Marlena Evans
Actor History
Deidre Hall (1976 to 1987; 1991 to present)
Occupation
Psychiatrist
Salem Stalker (2003-2004)
Resides At
The Penthouse
Marital Status
Married/John Black (Married: December 7th, 2006)
Past Marriages
Don Craig Sr. (invalid; one son)
Roman Brady (invalid; two children)
Eugene Bradford (invalid)
John Black (invalid)
John Black (invalid)
Alex North (dissolved by his death)
Relatives
Frank Evans (father)
Martha Evans (mother)
Samantha Evans (sister; twin; deceased)
Robert Evans (uncle; deceased)
Trista Evans (cousin; deceased)
Children
Unnamed Child (with Alex; 1970s; presumed deceased) (referenced 11/15/05)
Donald Jeremiah Craig Jr. (son; deceased)
Eric Brady (son; twin)
Samantha Brady (daughter; twin)
Belle Black (daughter)
Unnamed Child (with Roman; 2005; miscarriage)
Will Roberts (grandson)
John Roman Roberts (grandson)
Alice Caroline Horton (granddaughter)
Claire Kiriakis (granddaughter)
Flings & Affairs
Richard Cates (dated)
Eugene Bradford (mostly pretend)
John Black (adulterous)
Crimes Committed
Shot Stefano DiMera.
Committed adultery with John Black.
Lit the community Christmas tree on fire. (While possessed.)
Chained Kristen to a church alter and lit the church on fire. (While possessed.)
Drugged by Tony to believe she killed the Salem Stalker victims.
Brief Character History
Dr. Marlena Evans made her debut as one of Mickey's psychiatrists at Bayview Sanitarium. Soon after her appearance she was drugged and admitted to Bayview while her twin sister impersonated her. She managed to escape and called Don to pick her up but she was caught and Samantha (impersonating Marlena) ordered shock treatments to keep her sister docile. After awhile Don started suspecting the switch and soon Marlena was released and Samantha arrested. Late that year (1977) Don announced his plans to marry Marlena. During this time Marlena flew to where Samantha was being held and they shared a reconciliation.
During the her wedding to Don, Marlena left him at the alter to try to keep a girl from jumping off the roof. The girl was Don's daughter and Don fell off the roof in his effort to save her. Don and Marlena eventually wed the following year. She became pregnant later that year. She gave bith prematurely to a two pound ten ounce baby boy. Three months later the baby died of SIDS. Marlena and Don seperated when they could not come to terms with their baby's death.
In 1981 Marlena began being threatened and a young woman was found strangled. Soon a second woman was found strangled and the killer wrote Marlena a note saying it was her fault. Then a doll with a broken neck hung by a silk scarf from her curtain rod in her apartment. Police officer Roman Brady began working on the case. More killings followed. Roman ended up shooting the strangler after he had kidnapped Marlena and strangled Samantha.
Roman and Marlena went to Mazatlan but Marlena shied away from any romance believing that the murders were her fault. Roman asked Marlena to wait for him while he cleared up the business of declaring his first wife dead so he could be legally free to marry her. Anna Brady ended up being alive and came to Salem for a divorce from Roman. Marlena was then able to marry Roman, however while Roman went undercover, Marlena and Don hatched a plan where Don, in disguise as Roman, went with Marlena on the honeymoon so that they could pretend that Roman was there. In 1984 Marlena found she was again pregnant. She gave birth to twins Eric and Samantha Brady. Roman was "killed" by Stefano and then Stefano went after Marlena. Marlena then shot Stefano, who fell from a catwalk and was presumed dead. Marlena was charged with Stefano's death but ultimately a mistrial was declared.
Marlena then dated Richard Cates, who was the Salem Police Chief and an old friend of Roman's. It turned out that he was crooked though. In the beginning of 1986 Marlena met the John Black who she later determined was her husband Roman with extensive plastic surgery. After a prolonged stay in the hospital she and "Roman" renewed their wedding vows. Late that year a bomb inside the Brady house "killed" Marlena. Marlena wasn't actually killed, she was abducted and sent to a remote island. Roman followed and watched in horror as the plane carrying Marlena exploded in mid-air.
Five years later the presumed dead Marlena returned to Salem. She and Roman then went to find her captors and they found the real Roman -- the man she had been living with for many years turned out to be John Black. Roman and Marlena were reunited.
Marlena began counseling Roger Lombard who was driving drunk and hit her sister-in-law Kimberly. Roger's wife Stella became insanely jealous of Marlena and believed the two were having an affair. Stella kidnapped Marlena and threw her into the boiler pit of an old warehouse that was scheduled for demolishen. Stella had a change of heart and called the police to let them know of Marlena's whereabouts when Stella was killed. John however followed the few clues that Stella had given and reached Marlena just as the warehouse exploded. The two were trapped inside until their friend Abe Carver rescued them. However their ordeal rekindled feelings for each other.
When Marlena vowed to stay with Roman, John planned to leave town. Marlena went to his plane to say good-bye but the two fell into a passionate embrace and made love. Their affair was discovered by Marlena's daughter Sami. Marlena learned she was pregnant but didn't know who the father was and it was revealed at baby Belle's baptism that John, not Roman, was indeed the father.
When Marlena went to Louisiana to search for John she was captured by Stefano and was forced to call Roman and tell him she was with John, giving their reconciliation the final blow. After they escaped, Stefano followed them to Salem and began using mind altering drugs on Marlena. Marlena did not seem her old self anymore and soon it was revealed that she was the Desecrator and was possessed by the Devil. John Black, who had been a priest before he came to Salem, performed an exorcism to save Marlena's soul. It seemed at first that Marlena would not survive but John and God pulled her through.
After her divorce from Roman, Marlena decided to pursue her feelings for John only to be kept apart from him by Kristen. Stefano managed to kidnap Marlena a couple more times but always John rescued her. Marlena kept her faith in John even as he stood trial and was sentenced to executed for Tony's murder. John wrote Marlena a letter confessing his love for her which Kristen found and hid. After John was recanted of his crime, Marlena found the letter but promised Kristen she wouldn't tell John of Kristen's doings to keep them apart due to the delicate nature of Kristens pregnancy. Though the pregnancy is over now, was in fact over within a few months, Kristen faked her way through the remainder of the pregnancy and is now doing all that is possible to keep Marlena from John.
Marlena got engaged to John Black the night of his wedding to Kristen. That night at the Penthouse, they made love for the first time in 4 years and he asked her to marry him. They planned their wedding, only to have Kristen bring her presumed dead ex-husband Roman to the church. The wedding never happened, and they found out that Roman had an incurable viral disease from the nuclear war he had fought for the ISA.
Feeling guilty, Marlena devoted her time to him, all the while, Roman didn't know that she was engaged to John. Kristen had told him that John and her were married and Marlena still loved him. She couldn't break a dying man's heart. But, Stefano presented a miracle! He knew where they could find the cure in the jungle. John, Hope, Kristen and Stefano went to the jungle, while she cared and spent a lot of time with Roman. She began to care for him again, much to the dismay of John, who interrupted their wedding with the cure. Roman found out about John and Marlena and had his blood pressure rise to a skyrocketing number. He was hospitalized. John and Marlena eventually found themselves back together.
Marlena was very dismayed at the fact that John had a friendship with Greta, whom she thought might be a fraud. She stood by her man while he pursued his past, and even hypnotized him a few times. She also played watchdog to her "wayward" stepdaughter Carrie, who had feelings for Mike. She didn't want her to have an affair with Mike, even though Austin practically abandoned her. And also, she worried about her daughter, grandson, and son-in-law who were hiding from the police, and was devastated when Sami was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
Sami escaped death and was then free, Marlena married her true love John and they were happy for a brief time. John was taken control of by evil Gina and he slept with evil Gina several times while on his honeymoon with Marlena. Marlena rescued John from the ocean and he has no memory of evil Gina or what he did. Her happiness at finding John would be short lived as evil Gina was determined to have him for her own, and then there was the real Princess Gina, she wanted him too.
With Princess Gina dead and out of the way, it looked like the only problem that John and Marlena would have was that John Thomas Brady, Hope's son, was also John's son as well! But that wasn't the only problem in store for them when John's son Brady came home from university. He had a chip on his shoulder a mile wide because Marlena had always prefered her biological daughter, Belle, to him, and her obsession with proving he was demon spawn indirectly resulted in a horrific accident for her own daughter, and Brady's paralysis.
Everything was back on track with John and Marlena when they discovered first that Tony DiMera was John's half-brother, and then, that while she was held prisoner by Stefano all those years ago, she gave birth to twins Cassie and Rex, fathered by Tony. It wasn't long before Rex figured out that his biological parents were actually Roman and Kate, but Marlena still believes they are hers. She is starting to suspect the truth, but as she has made clear to Rex, she knows she gave birth to them, and regardless of biology, she considers them her children.
Marlena was just recovering from the shock of learning that Rex and Cassie weren't her children when Cassie was murdered. Not only that, but her daughter Sami kept insisting that Marlena was in danger from John, and John made no secret of his dislike and disgust toward not only Sami but also Rex. Despite her burgeoning feeligns for her former husband Roman, Marlena went to Roman and Kate's wedding ceremony, and was devastated when Kate found Roman's dead body. She soon asked John to move out. When Tony was in the hospital recovering from his tiger wounds he looked up to his killer's face...and saw Marlena!
Marlena was eventually revealed to have been a pawn of Tony's and not truly the killer, but before that could happen Marlena was gunned down on the police station roof and presumed dead. She woke up on a mysterious island, where all the people from Salem that she had killed were living. They tried to escape, but neither Marlena nor Roman were successful. Tony held them captive in a European castle for many months while forcing them to watch John and Kate get closer via closed circuit television. The two eventually made love, but were rescued soon after, and tried to return to their lives in Salem.
After returning to Salem, Marlena discovered she was pregnant, and the timing made it impossible to be John's baby. Unfortunately, Marlena fell down the stairs one day while listening to John and Roman argue about her and lost the baby. She awoke with a condition known as hysterical amnesia. Lexie called in the world's top specialist on amnesia, Dr. Alex North, who came to town to try to help Marlena regain her memory. It wasn't long before Alex revealed that he had a connection to Marlena that no one ever suspected -- he was her long-lost and presumed dead first husband! This meant that all of her subsequent marriages were invalid, as she and Alex had never divorced. She was torn between John and Alex, but ultimately chose to honor her commitments to her first husband.
John eventually proved that Alex was a fraud, and he fell over a cliff to his death. While researching the DiMeras in Italy, John and Marlena were married in a beautiful ceremony, but didn't have long to enjoy themselves -- John was shot by E.J. Wells, and fell into a coma.
