Former daytime stars have signed on for a Lifetime movie series that will be based on the late novelist V.C. Andrews' "Cutler" series.
Donna Mills (ex-Madeline Reeves, General Hospital) and Jesse Metcalfe (ex-Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald, Passions) have been tapped to star in the series, which is still in pre-production. Reeves will play Lillian Cutler, the villainous grandmother of the novel's protagonist and main character, Dawn Cutler. Metcalfe will play Ormand Longchamp, Dawn's adoptive father.
Metcalfe began his career as Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald on Passions, the late NBC soap, in 1999. Metcalfe starred in the role for five years between '99 and 2004, and he was one-half of the popular supercouple Miguel and Charity (Molly Stanton).
Since launching his career on Passions, the sky has been the limit for Metcalfe, who landed his first major primetime role on ABC's Desperate Housewives in 2004. Metcalfe then went on to star as Christopher Ewing in all three seasons of TNT's Dallas reboot.
Playing a villain won't be anything new to Mills, who is universally known as one of the best performers to ever play a villain. While Mills's career has expanded far beyond daytime and into primetime and film, the actress took Port Charles by storm in 2014 when she debuted on General Hospital as the conniving and steely Madeline, the wicked mother of Nina Reeves (then Michelle Stafford) and stepmother of Nathan West (Ryan Paevey).
Mills remained in the role of Madeline on a recurring basis until her character's off-screen death in 2018. For her work as Madeline, Mills won the 2015 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series.
Prior to joining GH, Mills became most famous for her role as Abby in the Dallas spinoff Knots Landing, which she originated in 1980 and filled until the show's conclusion in 1993. Her first acting credit came as a character in the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm in 1966. Mills went on to star in another CBS soap, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, as Laura Donnelly Elliott from 1967 until the series wrapped in 1973.
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