Kendall Hart | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All My Children character | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First appearance | February 24, 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last appearance | July 8, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification | Former: regular | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Created by | Megan McTavish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Introduced by | Felicia Minei Behr (1993) Jean Dadario Burke (2002) Ginger Smith (2013) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Crossover appearances | One Life to Live | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kendall Hart is a fictional character from All My Children, an American soap opera on the ABC network. The character was portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar from February 24, 1993, to July 3, 1995,[1] and by Alicia Minshew from January 2002 until the show's series finale on September 23, 2011.[2] On March 7, 2013, it was announced that Minshew would guest star on the Prospect Park's continuation of All My Children. She appeared on the second July 8 episode.[3]
Kendall is the daughter of Erica Kane, a child conceived when Erica was raped on the night of her 14th birthday by movie matinee idol Richard Fields. Emerging as one of daytime television's most popular and layered characters,[4][5] Kendall was originally written as a complex villain, described as a "complicated bad girl"[6] and "the scheming daughter of the biggest schemer of them all, Erica Kane,"[7] but was later reformed. The writers scripted her as a heroine,[8] while keeping devious aspects of the character intact.