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Top 10 Soap Returns In New Roles for 2022

Photos: CBS/ABC/NBC/JPI/Howard Wise As we approach the end of 2022, we are rolling out the best of the best for the year. We continue with another list highlighting the top 10 returns to soaps for the year. In this category, we are highlighting actors who were on soap operas before but returned to playing a…

Michael Thomas

December 11, 2022

2–3 minutes

End of Year

Photos: CBS/ABC/NBC/JPI/Howard Wise

As we approach the end of 2022, we are rolling out the best of the best for the year. We continue with another list highlighting the top 10 returns to soaps for the year. In this category, we are highlighting actors who were on soap operas before but returned to playing a new role. Check out the list below and let us know what you think.

Honorable Mentions:

Max Decker – Johann Bauer, General Hospital (played Zig on Days and Carlos Reyes on AMC)

Joshua Benard – Adam, GH (played a young Sonny on GH)

Heather Mazur – Eileen Ashby, GH (played Brenda Brecheen on Y&R)

Linda Purl – Peyton Honeycutt, GH (played Claire Wright on Port Charles)

William Christian – T.R. Coates, Days of Our Lives (played Derek Frye on All My Children and Dr. Marshall Redd on Another World)

Top 10:

10. Josh Kelly – Cody Bell, GH

(played Cutter Wentworth on One Life to Live)

9. Cassandra Creech – Grace Buckingham, The Bold and the Beautiful

(played Diane/Keisha on DAYS, Dana Kramer on Another World and Denise Maynard on As the World Turns)

8. James Hyde – Jeremy Stark, Y&R

(played Sam Bennett on Passions, Liam on Another World and Neil Johanssen on ATWT)

7. Kelsey Wang – Allie Nguyen, The Young and the Restless

(Wang got her kick start in soaps playing Daisy on GH)

6. Robert Adamson – Michael Corinthos, GH

(Adamson was famous for playing Noah Newman on Y&R)

5. Alley Mills – Heather Webber, GH

(Mills recurs on B&B as Pam Douglas)

4. Trevor St. John – Tucker McCall, Y&R

(played Victor Lord Jr. and Todd Manning on One Life to Live)

3. Zach Tinker – Sonny Kiriakis, DAYS

(Tinker debuted in Beyond Salem as Sonny in 2021 but made his way to the mothership show this year. He also played Fenmore Baldwin on Y&R)

2. Robert Scott Wilson – Alex Kiriakis, DAYS

(Wilson played Ben Weston on the show before, he also played Petey Cortlandt on the All My Children reboot)

1. Robert Newman – Ashland Locke, Y&R

Many would agree with us that Robert Newman deserves the top spot in this category. After a long hiatus from soaps, Newman returned this year in January as a recast Ashland Locke on Y&R and he was outstanding. Newman originally started in soaps back in 1981 when he played Joshua Lewis on Guiding Light Congrats to all!