Sami Brady
Actor History
Ronit Arnoff (1984)
Lauren Ann Bundy (1985)
Jessica Davis (1985 to 1986)
Tiffany Nicole Palma (1986)
Ashleigh Blair Sterling (1986 to 1990)
Christina Wagoner (1990 to 1992)
Alison Sweeney (1992 to present)
Dan Wells (February 2005 to August 2005) [as Stan]
Stephanie Bader (1997; flashbacks; voiceover only)
Lifeline
Originally born on 16 October 1984.
In 1993, birthdate changed to 16 October 1977.
Other Names
Samantha Gene Brady (full name)
Stan (male persona)
Names Sakes
Named after her maternal aunt Samantha Evans (Marlena's twin sister) and Eugene Bradford (Roman and Marlena's close friend)
Occupation
Former partner with E.J. Wells in Mythic
Former Executive Assistant for Austin Reed and Company
Former Receptionist / Filer at Basic Black
Former Receptionist at Salem University Hospital
Former Director of Imaging at Titan Publishing
Resides At
DiMera Mansion
Marital Status
Single
Past Marriages
Austin Reed (annulled)
Brandon Walker (annulled)
Lucas Roberts (annulled)
E.J. Wells (Married: November 9th, 2007; Annulled: May 27th, 2008)
Relatives
Roman Brady (father)
Marlena Evans (mother)
Eric Brady (brother; twin)
Carrie Brady (paternal half-sister)
Rex Brady (paternal half-brother)
Cassie Brady (paternal half-sister)
Donald Jeremiah Craig Jr. (maternal half-brother; deceased)
Isabella Black (maternal half-sister/ paternal second cousin)
Shawn Brady (paternal grandfather; deceased)
Caroline Brady (paternal grandmother)
Frank Evans (maternal grandfather)
Martha Evans (maternal grandmother)
Patrick Aloysius Brady (paternal great-great-grandfather)
Nora Molly Brady (paternal great-great-grandmother)
Kimberly Brady (paternal aunt)
Kayla Brady (paternal aunt)
Samantha Evans (paternal aunt; deceased)
Frankie Brady (paternal uncle; via adoption)
Max Brady (paternal uncle; via adoption)
Bo Brady (paternal half-uncle)
Andrew Donovan IV (paternal cousin)
Jeannie Donovan (paternal cousin)
Stephanie Johnson (paternal cousin)
Joey Johnson (paternal cousin)
Shawn-Douglas Brady (paternal half-cousin)
Chelsea Brady (paternal half-cousin)
Zack Brady (paternal half-cousin; deceased)
Ciara Brady (paternal half-cousin)
Claire Brady (maternal half-niece / paternal first half-cousin once removed)
Eric Brady (paternal great-uncle)
Colleen Brady (paternal great-aunt; deceased)
Molly Brady (paternal great-aunt)
Robert Evans (maternal great-uncle; deceased)
Colin Murphy (paternal first cousin once removed; deceased)
Trista Evans (maternal first cousin once removed; deceased)
John Black (paternal first cousin once removed)
Brady Black (paternal second cousin)
Children
Will Roberts (son; with Lucas)
John Roman DiMera (son; with E.J.)
Alice Caroline Horton (daughter; with Lucas)
Flings & Affairs
Alan Harris (he raped her)
Lucas Roberts (one-night stand; later engaged)
Austin Reed (she raped him; later engaged)
Franco Kelly (formerly engaged)
Brandon Walker (lived together)
E.J. Wells (kissed; he raped her; lovers)
Crimes Committed
Kidnapped her baby sister Belle
Changed paternity test results on Belle.
Drugged and raped Austin.
Blackmailed Kate.
Stole Austin's car (twice).
Shot Alan Harris and castrated him.
Lied about paternity of Will.
Lied about Lucas abusing Will.
Charged, convicted, sentenced for murder of fiance Franco Kelly (lethal injection).
Pulled a gun on Kate and Lucas to get them to tell the truth about killing Franco.
Fleeing the police with ex-husband Austin.
Blackmailed Victor into transfering Austin to Hawaii.
Seduced a mailman in order to steal the package with the tape (mail fraud).
Broke into Victor's desk to get the tape of her confession.
Tampered with the results of Lexie's paternity test.
Blackmailed Lexie into telling Carrie that any children she had with Austin would have genetic defects.
Various other lies and misdeeds.
Miscellaneous
Blood type is AB (Rh factor unknown). [14 February 2001]
Brief Character History
In 1992 Sami Brady reappeared in Salem as a teenager. (Even though she was born in 1984). She kept having run-ins with a good looking young man and became smitten. A few weeks later she learned that that young man was none other than her sister Carrie's boyfriend.
Soon Sami became friends with Lucas Roberts who was also new to town. Sami convinced Lucas to talk her to the Spring Fling to make Austin jealous. Lucas then talked Sami into going on a crash diet to make Austin notice her so he could have Carrie all to himself. Sami became bulimic and emotional distraught. She confronted her mother Marlena about her affair with John black after Sami spotted the two of them in the heat of passion. Sami pried into the hospital computer and learned that John was the father of her baby sister Belle.
Sami then kidnapped Belle and planned to put her up for adoption so her dad would not have a constant reminder of her mother's affair. Although Roman had no clue that Belle was not his. John found the baby and reunited her with her mother.
A while later Sami began dating Alan who raped her. Sami tested negative for both HIV and pregnancy. When she testified against Alan at the trial she looked like a liar and the charges against Alan were dropped. When Alan attacked Sami at gunpoint, she got hold of the weapon and shot him in the groin, castrating him. She then turned to Lucas for comfort and they made love. Through it all though, Sami still was in love with Austin and soon gave him the date-rape drug (which she got from Lynn Burke) so he would make love to her. When he realized what had happened between them he told her it would never happen again and Sami left town.
She came back to town a bit later to interrupt her sisters wedding to Austin and announced she was pregnant with the grooms child. Little Will was soon born. Austin did all that was possible to help Sami both emotionally and financially while Sami did all she could to keep Austin and Carrie apart. All her schemes came to a head when Kate, Austin's mother, discovered all she had done to keep Austin away from Carrie. After the fallout, baby Will was kidnapped and sold on the black market in France. They found the baby but Austin and Sami were forced to get married in order to get the little guy back.
Austin made it clear from the beginning that the marriage would be annulled once they got back to Salem. However Sami dodged the summons for the annulment and did her best to keep Austin as her husband. She stole Austin's car so he could not go on a romantic weekend with Carrie and the car went out of control. She tried to warn Austin who wouldn't listen. Austin then ran Sami over with the car. Sami spent many weeks in ICU and last rites were performed. However she pulled through but is paralyzed and has amnesia. To keep her from relapsing Austin is pretending to be a loving husband in hopes that his wife will soon remember and they can proceed with the annulment.
Sami got away with playing the amnesia for quite awhile. She continued to oppose the romance between John and Marlena for a LONG while. Roman returned, and try as she might, she could not lie for very long. The return of brother Eric didn't help any either because he sensed when she lied. She manipulated Austin to marry her again in a church, until Carrie, Eric and Mike found out her secret... that Lucas was actually her child's father. Carrie married Austin that day.
Next, Sami was romanced by Franco Kelly so he could get his green card. He personally couldn't stand her. During this time, she also accused Lucas of child abuse, and because of this, Lucas was driven to drinking. Roman didn't like him at all, and Marlena was very surprised when they announced their engagement July 4, 1998. Franco pursued a stripper Candi while still engaged to Sami. Austin caught Franco making love to Candi in a sleazy motel, and told Sami a few minutes before her wedding to him.
Her words when going to confront Franco? " I'm going to kill the bastard! " ( Famous last words.) Franco was found dead in the Kiriakis living room, and Sami held the murder weapon... the gun Franco had given her to protect herself. ( Lucas actually killed him. ) Sami was convicted and sentenced to the lethal injection.
Austin took Sami and Will out of Salem, and went on the run from the law.
Sami was cleared of the charges and saved at the very last minute. While she didn't stop scheming, she did start enjoying her relationship with Austin. Things went back and forth, but finally she and Austin were engaged to be married, and began planning their future together, until Austin discovered that she had lied about Lucas hitting Will all those years ago. Austin left town, and Sami.
After Austin left, Sami was lost. She didn't know what to do with her life, and was obsessed with punishing Kate and Lucas. Luckily, Brandon Walker's love kept her from going overboard, but it wasn't able to keep her from scheming. When she discovered that Brandon and Lexie had slept together, she used the hospital computers to access the results of the paternity tests to make it look like Abe was the father. When Brandon found out what she had done, he walked away from her only hours after they were married.
Sami went to the DiMera mansion to confront Tony when she realized he was involved in her exposure, and in the ensuing argument, Tony pushed Sami away from him and she went through the glass doors. She nearly died, which prompted an emotional reaction from Lucas, and caused Sami to wonder what could have been if there hadn't been all the hatred and bitterness.
Sami had just recovered from her wounds when a mysterious rash of killings began in town. After Celeste had a vision that John would kill her mother, Sami begged her father Roman to please help her save her mother (at the same time, she was trying to get them back together, wanting her life to be as it was before John and her mother conceived Belle). Roman was unsuccessful in convincing Marlena to look out for herself. He decided to move on once and for all and marry Kate. Sami blasted her father, making sure he knew that she thought he was crazy for marrying Kate, and that she would never accept it. Marlena had managed to convince her that she needed to mend fences, just as a bloody Kate staggered out of the kitchen and announced that Roman was dead.
After Roman's death, Sami hit rock bottom. She ended up finding comfort with Lucas, and despite all their years of animosity, the two began getting closer. They finally got engaged to be married, despite Kate's interference. Hours before they were to be married, Sami woke up in bed with Brandon (with no memory of how she got there), and Lucas called off the wedding. At Sami's lowest point, though, she was contacted by a mysterious person who offered her the chance to get back at all of her enemies. For weeks, Sami dressed as 'Stan', and secretly tortured many of Salem's citizens. She ended up caught in the middle of the war overseas and when Philip Kiriakis was kidnapped, returned to battle and lost his leg, many of Salem's citizens blamed 'Stan'. Even though Nicole knew her secret, Sami thought she was safe, and she and Nicole teamed up to prove Kate drugged her (which they managed to do) and to break up Brady and Chloe (which didn't work out). Sami and Lucas got back together after Sami exposed Kate, but broke up after Kate exposed Sami as Stan.
Luckily for Sami, just as she was about to be arrested for treason, Austin showed up and made the police see that since she wasn't in the country and Tony DiMera (who turned out to be the mastermind of the Stan plot) was never officially declared an enemy of the United States, she could not be held liable. Lucas turned his back on Sami, but Austin gave her a job to get back on her feet. Austin and Sami slowly began moving towards a relationship together, and Sami, desperate to keep Carrie and Lucas apart, blackmailed Lexie into telling Carrie that she and Austin shared a genetic defect that would affect any children that they had. So Carrie chose to pursue a relationship with Lucas, and was thrilled when she became pregnant. They wed, and Sami and Austin began planning their own future.
Not long after Carrie married Lucas, they all learned that Carrie has never been pregnant after all, and never would be. Sami and Austin continued with their plans to marry, but as Sami was about to say her vows, she received a call from someone who threatened to destroy her if she didn't call off the nuptials. She fled the Church, finding comfort in the arms of her new friend, E.J. Wells. She was also ordered to hand custody of Will over to Lucas, and when Will disappeared, a mysterious voice intimated that Will had been kidnapped. While Will was missing, Sami and Lucas caught Austin and Carrie together, and Lucas announced their marriage was over. Will came back, safe and sound, having run away to Chicago. Lucas announced that he would move into Sami's apartment with her and Will because Will needed more constant parenting.
Sami began to focus on her friendship with newcomer E.J. Wells, who had become a valuable confidant after her relationship with Austin had ended. At the same time, she and Lucas began to grow closer. After a number of pseudo-threatening confrontations with E.J., during one of which she was certain that he was going to rape her, Sami severed her ties with E.J., and she and Lucas began working their way back to a future together. Unfortunately, E.J. had become determined to have Sami bear his child, and he got his chance when Lucas was trapped under beams on what was to have been a romantic trip with Sami. He forced Sami to sleep with him, telling her that if she didn't, he was going to let Lucas die. Sami submitted to his advances in order to save Lucas, but when she learned she was pregnant a few months later, she was devastated to realise that her pregnancy could be a result of her rape, and not her relationship with Lucas. Lucas, who knew nothing of what happened with E.J., was thrilled to learn of her pregnancy, and they began planning their wedding, but once E.J. realised he could also be the father, he demanded an ultrasound.
Sami tried to fend him off with fake ultrasound results, but that didn't work once he learned the truth. She then decided to pretend that she wanted a future with E.J., and Celeste convinced her that the only way to save herself, Lucas and her child from E.J. was to kill him. Sami tried to kill EJ by setting his "unconscious" body on fire, but was unable to go through with the act. No matter how much she hated EJ, she couldn't bring herself to kill him.
EJ continued to demand that Sami have an additional paternity test, even after her twins were born. After many false tests, Sami learned that her twins had two different fathers. EJ was Johnny's father and Lucas was Ali's father. But, the split paternity was the least of her problems. The Brady/DiMera feud had reached new heights of terror when Andre kidnapped and tied a bomb to Roman and then ordred the hit and run "death" of John Black. Stefano told Sami that the only way to stop the feud is if she agreed to marry EJ. Desperate to save her family, Sami agreed. Sami and Lucas divorced and Sami married EJ at St Luke's church in Salem. Angered by her decision, Lucas showed up at the church and shot EJ in the back. Lucas plead guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Before he turned himself in, Lucas agreed to let Will go live with Carrie and Austin in Switzerland in hopes that Will would be safe from any more DiMera retaliation.
While Lucas was in jail, Sami and EJ grew close. In hopes to win favor with Sami, EJ turned his back on his father and told Sami and Marlena that John was alive and being held captive in Stefano's basement. The police arrested Stefano and send Sami and EJ to a safe house while Stefano awaited trial. EJ took every opportunity to get closer to Sami. He helped her raise the twins. He comforted her at her grandfather's funeral. He paid off a customs official to put his Visa in question so that Sami had to stay married to EJ. Sami and EJ moved into the DiMera mansion together to prove that they were indeed a legitimate couple with strong family ties. EJ even paid Nicole Walker to help make Sami jealous. All of his efforts paid off. Sami eventually admitted her feelings for EJ, discussed their tumultous past, looked to each other for comfort, and eventually, Sami and EJ made love.
Their love affair was short lived as Lucas was released from prison the very night that Sami and EJ slept together. Lucas walked in on them and was furious. Sami immediatley found herself torn between two men. She said that she wanted to be with Lucas, but couldn't stand the idea of EJ moving on with anyone else. But, Sami's waifering put her in the position of loosing both men. Unable to make a clean break from either man, Lucas and EJ started looking for female companionship elsewhere- EJ with Nicole and Lucas with Chloe.
