Janet Marlowe Dillon
Actor History
Kate Collins (contract: 1991 to 1992; 28 November 2005 to present) (guest: November 2005)
Melody Anderson (one day in 1993)
Robin Mattson (1994 to May 9th, 2000)
Lisa Gold (Mirror Janet; 2005 to present)
Occupation
Former Accountant at Enchantment
Former bookkeeper for Holidays
Former secretary for Dr. Jonathan Kinder
Worked as an accountant for Orsini Vineyards
Worked as Accountant for the Chicken Shack
Tutored Hayley Vaughan in math.
Resides At
Near Denver, Colorado
Formerly at The Dillon House, 312 Pine Street
Marital Status
Widowed (Trevor Dillon)
Past Marriages
Axel Lester Green (divorced)
Trevor Dillon (invalid)
Trevor Dillon (mid-1990s to 2005; dissolved by his death)
Relatives
Wilma Marlowe (mother)
Natalie Marlowe (twin sister; deceased)
Tim Dillon (nephew)
Amanda Dillon (adoptive niece)
Children
Amanda Dillon (daughter; with Trevor) (adopted by Natalie at birth)
Two unnamed sons with Axel (not mentioned since the 1980s)
Flings & Affairs
Trevor Dillon
Trevor Dillon
Palmer Cortlandt
Pierce Riley
Crimes Committed
Drugged Trevor soon after arriving in Pine Valley (hoping that he’d sleep with her)
Put vodka in Harold the dog's water dish (trying to kill him with alcohol poisoning)
Kidnapped Hayley.
Shot Brian Bodine.
Kidnapped Natalie and left her in a well to die.
Pretended to be Natalie and married Trevor under that pretense.
Killed Will Cortlandt with a crowbar,
Kidnapped Nat again, forcing her on a train and later shot her
Returned to PV under the assumed identity of Jane Cox.
Trapped Kendall in a church basement during Trevor and Laurel’s wedding
"Fixed the brakes" on Laurel's car, trying to kill her.
Tried to smother Laurel with a pillow while she was in the hospital recuperating from her accident wounds.
Blackmailed Palmer Cortlandt after he slept with her
Paid an actor to pretend to be Will Cortlandt to drive Dixie crazy.
Drugged the Dillon's dog, Harold, and packed him on a U-Haul headed to California
Helped Erica lug around the corpse of Jonathan Kinder (before they knew he wasn't dead)
Violated the restraining order Trevor had against her on numerous occasions.
Tossed Sophie Malinowski's body in a trash dumpster when she believed that she had killed her.
Set a trap at an abandoned warehouse to kill Sophie.
Killed Sophie (with a crowbar) in self-defense.
Lied about Trevor's involvement in Sophie's death.
Killed Trevor and stored him in a freezer. [Late 2005]
Dangled Kendall from a hammock on the Fusion rooftop.
Pushed Babe down a flight of stairs at the hospital. [Nov. 18th, 2005]
Drugged the pumpkin soup at the Chandler Thanksgiving dinner. [Nov 2005]
Knocked out David Hayward and scheduled him for open heart surgery. [2005)
Started the fire that nearly killed Kendall and Greenlee. [2005)
Kidnapped Little Adam and dropped him off in a manger scene. [Dec 2005]
Pushed Di Henry through the ice at the boathouse. [Jan 2006]
Drugged Krystal Carey and Babe Carey [Jan 2006]
Kidnapped Brooke, Joe, Opal, Adam and Krystal. [Jan 2006]
Loosened the gas valve and set the explosions at Erica Kane's Mardi Gras ball (leading to the death of Ethan Cambias). [Feb 2006]
Kidnapped Babe Carey and Adam Chandler III to make J.R. Chandler think Babe kidnapped him. [Feb 2006]
Kidnapped Jenny Martin. [May 2007]
Brief Character History
Janet arrived in Pine Valley in 1991 to find her twin sister Natalie. She became very jealous of everything that Natalie had and decided to take everything for herself, including Nat's fiancé, Trevor Dillon. To do so, she kidnapped Nat, threw her in a well, and assumed her life. Gut instincts told Harold the dog and Tim that "Natalie" was not the real Nat. Trevor married her, thinking she was really his "doll". Janet became pregnant. When it was finally discovered that she was not Natalie, she was sent to prison. At her court hearing, Janet revealed that she was pregnant with Trevor's child. Janet was placed under the watchful eye of a police officer at the hospital. While there, she escaped one night and killed Will Cortlandt. She the kidnapped Nathalie again and while they were in the cabin where Janet planned to kill her, she went into labor. Nat ended up delivering baby Amanda. As a parting good will gesture, Janet allowed Nat to adopt Amanda.
In jail, Janet was a model prisoner and she was given a chance for early parole by undergoing experimental surgery, plastic surgery to give her a new face. In jail, Janet met Kendall Hart, who'd been thrown into the slammer for perjury. The two struck up a quick friendship. Upon her release, Janet returned to PV to see her daughter Amanda, under the name "Jane Cox". She got a job working for Tad Martin and fell in love with him. Trevor and "Jane" became very close and the two were scheduled to be married. Laurel Banning, however, did some digging and learned that Jane was not who she was pretending to be. Before Laurel could break the news of what she had learned, her car plunged off the road --- the car's brakes had been cut. On the wedding day, Harold again saved the day and everyone discovered that Jane was really Janet From Another Planet.
Between her release and the wedding day, Janet obtained work at The Chicken Shack. Janet managed to seduce owner Palmer Cortlandt into bed and later blackmailed him.
Once the truth about Janet's identity came out, Dixie started a campaign to have Janet thrown back into prison. She felt that Janet had not served enough time for killing her brother, Will. Janet tried to drive Dixie nuts by hiring an actor to play her dead brother, but Tad uncovered her plot.
Janet devised a plan to kill Trevor and Laurel by placing a bomb in the church where the two were planning to get married. She could not go through with it (In actuality, the writers reworked the storyline because of concerns about the real-life bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.)
That same day, she was hit by lightning, and everyone presumed she was dead. She ended up in the woods where she met a young, homeless girl named Laura Kirk. Janet became extremely ill as a result of her near-death experience, but thankfully a reclusive ex-military man found her and nursed her back to health. Janet became infatuated with this man, Pierce Riley, and she, Pierce and Laura soon started life in the wilderness as a family unit.
Laurel Dillon was shot and killed on the set of a television talk show and Janet was immediately arrested for the murder. As it turns out, Jason Sheffield had killed Laurel by mistake - he had wanted to kill her gay brother, Michael Delaney. Janet was released from jail and ready to celebrate her newfound freedom with Pierce, but he had already fallen for Brooke English. Janet was furious with Brooke for what she saw as stealing her man and then stealing Laura. Janet planned to resort to her unstable ways assume Brooke's identity, but that plan never came to fruition. Trevor got wise to what she was doing and prepared to warn Brooke and alert the authorities. Before he could do so, Trevor was involved in car accident and rendered paralyzed. There was no medical reason for Trevor's paralysis and the doctors claimed that his condition was caused by a mental roadblock, so to speak. Janet used Trevor's anger for her as a way to get under his skin. One day, Trevor was so furious with Janet that he rose from his wheelchair and tried to strangle her. When he did so, he suddenly realized that he was again able to walk.
Shortly after taking on a job with the Jonathan Kinder, Janet became wise to some of the doctor's not-so-good medical practices. Janet ended up locked in an abandon house and drugged by the evil doctor. During her time in lockup, Janet found that Jonathan was also keeping her wife, Toni, prisoner. In actuality, though, Toni was really Adam Chandler's daughter, Skye. As time passed and Skye and Janet gained their freedom, Jonathan ended up victim of a fall down the staircase at Erica's home. Jonathan had kidnapped Bianca. Bianca later pushed Jonathan down the steps. Erica enlisted Janet and Skye in a plot to dispose of Jonathan's body in her backyard. What no one knew was that Jonathan wasn't dead…
By playing a videotape of a past Cutting Edge episode, Amanda learned of Janet's past evil deeds. She traced her steps to the Marick mine to look for the woman that Janet imprisoned. While looking into the well, Amanda lost her balance and became a prisoner of the well herself. Janet managed to locate Amanda, but during a rescue attempt... she was also trapped in the well. The last person you'd think would rescue Janet, Trevor, turned out to be the one who saved her life when the mine began to crumble. While Amanda was in the hospital, she saw a special WRCW report that declared Janet as her mother. For several weeks Amanda turned a cold shoulder to Janet and wanted nothing to do with her. Eventually, though, she came around and consider Janet as "family" if not her biological mother. The chasm between Trevor and Janet also disappeared as Trevor allowed Janet to be a mother to her child.
In July of 1997, Janet heard the one word that she had longed to hear for six long years---Mommy. In what seemed to her as a moment of indifference, Amanda called Janet "Mommy." When Janet started to cry, Amanda thought that she had done something wrong. Janet assured her daughter that she was crying out of happiness, not anger or sadness.
Janet started having feelings for Trevor, and Trevor the same. They started a romance and Tim did not approve at all. Tim set out to ruin the relationship. He sent Janet letters stating that he would let Amanda find out about her past, left a jack-o-lantern with an axe cut into it on her doorstep, and tried framing her for putting Tim in a meat locker. Tim finally confessed to the meat locker scheme, leaving Janet in the clear. Trevor asked Janet to marry him, Janet avoided the question many times. When finally confronted by Trevor why she could not accept his proposal, she told him that her ex-husband came back to Pine Valley and wanted to re-kindle their romance. The real reason is that Janet made a plea to Natalie to bring Tim home safe after he ran away. In return, she would not marry Trevor.
Janet was so intent on not marrying Trevor that she hired an actor, Albert Carrington, to pretend to be her husband Axel. She and Erica auditioned many actors, but Albert won the part. Albert was convincing, but slowly everyone caught on that he was not really Janet's husband. In fact, Tim and Amanda innocently contacted the real Axel by Email thinking that they were writing to the Axel that Janet had introduced them to! When the real Axel showed up in town, things got hairy. Albert and Janet, however, managed to run him off before he could leak their scheme to anyone. But Trevor got wise and convinced Albert to tell him the truth about what was going on. Janet and Axel planned to remarry so that Janet would legally unable to marry Trevor. The stage was set for an elaborate fake wedding. What Janet didn't know was that Trevor had planned a real wedding. At the Wildwind chapel, Trevor confronted Janet and she confessed that she the wedding was a scam. Janet might not have changed her mind about marrying Trevor except that Natalie appeared to her and gave her permission to go through with the wedding.
Married life proved uneventful for Trevor and Janet until the Fall of 1999. Sophie Malinowski, Janet's former cellmate at Statesville, busted out of jail and showed up in Pine Valley. Sophie demanded a large sum of money from Janet. If she didn't get it, she threatened to kill both Trevor and Amanda. Janet reverted slightly to her old ways --- talking to mirrors and thinking about the darker side of life. She paid Sophie off, but Sophie then asked for more money. The final showdown came at an old warehouse on the east side of town. There, Janet planned to kill Sophie. Sophie outsmarted her and got the upper hand of Janet. In a struggle, Janet clobbered Sophie with the crowbar that she'd planned to use on Janet. Trevor arrived and found Sophie dead on the ground. He ordered Janet to go home while he cleared everything up. Trevor planned to dispose of the evidence, but he was caught before he could do anything. Derek hauled him into the station for questioning and Trevor, knowing that Janet could spend the rest of her life in jail, took the fall for Sophie's murder. Trevor signed a confession, but slipped away before he could be cuffed and jailed. Trevor returned home and bid a final farewell to Janet and a slumbering Amanda. As the sirens wailed in the distance, Trevor vanished into the night.
Trevor kept in secret contact with Jackson Montgomery during his flight from justice. Trevor was eventually cleared off all wrong doing when Arlene got the eyewitness who'd fingered Trevor as the murderer to admit that he had a grudge against Trevor for busting him many years earlier. Trevor refused to return to Pine Valley and asked that Janet and Amanda join him and start anew in Colorado.
Janet lived happily in Colorado with Trevor for many years, but resurfaced after Amanda returned to Pine Valley. She was living in a warehouse in Pine Valley, and it wasn't long before mysterious 'accidents' began to befall anyone who was mean to Amanda. It was soon revealed to be Janet who was behind these accidents, but her biggest 'accident' came when she rigged Erica Kane's Mardi Gras ball with explosives. In the ensuing chaos, she kidnapped Babe Carey (she had already taken Little Adam) and took her to a cabin, where she revealed that Trevor was getting a 'cooling off' period (in a freezer). Babe was rescued and Janet taken to prison, but she had one last ace up her sleeve -- she knew that Dixie Cooney Martin was alive and well.
