Amanda Davies, the daughter of One Life to Live celebrity Erika Slezak that notoriously represented a more youthful variation of her mama’s famous personality on the long-running soap, dropped dead today. She was 42.
“It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of Erika’s daughter, Amanda Elizabeth Davies, who died very suddenly,” reviews a declaration on Slezak’s main follower website.“The family is heartbroken and would appreciate privacy at this time.”
Davies is best understood to followers of ABC’s One Life to Live, which premiered in 1968 and covered in 2012, as the more youthful variation of matriarch Victoria “Viki” Lord. She showed up on the daytime staple in 2002 throughout recall scenes, attributed as “Young Viki.” This was Davies’ major venture right into acting, though she did show up in a brief entitled The Present in 2011.
The daughter of Slezak and star Brian Davies, understood for sustaining functions in modern-day standards American Gigolo and The Age of Virtue, Davies was birthed in 1981 right into something of a doing empire. Her grandpa was Tony-winning Viennese personality star Walter Slezak– that likewise emerged in One Life to Live– and her great-grandfather was Austrian opera celebrity LeoSlezak
Slezak sculpted a name for herself on daytime television after tackling the duty of Viki Lord, the soap’s main lead character, in 1971. Over 4 years she took home a document 6 Daytime Emmys for her representation of the heiress to a media realm and matriarch to the program’s main household.
Love and assistance for Slezak came online as information of Davies’ premature death damaged.
“This just broke my heart. My thoughts are with dear Erika at this time. I know how much she loved her children,” tv reporter Michael Fairman created on X.
Davies is made it through by her mom, dad and sibling, 44-year-old Michael Davies.
