robin and Michael just in the nick of time. Robin, who is HIV-positive, didn't have her medications and as a result grew gravely ill. She made a recovery in time for Tony's trial. Carly was furious when Tony was only given community service for kidnapping her son. Deciding to seek her own form of justice, Carly pulled out a gun and shot Tony in open court. Jason made sure that Carly was sent to Shadybrook, instead of jail for attempted murder.
When Carly was released, she found that Jason and Robin had were living in Brenda's old cottage, raising Michael. Resenting the relationship, Carly set out to break them up. Eventually Robin grew tired of Carly's games and lies, and Robin revealed the truth to A.J.. Jason was devastated by Robin's betrayal, and he and Robin split up. Robin realized that the wounds were too raw, so she decided to move to Paris and pursue her medical degree.
Carly's happiness over Jason and Robin's breakup was short lived when she learned A.J. intended to assert his paternal rights. She and Jason made arrangements to leave the country with Michael, but at the last minute Carly panicked, went to the Quartermaine Mansion, and told them that Jason kidnapped Michael. After Sonny told him what had happened, Jason returned to Port Charles and learned that Carly intended to marry A.J., drive him to drink and have him declared and unfit parent. She wanted a year to see the plan through. Jason thought the plan was ridiculous but realized there was no stopping Carly.
Carly's marriage to A.J. was short lived, and she soon decided that she'd leave him. Carly wanted to tell Jason the news, but when she caught up with him he was inside Kelly's slow dancing with Elizabeth. Carly misread the scene and stormed over to Sonny's, intending to gather information from him about Jason and Elizabeth's relationship. Instead, Carly and Sonny ended up having sex. It was Jason's turn to feel betrayed when he found Carly and Sonny together the next morning. Hurt, Jason left the penthouse without telling either that he'd been shot earlier.
Carly later learned she was pregnant, and in true form, didn't want to tell Sonny that he was the father. After falling down the stairs during a fight with A.J., Carly suffered a miscarriage. She and Sonny grieved for their child and slowly fell in love. They would marry several times over the years and hurt each other deeply, but through it all their friendship would prevail.
Their love was truly tested shortly after Carly got pregnant with their son Morgan. By this time Sonny's brother Ric had come to town and was determined to destroy his brother. Ric's wife, Elizabeth, was pushed down a flight of stairs and miscarried their child. Believing Sonny was to blame, Ric kidnapped Carly and held her captive in a panic room in his house that even Elizabeth didn't know about. Ric intended to kill Carly after the baby was born and raise it with Elizabeth.
Carly was terrified and tried everything to escape. Finally, hope came when Elizabeth accidentally found the panic room. Unfortunately, Ric had been secretly giving Elizabeth birth control pills so that she wouldn't get pregnant. Elizabeth had a nearly fatal reaction to them and collapsed from an aneurysm before she could free Carly. Ric realized that he couldn't keep Carly a prisoner any longer and set her free. Carly was not to be reunited with her family though.
Lorenzo Alcazar, one of Sonny's enemies, had come to town and was intrigued with Carly. He quickly abducted her and took her to his private yacht where he initially kept her to use as a pawn against Sonny. Lorenzo's feelings for Carly grew, and she was also attracted to him. Eventually Ric helped Sonny and Jason rescue Carly from Lorenzo's compound, and Carly was returned home.
Then came the night of Morgan's birth, when Carly ended up stranded in the new house Sonny had just surprised her with as a storm raged outside. Carly slipped and took a tumble down the stairs, which sent her into hard labor. Courtney found Carly and went for help but ended up in a car wreck. Lorenzo found Courtney and managed to get to Carly just in time to deliver the baby. Outside, Sonny arrived just in time to hear Carly scream. Fearing for her life, he kicked the door open and fired at Lorenzo. With Lorenzo incapacitated, Sonny rushed over to help Carly deliver their son. Carly looked at her son then passed out. The bullet Sonny fired passed through Lorenzo and hit Carly in the head. A thin trickle of blood ran down her forehead as Sonny realized what had happened.
Carly was rushed to the hospital and underwent life saving surgery. She lingered in a coma where she lived an alternate life with Lorenzo, who was a scholar in the dream. When Carly woke up, she only responded to Lorenzo. Her love for her husband and children were gone. She tried to recapture what she lost but it was difficult. It took almost loosing Sonny to attempted murder charges for Carly to find her love. During a bitter argument with Lorenzo, Carly collapsed. When she woke up her feelings for her loved ones were restored but she had a new problem. She was starting to experience vivid erotic daydreams about Lorenzo. They occurred with such frequency that Carly was beginning to have difficulty coping with everyday life. Desperate for help, Carly checked herself into Shadybrook.
Faith took advantage of Carly's weakness and had her drugged. Lorenzo visited Carly and realized that something was seriously wrong with her. He whisked her out of the sanitarium and to his cabin in the woods where he helped her recover. Sonny, who'd been stranded on an island in the middle of a hurricane, came home and found Carly at the cabin telling Lorenzo that she couldn't see him anymore. It was a tearful parting and Sonny realized that Carly's feelings for Lorenzo were less than platonic. Sonny walked away and wound up in bed with the first woman he saw, Sam McCall, who was hurting from her break-up with Jax. Carly, determined to make Sonny understand that she had ended things with Lorenzo once and for all, found Sonny at the hotel. She walked in on him and Sam, so she rushed back and made love with Lorenzo for the first time.
Carly's erotic fantasies stopped, and she and Sonny would reconcile. There would be troubles, though. Sam McCall learned that she was pregnant with Sonny's child and had moved across the hall with Jason. Jason and Sam soon began having feelings for each other and decided to raise the baby together, much to Carly's dismay. Carly didn't think much of Sam and wanted her out of their lives. Around this time Alexis Davis's daughter, Kristina fell ill. Carly struggled with keeping a long held secret. Carly knew that Kristina was actually Sonny's child, not Ned's, as everyone believed.
A couple of years earlier, during one of Carly and Sonny's splits, Sonny had an affair with is attorney, Alexis. Carly had found them in bed together, and ran off. She ended up in a car accident, but after all her memories came flooding back to her, she decided to stay missing for a while. She came home when she read that they were planning a memorial. Carly and Sonny would reconcile, and later, Alexis would learn she was pregnant with Sonny's child.
During a hotel fire, trapped in an elevator together, Alexis told Carly the truth about Kristina. She wanted Carly to know in case she died and Kristina needed Sonny. Carly decided to keep Alexis's secret because of her own history with AJ and Michael. Faced with Kristina's failing health, Carly realized that the truth had to come out. Sonny reacted just as Carly had feared and told her that he could never trust her again. Carly was hurt that Sonny couldn't forgive her, so she moved out and started to rebuild her life. Kristina recovered after Sam suffered a ruptured placenta and gave birth to a stillborn baby girl. The baby was a match and Kristina received a life saving transplant.
Carly focused on her life and found her biological father, John Durant. John was a federal prosecutor, who specialized in organized crime. John was ruthless and determined, but he also had a soft spot for his daughter. Carly was also casually dating Dr. Steven Webber. The romance would end up on hold when a horrific event rocked Carly's world. Kristina, Michael and Morgan were kidnapped.
It would be revealed that Faith Roscoe, hired by AJ Quartermaine, was paid to kidnap all of Sonny's children so that AJ could reclaim his son Michael. The plan worked. Michael's murder was staged, the "evidence" found after Sonny and Jason rescued Kristina and Morgan. Carly refused to believe that Michael was dead, even as she and Sonny sat at his memorial.
Eventually, Carly would be reunited with Michael, and AJ was arrested. Injured in the capture, AJ would never see the inside of a courtroom or jail cell. Cuffed to a hospital bed and paralyzed from the waist down, AJ was a sitting duck for Dr. Asher Thomas who smothered him with a pillow. Moments earlier, a traumatized Michael had entered the room and started to do the deed himself. When he heard a noise, Michael dropped the pillow and hid. He witnessed the murder and blocked it out.
Carly tried to help her son, but AJ's brain-washing on the young boy had worked. Michael would shut down around Carly. She was forced to watch as Michael opened up to FBI agent Reese Marshall. Reese was an agent who was an expert in child abductions. Her own young son had been abducted and murdered years earlier.
As Reese and Sonny grew closer the more Reese helped Michael, Carly grew increasingly irrational and hostile toward Reese. There was something about Reese that Carly didn't trust but no one would listen to her. She was also having great difficulty seeing Sonny moving on with someone else. In a desperate need to prove her independence, Carly became involved with Lorenzo Alcazar again. Before long, Lorenzo asked Carly to marry him. She accepted after she saw Sonny arrive to Jax and Courtney's wedding with Reese. Despite Michael's strong objections and fragile state, Carly married Lorenzo.
The marriage was shaky from the very beginning. Carly's own mental state was fragile. She was easily agitated and often irrational. The focus of her attention was Reese. She was almost paranoid about the woman at this point and people were starting to notice it. Carly's instincts proved to be right when Reese admitted to Sonny that her real name was Carly Roberts. She had been Carly's best friend who supposedly died tragically and whose identity Carly had assumed years earlier. Reese further told Sonny that what lead to the accident was finding out that 16-year old Carly had slept with Reese's father, Dr. Roberts. Reese's mother filed for divorce immediately, and Reese's world was shattered. Carly, expecting Reese to understand and forgive, tried to talk to Reese about what had happened but Reese refused to listen and jumped into her car, speeding off.
The crash had been horrific and Reese was left in a deep coma with a shattered face. Her mother, in a moment of spite, told Reese's father that Reese had been killed. Dr. Roberts, despondent over everything he lost, eventually took his own life.
Carly's memory was slightly different. Carly had been an impressionable 16-year old who had been seduced and taken advantage of by an older man. Learning that Reese was the real Carly Roberts pushed Carly over the edge. She had a complete breakdown and ended up being institutionalized. Reese would later die of injuries sustained in a train crash, and Carly would make a complete recovery.
Carly's life would take an unexpected turn when her best friend, Courtney, died shortly after giving birth to a baby boy. Determined to be the mother for Courtney's son, John, Carly put aside her dislike of Jax and vowed to help him with the baby in any way that she could. Slowly Carly began falling in love with Jax. When he confessed to her that he wasn't really John's father, as everyone believed, Carly stood by his side. She helped Jax keep the truth about the baby from his real father, Nikolas Cassadine. She even switched the results of a paternity test to preserve the secret. Those efforts turned out to be wasted. Robin Scorpio had learned the truth about John's paternity and at his christening, revealed the truth to Nikolas. Nikolas immediately claimed his son, and a short while later re-named him Spencer to honor his mother and siblings.
Jax and Carly were devastated over losing John. For a while they feared that John was all that had kept them together, but they would soon realize that even without John they loved each other deeply. They would make several attempts at marriage but at the last minute something would happen to prevent it. One of those times, it was Jerry Jacks calling his brother for help. Jax took off immediately, and Carly was crushed.
While Jax was gone, Carly married Sonny to keep from being forced to testify against him. Carly had walked in just as Lorenzo was preparing to shoot Sonny in cold blood. The interruption allowed Sonny to defend himself and Lorenzo ended up gravely wounded. Things were further complicated when a short time later, Sonny and Carly ended up as hostages in the Metro Court crisis that introduced James Craig to Port Charles. James Craig would turn out to be Jerry Jax, who had arranged for Jax to chase a false trail so that he wouldn't be in danger of the international arms deal that was taking place in Port Charles. With Lorenzo in the hospital, James Craig stormed the Metro Court and took hostages when the alarm was activated and the vault locked.
Carly and Sonny grew close during the hostage crisis, and made love afterwards. Carly realized immediately that sleeping with Sonny had been a huge mistake, and she told Jax the truth when he came home. After Jax realized that he was partly to blame because he had abandoned Carly, Jax and Carly reconnected and decided to stop putting off their wedding. As soon as Carly's divorce to Sonny was final, Carly and Jax got married in a lavish but quickly arranged wedding.
Their marriage would not be without bumps. Jerry would once again draw his brother out of town so that he could take care of his business without worry about Jax. Despite their vow that Jerry would never come between them again, Jax's brother could always put a tremendous strain on Jax's marriage to Carly. Despite struggling with fertility issues, Carly became pregnant with Jax's daughter. She would miscarry after being caught in an explosion with Michael.
Carly seemed to be pushed to her limits, when Michael was shot in his father's coffee warehouse and left in what appeared to be a permanent coma. After making the heart-wrenching decision to put their son in a long-term care facility, Carly and Sonny had sex. Carly also asked Sonny to give up his parental rights to protect Morgan from more mob violence.
Jax learned of Carly's one-night stand with Sonny, and he filed for divorce. Their relationship was further compromised when Carly rescued Sonny, who had been left for dead by a rival Russian mobster. Jax overheard Carly lie as she told the police that she and Sonny had been having sex when the Russian had been killed.
When Jax learned that his brother was presumed dead, Carly attempted to comfort Jax. He still intended to file for divorce, but after the holidays, Carly and Jax decided to try dating again. It wasn't long before Carly and Jax renewed their wedding vows, and Carly found out she was pregnant. Carly also was informed by her doctor that she had a rare blood disorder that could kill her and also her child. Carly was determined not to terminate the pregnancy, despite warnings from Sonny and even Jax.
Carly's pregnancy was touch and go as stress continued to mount. She and Claudia fell down the stairs at the hospital during an argument, but Baby Jacks continued to thrive. Carly was joyous when her son, Michael, awoke from his coma. Carly's joy would not last long, when she realized her son resented her for sending him to a long-term care facility. Michael left the facility to live with his father, but Sonny's mob ties concerned Carly and she decided to send Michael to live with the Quartermaine family.
Michael and Carly's relationship slowly improved until Carly witnessed a car crash. Claudia was the driver of the vehicle driven off the road, and she suffered a miscarriage of Sonny's child. Sonny had married the daughter of his mob rival, Anthony Zacchara, in a business arrangement, but it hadn't taken him long to consummate the marriage. Despite hostilities toward Claudia, Sonny grieved for his unborn child and became closer to his wife, further infuriating Carly. Both Michael and Kristina had been on the road that night and neither one of them knew who was responsible for the accident. Michael believed he had run his step-mother off the road, and Kristina allowed him to take the blame. They both decided to run away to Mexico to escape the heartache around them.
Carly's heart ached as her son was taken away from her yet again. Jason and Sam soon brought the kids back, and the truth was discovered that Kristina had been the driver that caused Claudia's accident.
