Hannah Nichols is a fictional character from the ABC

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All My Children ''All My Children'' (often shortened to ''AMC'') is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2013, via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and ...

''. The role was originally portrayed by actress

Stacy Haiduk Stacy Haiduk (born April 24, 1968) is an American actress. Her best-known roles include Lana Lang on ''Superboy'', Katherine Hitchcock on ''seaQuest DSV'', Hannah Nichols on ''All My Children'', as Patty Williams and Emily Peterson on ''The Y ...

from March to May 2007. Haiduk reprised her role from September 2007 to January 14, 2008, when the character was killed off.

Storylines

Hannah is the mother of the late Ethan Cambias, a child conceived from a teenage love affair with

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, then known as Alexander Cambias, Jr. Upon giving birth to Ethan, she gives him up and he is adopted by Stanley and Edith Ramsey. Hannah comes to Pine Valley, but as time goes on, she realizes how much she missed when she gave Ethan up for adoption. She sleeps with

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in her office at Cambias, and starts a short relationship with him. She then makes a pregnancy plea to Zach, saying he owes her, and leaves Pine Valley afterwards. It is later confirmed that Zach did not grant her plea. After returning to Pine Valley, Hannah starts working on an assignment given to her by Adam Chandler, pointed against Zach's company, which she later regrets doing. With Adam blackmailing her, Hannah works to get Adam his company back from Zach. She steals the company from Zach while he is preoccupied with getting

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's legal affairs in order. She then gives Adam back his

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and breaks off her relationship with him. After hearing that Kendall has been sentenced to community service for her wrongdoings, Hannah attempts to shoot her while she is partying at

Greenlee Smythe Greenlee Smythe is a fictional character from the American daytime drama, ''All My Children''. She was originally portrayed by actress Rebecca Budig from August 11, 1999 to November 30, 2005, and was portrayed by actress Sabine Singh from April 2 ...

's apartment. While her bullet misses Kendall, it hits

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instead. While Zach is searching for Hannah, she runs into Sean Montgomery, whom she takes back to her hotel room and sleeps with. She then goes off to the cliffs (the same cliffs where

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and Vanessa Bennett died) where Zach finds her. She shares with Zach memories of his father raping her when Zach was off at school. Zach tries to comfort her, but she steps away from him and both slip at the edge of the cliff, now hanging on for life. Zach vows to save her and asks her to hold on to him tightly.

Aidan Devane Aidan Devane is a resident of the fictional town of Pine Valley from the ABC soap opera ''All My Children''. He has been portrayed by Aiden Turner, from June 6, 2002, to December 21, 2009. The character has also been temporarily portrayed by ac ...

, Kendall, and Greenlee rush to where the two are and try to pull them up to safety. As Zach tells Hannah that he is sorry for the awful things that happened to her and pleads for her to believe him, Hannah makes it clear that she forgives him. Zach professes his love to a frantic Kendall to calm her down, and as he does, Hannah tells Zach that it is okay, seemingly realizing how deep his love for Kendall goes. Looking down and surmising the situation, Hannah tells him that everything is as it should be. Sensing that they will both die if they go any longer in their current state, she says "Let's go," and presumably falls to her death. Zach is pulled to safety, distraught over the one woman he could not save.

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