Anna Devane
Actor History
Finola Hughes (GH: 1985-1992; AMC: 2 March 2001 to 11 September 2003
Occupation
Former Pine Valley Police Chief (accepted 22 March 2002; resigned 11 September 2003)
Former WSB agent
Former Police Chief of Port Charles
Resides At
Paris, France
Formerly a cabin on Old Orchard Road on the outskirts of Pine Valley
The Valley Inn
Formerly at Wildwind (3900 Glenview Road)
Marital Status
Single/Divorced (David Hayward)
Past Marriages
Robert Scorpio
Duke Lavery (deceased)
Robert Scorpio (divorced)
David Hayward (divorced)
Relatives
Thomas John Devane (father; deceased)
Charlotte Devane (aunt)
Alexandra Devane (twin sister)
Lindsay Devane (sister)
Gabriel Devane (half-brother)
Aidan Devane (nephew)
** Anna's mother is the cousin of Charlotte Devane's husband.
Children
Robin Scorpio (daughter; with Robert)
Unnamed Child (miscarriage; with Duke)
Leora Devane Hayward (daughter; with David)
Flings & Affairs
Edmund Grey
David Hayward (lovers)
Crimes Committed
Acted as a double agent
Dealer of stolen art work.
Aided and abetted Gabriel Devane and Rosa Santos when they were on the run from the police. [2001]
Illegally obtained hospital records. [Feb 25th, 2002]
Shot and killed Marius Wolfe while trying to stop him from shooting other people. [Jul 17th, 2002]
Kept quiet about Leo violating his parole when he left town for his honeymoon with Greenlee. [Jul 25th, 2002]
Refused to turn in David despite evidence that he provided an illegal drug to Edmund Gray counteract Maria's memory loss [Spring 2003]
Kept quiet about a datebook which incriminated David Hayward, Jackson Montgomery and Erica Kane. [Sep 11th, 2003]
Maladies and Hospitalizations
Suffered amnesia after a boat explosion.
Hospitalized after collapsing [Sep 4th, 2001]
Drugged by Wolf before Leo and Greenlee's wedding [Summer 2002]
Various problems with her pregnancy [2002-2003]
Final Words
(to David)
"I'm so sorry that I couldn't force this to work. I'm so sorry that I failed
you -- that I failed us."
Brief Character History
In 1985, the mysterious Anna Devane arrived Port Charles and befriended Holly Sutton Scorpio. What Holly didn't know was that Anna shared a past with her husband Robert Scorpio. Anna secretly obtained information about Holly's past and snooped around Robert's communication room for his security bureau, the WSB. At that time, Robert was in New York, but when he arrived he was shocked to find Anna in his house! Anna decided to stay in Port Charles and became Sean Donely's secretary. However, Anna and Sean secretly formed a partnership to fence a very valuable Aztec treasure that many Port Charles citizens were after. Robert became very suspicious of the two. Suddenly, the treasure was missing! Sean suspected Robert, Robert suspected Sean, and Anna suspected them both. Putting aside their differences, Robert and Anna teamed up to recover the treasure. Their alliance made Holly uneasy and jealous. Holly wanted to know everything she could about Anna Devane, and discovered that she and Robert were former WSB partners, a fact that was kept hidden from her. Holly demanded to know the truth from Robert. She wasn't prepared to learn that Anna was once Robert's wife! Holly was outraged and left Port Charles -- and Robert -- for London.
As the search for the treasure continued, it turned out that Grant Andrews had stolen it into order to win back his ex-wife. She and her new fiancé were to wed in a Gay-nineties celebration abroad a train in a Pullman car. Sean discovered that Grant had the treasure and agreed to help him transport it on the wedding train. Sean however was going to steal the treasure away and dupe everyone. Grant discovered Sean's deception and teamed up with Anna, Robert, and others to recover the treasure from Sean. The five followed Sean to Canada where he kidnapped a returned Holly, who learned of his plot. Tragedy then struck when Robert and Sean met up in a tramway suspended by a cable high over the mountains and fought. Anna watched from below as Robert lost his balance and fell from the car to his death! Sean took the treasure and planned to sell it to the evil Mr. Wu, but he was greeted by Wu's assistant Mr. Yang, who was really Robert! The treasure quest was over.
The police returned part of the treasure, two jade Buddhas, to Mr. Wu, who was forced to give them to the rightful owner, an old gentleman known as 'The Ancient One.' He planned to sell the Buddha's black pearls to raise enough money and buy a Port Charles cannery for oppressed people. The pearls were missing though! Mr. Wu wanted the pearls too and assumed that Anna and Robert had stolen them and he instructed his grandson Kim to get them back. Meanwhile, Anna went back to New York and found her apartment ransacked and her mother Filomena tied up! At the same time, Robert and Holly reunited and planned to move to Australia -- until he got a visitor in the form of a little girl named Robin. Anna went back to Port Charles and found out that Robert had Robin. Anna told Robert that Robin was their daughter. Robin overheard the truth and felt hurt and rejected, so she ran away with her doll. Robin met up with the Ancient One who was worried over the missing pearls, but Robin knew where they were. She put them in her doll's eyes! Robin and the Ancient One were later kidnapped, but Anna and Robert rescued them. Robert then left for Australia, and Anna was named Co-Police Chief of Port Charles with Burt Ramsey.
In 1986, the mysterious murder of Jennifer Talbot, grandmother of Terry Brock, rocked Port Charles. Shortly before her death, Jennifer left half her estate to Kevin O'Connor, and Anna arrested him for her murder. Kevin was soon let off for the crime, but as it turned out, he really was the killer!
Later that year, Anna met and fell in love with Duke Lavery. Duke had a heavy Scottish brogue and handsome looks and looked every bit as opposite the mobster he actually was! Anna thought that Duke was a nightclub owner, when in fact he was deeply involved in the planning of an elaborate money-laundering operation headed by a never seen 'Mr. Big'. Duke also fell in love with Anna and wanted out of the underworld, but he was in too deep. The arrival of Mr. Big's right hand man, Damon Grenville, meant that Duke would have to hurry and put their money laundering scheme, dubbed Operation Tumble Dry, into effect. Damon immediately put the squeeze on Duke when he ordered Duke to kill Officer Frisco Jones. When Duke didn't do it, the mob framed Felicia for robbery and forced Frisco and Felicia to leave town. The two, however, took with them a coded detailed printout about Operation Tumble Dry. Anna began to investigate their disappearance and feared that Duke had something to do with it. Duke begged Anna to trust him. Duke then fell deeper into the mob, and they ordered him to marry Anna, the police chief. Anna was touched and agreed to marry Duke, not knowing it was against his will. As it turned out, Mr. Big was Anna' co-worker Burt Ramsey!
Robert came back to Port Charles when Robin called him after overhearing Damon threaten Anna's life. Robert told Anna about his suspicions of Duke and convinced her to break their engagement. Duke really did want to marry Anna, but without the mob breathing down on them. Duke went and saw Mr. Big's boss, Angus McKay, and Angus swore that he would soon be able to marry Anna free and clear. Duke again proposed to Anna and swore he meant it. Then Damon bombed Anna's house. Duke went to the police and confessed all he knew in order to keep Anna and Robin safe. He even revealed that Burt was Mr. Big! Suddenly, Burt was shot, and Duke was arrested. Robert believed that Duke was innocent and recruited Anna and Frisco to join him in exposing Burt and bringing down the mob. Duke escaped from prison thanks to Angus McKay and was shot by Burt, who thought he was dead. With Duke allegedly dead, Burt tried to finish his money-laundering, but Duke was actually alive, and he went into a final showdown with Burt. From his injury, Duke was paralyzed, and Burt was arrested and shipped to a mental institution.
In 1987, Duke was given a light prison sentence and when he was released he was free and clear to marry Anna. However, when he took her to a city called L'Orleans for Angus McKay's funeral, Angus turned out to be Duke's father, and her intuition went into overdrive. There was a young nun named Camellia who Angus said was Duke's half-sister but about whom Anna had a bad feeling. On Anna and Duke's wedding day, Camellia and a reporter named Mark Carlin revealed that Duke had helped cover up the murder of Evan Jerome in L'Orleans. Camellia had killed Evan, but had recently discovered that Duke wasn't her brother after all. She wanted him for herself. She thought that revealing this would tear Duke and Anna apart. However, she finally realized that she could never win Duke's love and she left Port Charles. Eventually Anna broke up with Duke and started her own PI agency. Soon after, Robert returned and became her partner! He needed the work to get his mind off of Holly's death in a plane crash. Robert tried to win Anna's love back, but she chose to return to Duke and they finally married.
In early 1988, Robin was kidnapped by the insane Grant Putnam. Grant even killed Filomena and kidnapped Anna, holding her in a cage inside his cottage where she was guarded by a Doberman named Satan. Robert eventually rescued Anna who embraced him as Duke watched. Anna later discovered she was pregnant with Duke's child, but someone was closely watching her... Olivia Jerome. Olivia was a mob princess who wanted two things... to run the Jerome mob family and Duke. When Olivia realized that Duke wouldn't leave Anna, she planned to kill him in a rigged elevator which would crash. However, Anna got in the elevator instead and was hurt. Anna also lost her unborn baby. Later, shots were fired in Olivia's hotel suite, and Anna was found over Olivia's body, holding a gun! Anna was arrested and charged with attempted murder, but the real shooter was Olivia's henchmen Dino. Olivia was shipped to a mental institution after being found guilty of causing the death of Anna's unborn baby.
In 1989, Anna's marriage slowly crumbled after Duke testified against the mob. Fearing that Anna and Robin were in danger, Duke faked his death in an explosion and entered the Witness Protection Program. Anna was crushed.
In 1990, Duke returned to Port Charles with a new face and new name, Jonathan Paget, and Anna had no idea that he was really Duke. Duke wanted to get back with Anna, but he learned that mobster Julian Jerome was after him. Julian shot and killed a escaped Olivia, who told Anna that Jonathan was really Duke before she died. Before Anna and Duke could be reunited however, Duke was killed by Julian and died in Anna's arms. Robert, who was engaged to someone else, delayed his wedding so that he could comfort Anna. Meanwhile, Robin found a crystal on Spoon Island which contained an alien visitor named Casey. Anna helped Casey go back to his planet of Lumina, but in process came face to face with Cesar Faison, an old enemy. Cesar kidnapped Anna, Robin and Casey, but he was caught and left town. Casey went to Lumina.
In 1991, Robin played matchmaker for Anna and Robert by sending them faux valentines. Anna and Robert fell back in love. Suddenly, Robert was almost murdered! Everyone thought it was his brother Mac who tried to kill him. When Robert was released from GH he and Anna made love. Robert proposed to Anna, and they were married in Lila Quartermaine's Shakespearean Garden. On their honeymoon in the Bahamas, Anna discovered that Edward Quartermaine was alive and living as a beach bum! Anna took Edward back to Port Charles and reunited him with his family.
In 1992, Anna was shocked to learn that Holly was alive. Anna feared that Holly would want Robert back, but she didn't and left the couple alone. Then, tragedy again struck. Faison returned to town and wanted Anna and Robin for himself. Faison's mother, Nanny McTavish, kidnapped Robin, but she was discovered and helped Robert get Faison. Faison felt betrayed by his mother and killed her! He then kidnapped Anna and took her to a boat in South America. Robert followed him to save his wife but it was a trap! Robert and Anna were killed in a boat explosion which Faison planned and used to fake his own death. Robin was sent to live with her Uncle Mac.
Anna was learned to be alive in March 2001. Months earlier, Alex, Anna's twin sister, had been summoned to a small cabin in Canada. There, a man named Bart had been tending to Anna after he found her near death many years before. Alex was called in after Anna started developing seizures. She also suffered memory loss. Anna's condition grew quite serious, but Bart refused taking Anna to a hospital for fear that armed thugs would kill her. Anna was taken to Pine Valley where Alex cared for her in the turret at Wildwind. Eventually, Alex, her husband, Dimitri, and Dimitri's brother, Edmund, were able to convince Bart to allow Anna to go into the hospital under an assumed name -- Alex's! There, Anna was treated and eventually the seizures subsided. Anna was released to Alex's watchful eye. During the care, Anna's guardian, Bart, was found dead on the floor of the turret. The official cause of his death was listed as a massive coronary, but there remained some speculation that someone murdered him. Anna remained hidden, but she eventually sneaked into town. There, she ran into Ryan Lavery. While Ryan was with the woman whom he assumed to be Alex, his wife, Gillian, called and said that she too was with Alex. Ryan took Anna back to Wildwind where Alex and Dmitri told him the truth about Alex and Anna.
Anna hovered in Pine Valley for sometime before her spy skills inspired her to get involved in the search for Proteus, a drug lord. Anna grew close to David Hayward because it was widely believed that he could be Proteus. However, Anna developed true feelings for the doctor and they married. Anna realized that as David's wife, she would never have to testify against David if he was ever brought up on charges for some of his unapproved medical treatments. Existing charges against David were dropped, and with the help of federal agent Chris Stamp, Anna was appointed Pine Valley's chief of police. Unfortunately for her, David and his wacky family were constantly creating conflict. A man looking for Vanessa's secret Proteus money drugged Anna, and though she was drugged she ran after him during Leo and Greenlee's wedding, firing her gun at him. She hit her target, but DA Jackson Montgomery was very disturbed that she would shoot her weapon while incoherent and groggy. Jackson pushed for her to be stripped of her badge. She successfully overcame this battle, but she soon discovered David had been involved in keeping Maria Santos Grey from her family for years. Anna was horrified and pushed David away, but he wouldn't let her be free of him quite that easily. They did legally divorce, and for a time were emotionally estranged.
David and Anna had been trying for a baby, and Anna realized that, at the worst possible time, she was pregnant. She was unable to keep the news from David, and he warned her he would not be separated from his child. The stress of carrying a new life and investigating her husband's ever-growing list of crimes caused her risk losing her baby. Anna leaned on Tad and Jackson around this time, but she realized that she had been involved with dark men in the past, and she was deeply in love with David. Ignoring the cries of those around her, Anna reconciled with David and stood by him through much legal scrutiny and as he pled guilty to various crimes so she wouldn't lose her badge. Aside from this, David and Anna were blissfully happy, the happiest they had ever been in their marriage, and anticipated the birth of their child. Unfortunately, their happiness was not to last.
One day in January 2003, Anna was visiting David at the run-down free clinic where he was working off his probation. A young gang member, in desperation, took Anna hostage and threatened to kill her by slashing her neck with scissors if he didn't get drugs. Anna herself talked him out of the situation, but while she and David were checking to see if she was all right, she realized the baby wasn't moving. Anna was terrified. Upon examination, Anna's doctor found a problem with the baby's heart. David told Anna he knew the perfect doctor in Zurich who could perform in utero surgery. Knowing David would have to stay stateside due to his probation, Anna refused to go, but David called Robin, who agreed to stay with Anna in Switzerland. On sad terms, Anna and David kissed goodbye, and she left for the remainder of her pregnancy.
Anna returned to America, unable to have the surgery without David there. Anna told him that she had arranged for the same pediatric heart surgeon to perform the operation in Pine Valley. Just before the operation was to begin, the surgeon suffered a stroke, leaving the scalpel in David's capable but nervous hands. David performed the surgery successfully, and Anna recovered for a short time until the birth of the baby.
Anna and David became the parents of little Leora, named after David's late brother Leo. The baby seemed perfect in spite of her heart condition. The doctors encouraged the use of a pacemaker over which Anna and David argued bitterly. Anna wanted to follow the advice of the doctors, while David insisted that he himself was a doctor -- a cardiologist, no less -- and felt that their daughter would have a better chance at a healthy, normal life if they operated when she was stronger. Anna decided to agree with David for the time being. However, as the baby grew weaker in the months after her birth, Anna signed the consent forms for Leora's surgery against David's wishes. When he threatened to take her to court, she reminded him that she had plenty of legal "dirt" on him, and that she wouldn't hesitate to throw him into jail if he interfered with the welfare of their daughter.
Although Joe Martin and the other doctors did their best, Leora did not survive surgery. Anna and David were devastated. They blamed both themselves and each other for her death. After a period of weeks they reconciled, but nothing could take away the ache caused by her absence.
In the summer of 2003, Bianca Montgomery was raped by Michael Cambias. When she finally revealed his crime, Anna arrested Michael before gathering serious evidence. Due to this and other mitigating factors, Michael was acquitted of all charges. Anna was demoralized by the uselessness of her actions. Michael vanished soon after the hearing, and Anna found a notebook which may have incriminated David, Erica Kane, and her friend Jackson Montgomery in Michael's disappearance. Rather than come forward with this knowledge, Anna resigned from the police force and decided to leave town. David pleaded with her to stay, but she convinced him that they were both so lost over Leora's death, and that this split would help them finally move on with their lives. They shared a final, mournful hug before Anna left to visit with Robin in Paris.
