General Hospital Comings & Goings: Lauren Swickard Debuts and Stephen A. Smith is Back (2024)

Who is returning, and who is out at General Hospital spring and summer of 2023? Find out what’s coming up for your fave Port Charles residents this spring.

Readers can expect the GH recap to go live at 3:00 PM EST, daily.

GH fall and winter 2022 comings and goings, along with winter and early spring 2023.

Lauren Swickard

Lauren Swickard appears as a nurse at Ferncliff the week of August 7. Incidentally, Swickard is married to Josh Swickard who plays Chase.

Swickard has been in several Hallmark-style Christmas shows such as Holiday Harmony, A California Christmas, A California Christmas: City Lights the last two of which she wrote and starred in alongside her husband.

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Stephen A. Smith Brings Brick Back to GH

Stephen A. Smith is back to GH as Brick, Sonny’s (Maurice Benard) ‘associate’.

He was last seen during the week of April 24 with Dex (Evan Hofer) and will return the week of August 7 (spoiler!) with critical intel for Sonny (Maurice Benard).

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Daisy Wang

Daisy Wang will be seen on GH as Mandy, a nurse who works at Ferncliff. Her patient is Sasha (Sofia Mattsson). She first appears the week of July 24.

Maurice Hall

Maurice Hall will be leaving General Hospital as Gordon Stevens in a permanent way when Dex (Evan Hofer) finds his dead body.

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Walt Willey

Walt Willey has exited General Hospital, his last scene was on July 18.

The actor may return to GH in the future.

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Ella Lentini

Ella Lentini debuts on GH as Betty Rutherford. The new nanny.

She in scenes with Maura West (Ava).

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Brad Schmidt

Brad Schmidt is back on General Hospital as the Pentonville inmate, Book.

Book will be seen coming up the week of July 24.

Some will remember that he was previously a recast for Brando June 7, 2022.

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Brooke Anne Smith

Brooke Anne Smith will be taking over the role of Molly Lansing Davis starting Wednesday, July 19. It is not known if this is temporary or not. Smith takes over where Holiday Mia Kriegel left off in her short stint as the original portrayer, Haley Pullos, headed to rehab recently following a DUI incident.

Smith was seen as a regular on Tyler Perry’s Too Close to Home and was in Cinnamon Girl.

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Kendrick Cross

Kendrick Cross will be seen as Detective Bennett once again, the PCPD Investigator who works on Curtis’ shooting.

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Maurice Hall

Maurice Hall can be seen on GH as Gordon the week of July 17.

Alley Mills

Alley Mills is returning to GH as Heather Webber. She’ll first be seen the week of July 17.

Last we saw Heather, she was headed back to prison on February 27.

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Jonathan Ohye

Jonathan Ohye appears on GH as Dr. Andy Lacey who tries to save a life after a shooting at the Metro Court the week of July 10.

Nicholas Alexander Chavez

Nicholas Alexander Chavez will be exiting General Hospital temporarily in order to star in the second season of Netflix’s anthology, Monster.

Chavez will portray one of the Menedez brothers.

According to TV Line, “GH does not intend to bring in a new actor to portray Spencer while Chavez is away.” There is no start date for this project, considering the current writers’ strike is ongoing.

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Cyrus Hobbi is back as Yuri once again during the week of June 5.

He’ll be needed for his bodyguard services.

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Brenda Barberena

Brenda Barberena will appear on GH as Pilar, Avery’s (Ava/Grace Scarola) nanny the week of June 26.

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Christina Ferraro

Christina Ferraro returns to GH as Dr. Navarro.

She’ll be seen this week in scenes with Molly (Holiday Mia Kriegel) and TJ (Tajh Bellow) to discuss her diagnosis.

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Darin Toonder

Darin Toonder will appear on GH as Dr. Montague. Some will remember his past credits which include Bones, Modern Family, Parks and Recreation, Jane the Virgin, Devious Maids, and Ozark.

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Walt Willey

Walt Willey will be coming to General Hospital this July for an appearance.

This is a special appearance, because, and this is according to Soap Opera Digest, Willey will be reprising his role of Jackson Montgomery, who the actor portrayed on All My Children during 1987 to 2011 when the show ended its run on ABC, before moving to Hulu.

Willey has also worked on The City in another crossover role as Jackson Montgomery, Ryan’s Hope as Joe Novak, he portrayed Jacoby on As The World Turns and Gregory Ashford in Tainted Dreams.

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Susan Diol

Susan Diol will make an appearance on General Hospital as Nurse Clare.

Some will remember her as Angela on One Life to Live, and Emmy on Days of our Lives.

Diol will be in scenes with Katelyn MacMullen (Willow).

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Gavin Houston

Gavin Houston returns as Zeke Robinson, Portia’s (Brooke Kerr) brother. This is as per Soap Digest.

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Alan Brooks

Alan Brooks is back the week of May 29 as Victor’s (Charles Shaughnessy) lawyer who will be leading the reading of the will.

Jeff Griggs

Jeff Griggs has been playing Agent Hursley, the hard-nosed WSB agent.

He’s no stranger to soaps and used to portray Jude. St. Clair on Days of our Lives in 1995 and 1996. He also played Antony on Desperate Housewives in 2010.

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Charles Shaughnessy

Charles Shaughnessy is exiting General Hospital as Victor Cassadine makes his escape on the Haunted Star the week of April 10. He will be seen once more during the reading of the will the week of May 29.

After a very long wait, viewers got to see him detail his diabolical plan to Spencer (Nicholas Chavez) which included murdering billions with a pathogen in order to reduce humanity’s carbon footprint.

It’s all explained in the April 13 GH recap.

The actor turned to Twitter to express his thoughts on the role. “ I have been so grateful for such a fun, meaty role and the writers@GeneralHospital are giving Victor one of the greatest Villain send offs I can remember!”

Well, I am both honored and humbled! Thank you. I have been so grateful for such a fun, meaty role and the writers @GeneralHospital are giving Victor one of the greatest Villain send offs I can remember!

— Charles Shaughnessy (@C_Shaughnessy) April 9, 2023

Emma Samms

Emma Samms is leaving once again as her current storyline comes to a conclusion.

She was last seen in scenes with Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio) as Holly and Robert said goodbye.

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Vernee Watson

Vernee Watson returns to GH this week as Stella Henry.

She’ll be in scenes with Marshall (Robert Gossett).

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Susan Batten and Morgan Fairchild

Susan Batten (Flora Gardens) and Morgan Fairchild return once again to GH as the home-shopping celebrities who meet with Sasha.

Fairchild resumes her role as Haven de Havilland, host of the Home & Heart show.

Batten and Fairchild were last seen July 6, 2022 when Sasha had a meltdown on the air when she was asked to wear a baby carrier after Liam died.

She started hallucinating that the doll in the carrier was Liam and that he was alive.

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Haley Pullos Recast

Read all about the temporary recast of Haley Pullos.

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Real Andrews

Soap Digest reports that Real Andrews returns to GH as Marcus Taggert in scenes with Portia (Brook Kerr) as they hope for Trina (Tabyana Ali) to return to them safely from Greenland.

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Kate Mansi

Kate Mansi (ex-Abigail Deveraux DiMera, Days of our Lives) will take over the role of Kristina Corinthos. Soap Digest reports that Lexi Ainsworth is already gone, having aired her final scene on April 27.

Meanwhile, Kate Mansi will first appear during the week of May 22.

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Anthony Montgomery

Anthony Montgomery is back on GH on Friday, April 28 as Andre Maddox.

He’ll be in scenes with Jordan (Tanisha Harper), Anna (Finola Hughes) and Holly (Emma Samms).

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James Ryan

SoapsSpoilers can confirm that James Ryan debuts on General Hospital as Ethan Lovett starting on Monday, April 17. He’ll be in a few scenes and exiting before the end of April.

Ethan’s the son of Holly Sutton (Emma Samms) and Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary).

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AnaSofia Bianchi

AnaSofia Bianchi joins General Hospital as Charlotte Cassadine. Amelie McLain played Charlotte since December of 2121 but was recast in the role.

The actress will first be seen on the April 10 episode in a scene with Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) and Felicia (Kristina Wagner).

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Dan Buran

Dan Buran will be exiting General Hospital as Linc Brown is arrested at the Nurses’ Ball for being a sexual predator.

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Constance Towers

Constance Towers will make another return to the ABC soap as Helena Cassadine.

Her Official Facebook page notified fans that, “Constance Towers has taped scenes for some upcoming General Hospital episodes. The air dates for her appearances are May 5th and May 8th. Air dates are always subject to change depending on network priorities. If we are advised of a programming change we will post it here.”

The character is only on for two episodes.

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Emma Samms

Emma Samms was back to GH as Holly from October 2022 to November 2022 and was revealed to be working for Victor in an attempt to keep her son safe.

When things got to be too much, Robert (Tristan Rogers) and Felicia (Kristina Wagner) staged an explosion in a cabin and sent Holly to a burn clinic to keep her safe from Victor’s machinations.

Since Miss Wu remembered drugging the Cassadine recently and the man saw a doctor who revealed that he has a pathogen in his system, that could only mean Holly’s on her way back.

SoapsSpoilers can officially confirm that we can find Holly back on the show in April 14th.

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Jane Elliot

Jane Elliot is returning to General Hospital once again as Tracy Quartermaine.

She’ll be back on April 17th and will be around for a long while.

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