Genie Francis

About

Genie Francis (born May 26, 1962) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Laura Spencer on the television soap opera General Hospital since 1977, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2007.
Francis also appeared in the soap operas Days of Our Lives from 1987 to 1989, All My Children from 1990 to 1992, and The Young and the Restless from 2011 to 2012.

Francis was born in Englewood, New Jersey. Her father was Canadian actor Ivor Francis. Her mother, Rosemary Daley, was a former actress/model. Genie has an older brother, Ivor Jr., a younger brother, Kenneth, and an older half-sister, Shelley, from her father’s first marriage.

Francis began acting on the television series Family, in the two part episode titled “Jury Duty”. Her big break came in 1977 with the role of Laura Spencer on General Hospital. It would bring her instant stardom in the late 1970s. The television couple of Luke and Laura wed on November 17, 1981, with 30 million viewers tuning in to make the episode the highest-rated hour in soap opera history. At the peak of her success, in 1982, Francis left the series to try her hand at prime-time television. She soon landed…