Victoria Lord Davidson
Actor History
Gillian Spencer (1968 to 1971)
Joanne Dorian (1971)
Erika Slezak (1971 to present)
Christine Jones (1981; temporary replacement)
Judith Barcroft (1986; temporary replacement)
Occasional appearances by other actress during the 1970s for Slezak's time off.
Lifeline
Died and went to heaven in a car accident
Occupation
Dean of Llanview University (former)
Publisher/Owner of The Banner
Boardmember at Llanview Hospital
Mayor of Llanview (former)
Resides At
Llanfair (1177 Regency Drive)
Marital Status
Single
Past Marriages
Joe Riley (1969)
Steve Burke (1972)
Joe Riley (1974)
Clint Buchanan (1982)
Clint Buchanan (1986)
Sloan Carpenter (1994)
Ben Davidson (2000 until his death in 2004)
Relatives
Victor Lord (father; deceased)
Eugenia Randolph (mother; deceased)
Tony Lord (half-brother) (cousin)
Tina Clayton Lord (half-sister)
Todd Manning (half-brother)
Meredith Lord (half-sister; deceased)
Brian Kendall (half-nephew; deceased)
C.J. Roberts (half-nephew)
Sarah Roberts (half-niece)
Starr Manning (half-niece)
Jack Cramer Manning (half-nephew)
Thomas John McBain (half-nephew)
Daniel Wolek (half-nephew)
Powell Lord Sr. (uncle; deceased)
Gwendolyn Lord (aunt; deceased)
Dorothy Randolph (aunt; deceased)
Powell Lord II (cousin; deceased)
Richard Abbott (cousin)
Powell Lord III (first cousin once removed)
Children
Megan Gordon (daughter; with Roger; born 1963; died 1992)
Kevin Lord Riley Buchanan Sr. (son; with Joe; born 1976; adopted by Clint)
Joseph Francis Riley Buchanan (son; with Joe; born 1980; adopted by Clint)
Jessica Buchanan (daughter; with Mitch; born 1986; adopted by Clint)
Natalie Buchanan (daughter; with Clint; born 1986)
Demerest Buchanan (grandson; deceased)
Kevin Riley Buchanan Jr. (grandson; deceased)
Megan Victoria Buchanan (granddaughter; deceased)
Brennan Buchanan (granddaughter)
Zane Buchanan (great-grandson)
Flings & Affairs
Clint Buchanan
Crimes Committed
Originally believed to have murdered her father, Victor Lord.
Killed Johnny Dee in self-defense.
Kidnapped Dorian and held her prisoner in the secret room at Llanfair.
Various crimes against Ben and Natalie, including pushing Ben out a window (as Niki, April - August 2002).
Alternate Personalities
Tommy (angry teenage boy)
Jean (control freak)
Princess (Young girl)
Tori (freer, more evil version of Viki, tried to kill Victor)
Victor Lord
Niki Smith
Maladies & Hospitalizations
Diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder
Sexually assaulted by Mitch Laurence
Suffered memory loss
Developed a brain aneurysm
Diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy.
Suffered a mild heart attack
Received a heart transplant
Miscellaneous Information
Blood type is AB+ (revealed May 26th, 2004).
Brief Character History
Viki is one of the two original characters still on the show. She started life with a domineering father, who actually wanted a son. She spent her formative years trying to please him and be everything he ever wanted. Then she became involved with Joe Riley, defying her father's wishes. Joe was from the wrong side of town, but he was an ace reporter. Shortly after they were married, Joe went on assignment to California and was reported killed in an accident. Enter Steve Burke, a man her father approved of and encouraged her to marry. After the wedding, who should show up but Joe Riley, complete with amnesia. After many twists and turns, they were remarried and lived quite happily until his death from brain cancer. Joe knew he was dying and brought in a man to help run the Banner, and also to help console his wife after he was gone. It worked.
Clint Buchanan was everything Viki needed. He has been a rock through her bad times. They were divorced and remarried, and were pretty happy for many years until Clint and she drifted apart. They had many adventures together; Tina, the Old West, Eterna, her finding a daughter (Megan) she didn't know she had, but after many years she and Clint found that they started to disagree more than they agreed. They divorced when she became involved with Sloan Carpenter and the research he was doing for his book on Victor Lord.
She was determined to prove that Dorian had killed her father. Dorian was convicted and incarcerated, but eventually won her way free. Dorian knew that Victor had sexually abused Viki, and informed her of it eventually. Viki, who had a running split personality over the years (Nikki Smith), cracked into many more personalities. When she finally realized that she had been the one to kill her father, she accepted her punishment and started therapy. She is still dealing with the fallout from these issues. Viki has actually been a very stable and moral character. She has been a rock to her family and friends, always willing to give and forgive. She has been the mayor of Llanview, suffered a stroke, been kidnapped several times, murdered Johnny Dee to protect her sister Tina, and through it all her innate goodness has shown through. Everybody loves Viki except her stepmother Dorian.
Viki finally decided that she wanted to marry Clint again, but it was too late, he had just married Lindsay Rappaport. Viki then kept busy trying to help her brother Todd, whom she thought was sexually abused as a child and has apparently developed DID and has split personalities, just like Viki used to. However, it appears that Todd was faking his disorder and later left town.
Viki literally found herself at the Crossroads of her life. The Crossroads bar, that is. While out on a drive one night, Viki inexplicably felt herself drawn to the Crossroads and she ventured inside. Viki then found herself drawn to the handsome bartender Ben, who affectionately nicknamed her "Blondie." What Viki didn't know was that Ben was also the mysterious "Hamlet," a man who had very dangerous enemies.
As it turned out, a man named Hugo was after Ben and he wouldn't stop until Ben was dead! One night, gunfire erupted at the Crossroads and Viki forced a wounded Ben to return to Llanfair with her. Viki treated Ben's gunshot wound and learned that he was actually a very skilled surgeon who had gone into hiding. Ben then told Viki the truth about his mob connections and his past. At this same time, Dorian made a pact with Hugo in order to get revenge on Viki. Dorian blamed Viki for her husband, Mel's death and didn't like seeing Viki happy with her new boyfriend, Ben. Dorian and Hugo kidnapped Viki and held her hostage as a way to get to Ben. Hugo then turned the tables on Dorian and ended up holding her hostage with Viki. In the end, Viki and Dorian escaped and Hugo was killed in a deadly confrontation with Ben on the roof of The Palace Hotel.
Viki and Ben were finally free to have an open and public relationship. Things were slightly awkward at first, but Viki and Ben soon felt like soul mates, but it was interrupted when Skye Chandler came to town and announced she was still Ben's wife. Viki left Ben until he got divorced. Ben got a divorce and was able to return to his love Viki. In October of 1999, his sister, Grace's death for Ben began a vicious vendetta against Asa. When he saw how it was affecting his life, he took off to Vegas to think. Ben retuned to Llanview for Christmas and Viki and Ben shared a happy reunion, and on New Year Eve got engaged.
In February of 2000, Viki was diagnosed with breast cancer and left Ben, but Viki began to miss him a lot and Ben missed Viki also. After Viki's surgery and going through chemo, Ben and Viki reunited and got back together in May of 2000. Viki's cancer was cured and she and Ben married in November, 2000. But there was trouble even on the couple's wedding day. Still pursing his vendetta against the "Rappa-Davidsons", Asa had ordered a hit on Ben, which was carried out during the wedding reception while Ben and Viki were dancing. Fortunately, the bullet hit a coin that Renee had given Ben and he survived with barely a scratch. Ever since then, Viki and Ben have been looking over their shoulders, worried about another attempt on Ben's life. Ben went to his old girlfriend, Gina Russo for help, but as Viki soon learned, Gina was really the head of the Russo mob family and wanted to get Ben back. Gina kidnapped Viki and held her hostage in a room in her basement, threatening to kill Viki's daughter, Jessica, if she didn't go along with Gina's plan to win back Ben. The stress of the situation caused Viki's alters to re-emerge and one of the alters, Jean, tried to make a deal with Gina to win her freedom. Viki's alters continued to toy with Gina, and when Gina was eventually captured after a fight with Ben and Viki, Viki revealed that she had faked her personalities in order to rattle Gina. Gina fell from a cliff, but Viki's troubles and her split personalities were far from over.
Jessica had found love again with Seth Anderson, and a new friend in Natalie Balsom. Natalie even moved into the guest house. Then Viki learned that Natalie and Seth were working in tandem with Allison Perkins, who had recently been released from St. Anne's asylum against Viki's wishes, to con Viki and her family out of money. Viki attempted to get them all out of her and her family's lives, but Natalie furiously claimed that she was Viki's true daughter, not Jessica. Allison claimed that she had switched babies the night she kidnapped Jessica, and had given Natalie to a drunken floozy named Roxy Balsom. Viki and Natalie took DNA tests, and to Viki's horror, Natalie really was her daughter! Jessica was heartbroken, but Viki legally adopted her. Natalie was hellbent on revenge and caused constant turmoil in the mansion, which she had legal rights to stay in. Slowly, she and Viki began to grow closer, but for every step forward there were two steps back.
As Viki tried to deal with these headaches, she began having nightmares and visions of Niki Smith taunting her about a secret. Viki went to see her good friend Dr. Rae Cummings - not realizing Rae was a fraud and had never actually gotten her degree - for help with these problems. Rae hypnotized her to uncover the secret, briefly talking to Niki Smith. Rae found little, if anything, to help Viki, but she unknowingly unearthed a monster. Niki was back and she was going to do her best to never go away again! Niki faked being Viki, and over a period of months, tried to disrupt Viki's life in ways which would best suit her. Her main problem areas were Natalie, who had witnessed continuous hostile and un-Viki like behavior from Niki, and Ben, who was also puzzled by his wife's behavior and who, for some reason, physically repulsed her. After plans to hire a PI to bed Ben so she could catch them in the act (to prove adultery), to seduce Bo so Ben could catch *them*, and to make Ben look like a rageaholic all fizzled out, Niki decided to kill two housemates with one stone. She had begun a complicated plot to make Natalie think she had developed DID, and that her split personality was violent and untrustworthy. Ben saw her behaving suspiciously and realized she was really Niki. She pushed him out a window and framed Natalie for the crime. Since Ben didn't die, she even tried to smother him with his pillow!
Within a few weeks Natalie and Cristian Vega had deduced that Niki was in control. Niki went on the run, and was then kidnapped by a vengeful Allison Perkins. In the ensuing chaos at the family's cabin, Allison held her hostage as the cops swarmed in. Ben raced into the room to try to get to his wife, and Antonio Vega inadvertently shot him while aiming for Allison. The sight of her husband critically wounded finally brought Viki back. Unfortunately, Ben fell into a permanent coma, and Viki travelled to Switzerland to set him up in a hospital and to visit her old therapist Susannah Hanen to help clear up her alter issues.
When Viki returned she hoped for a bit of peace and quiet, but instead she faced one of the ugliest chapters of her life. Natalie had been through constant emotional trauma for months on end and felt she had no one to turn to. She married a mysterious man named Michael Lazarus. One day Viki finally met him face to face. He was none other than Mitch Laurence, who had been presumed dead since 1986! Mitch had tried to set her up to kill Tina in the mid-80's, had been responsible for Jessica's kidnapping, and many other crimes. He had another bomb to drop - he had drugged and raped Viki one night, resulting in Jessica's conception. He was Jessica's natural father! He had spirited Jessica away from Viki soon after she had given birth, and Viki, numb from hospital drugs, had been unable to stop him. He hated Natalie because she was Clint and Viki's real daughter, but Jessica was his and he wouldn't let Natalie be free until Viki made sure he made inroads into Jessie's life.
Viki sent Jessica out of town to keep the news from her, but within a few days she had come back on her own, and without Viki to protect her, Mitch quickly located her and filled her in on every nasty detail. Jessica confronted Viki and learned that every word was true. Even though Viki had had no way of stopping Mitch from stealing Jessica back then, Jessica saw this as the ultimate betrayal and cut all ties with her mother. She soon left town to visit with Clint in London, and as Viki anxiously waited for her to return, she had to help rescue Natalie from nearly consummating her sham marriage to Mitch. Over a year after Ben had slipped into his coma, he suddenly awoke. Still weak, and knowing he had no right to have Viki wait until he fully recovered, he told her to go on with her life.
Viki received the shock of her life when she learned that not only did she not kill her father, but he was alive and well. She soon learned that Natalie's husband, Mitch, had been secretly keeping Victor alive. Mitch planned to transplant Natalie's healthy heart into Victor, allowing the Lord patriarch to live on. Viki managed to stop Mitch's plan, and saved her daughter. But a newfound will left everything to Mitch, and Viki was horrified when Dorian showed up as Mitch's wife, and took over Llanfair. Mitch terrorized the citizens of Llanview for months until he was finally murdered, and Viki's one consolation was that her half-brother, Todd, was alive and well, pretending to be Mitch's long-lost brother Walker. She was named president of Llanview University, and Viki began to see Governor Brooks, but after spending some time marooned on an island with Dorian, realized Brooks was corrupt and broke things off with him.
At the same time, Viki began having troubles with her heart. After seeing a doctor, she learned she was suffering from heart disease, and needed a transplant. After the donor heart intended for Viki was contaminated by dirty chief of staff Dr. Long, her family realized they may have to say goodbye, until they heard that Ben, whose heart was a perfect genetic match for Viki, flat-lined after a conversation with Dorian. Her family begged her to accept his heart, which she finally did, knowing that now Ben would always be with her. After recovering from her surgery, Viki was forced to tell Dorian that she had been removed from the position of Chief of Staff at the hospital after the Paul Cramer murder, which again started up the feud they had decided to end while on the island. Dorian then framed Viki for embezzling funds from the university, and Viki was forced to resign as president, not long before she started feeling ill again, and was told that she had a mild infection in her heart.
As Viki rested to recover from her illness, Jessica began struggling with the secret of her DID. She kept it a secret until one day when Tess was pretending to be Jessica and yelled at Viki, causing her to have a heart attack. While at the hospital, Viki had an experimental procedure to get blood to her heart. It eventually came out that it was not Jessica who yelled at Viki but Tess. Viki was devastated when she learned that Jessica has DID as she does. Later, Viki and Clint learned that Tess existed because of Niki's actions during Jessica's childhood. While both struggling with Jessica's DID, Clint and Viki got closer and began dating again. Unfortunately (and as usual), Dorian got involved in breaking the two up and eventually Clint chose to be with Dorian over Viki which added fuel to their fiery rivalry. In an attempt to upset Dorian, Viki even invited David Vickers to stay at Llanfair with her. The two women continued to bicker and fight until Monte Carlo night when Viki lost $10M against Dorian in a poker game (for charity). Viki then realized that her life was not as full as she thought and left the country right after Asa's funeral.
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