Amanda Dillon
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 Chrishell Stause as Amanda Dillon (2007) |
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| Portrayed by | Chrishell Stause | ||||||||||||||
| First appearance | May 14, 1992 (birth) | ||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Cocktail waitress at ConFusion nightclub Former personal assistant at Fusion Cosmetics Former personal assistant at New Beginnings |
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| Residence | Wildwind, Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, with Del Henry, Julia Santos and Aidan Devane. Formerly the Chandler Mansion. Formerly Denver, Colorado. Formerly at The Dillon House, 312 Pine Street |
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Amanda Dillon is a fictional character from the American daytime All My Children. She is currently portrayed by actress Chrishell Stause (May 4, 2005 to present).
[edit] Brief character history
Amanda Dillon is the daughter of Trevor Dillon and ex-convict Janet Green Dillon. Amanda is conceived when Janet is posing as her sister Natalie. The Dillon family (Trevor, Janet, Amanda, Tim, and Harold the Dog) later moves to Colorado. Amanda returns to Pine Valley on May 4, 2005 to attend school and reconnect with childhood friends J.R. Chandler and Jamie Martin.
When drunken J.R. hits Amanda with his car, Babe Carey takes the blame for J.R., so that Amanda believes Babe is responsible for hitting her, only adding to the enmity between them. Amanda begins experiencing blackouts, and during these times, odd events begin occurring: Babe is pushed down a flight of stairs, the Chandlers' Thanksgiving soup is poisoned, Little Adam Chandler is kidnapped. Amanda secretly fears that she is responsible for these events. She can't remember if she caused them, all the while defending herself against Babe and J.R.'s accusations. Jamie, himself suspecting Amanda, plays her champion to get information.
Amanda confesses her blackouts to Josh Madden, who hires her as his assistant at Erica Kane's talk show New Beginnings. Josh begins to sabotage Erica, even going so far as drugging her, and frames Amanda. By this time, Amanda realizes that Janet is responsible for the crimes she is accused of around Pine Valley, but Amanda protects her mother out of maternal loyalty. As Amanda tries to convince her mother to seek counseling, she is thrown in prison for drugging Erica. Her innocence later proven, Amanda realizes her mother is planning on blowing up a charity event and rushes to stop her. Amanda is unable to, and people die in the explosion.
After kidnapping Babe, Janet is caught, but Amanda learns that in her madness, Janet had killed Trevor Dillon. Amanda, depressed and ostracized for protecting Janet for so long, is given a job by Dr. Greg Madden. Greg, a fertility doctor, convinces a vulnerable Amanda to become a surrogate mother, secretly motivated by his own nefarious intentions. However, Greg is buried in the park and dies before he can even get Amanda fertilized with an egg.
Amanda soon focuses her attention on keeping Lily Montgomery, her one-time stepsister and Jonathan Lavery, Lily's new husband, together. Jonathan, who has mentally suffered from the removal of a brain tumor for months, regains his mentality back. However, he begs Amanda to keep it a secret when she finds out because he doesn't want to hurt the autistic Lily. However, Lily finds out and soon dumps Jonathan, breaking his heart, while Amanda realizes she has fallen for Jonathan. She eventually seduces him, the start of their romantic relationship. Their romantic mingling eventually ends, however, due to Amanda realizing that Jonathan will never love her as deeply as he loves Lily and she cannot continue to be a "friend with benefits".
Amanda's life has rebounded in recent months, securing a job at ConFusion and renewing her friendship with Babe. She is also living at Wildwind at Julia Santos' invitation. Amanda becomes involved in an intimate relationship with J.R. Chandler; Kendall Hart Slater and Aidan Devane warn her not to get involved with him. When J.R. tells Amanda that he is broke, she pushes him in the lake. They soon break up.
[edit] Kidnapping and Blackmail
After being kidnapped, Amanda and J.R. reconnect. The two come together and she later discovers that J.R. was behind their kidnapping. In order to keep her silent, J.R. promises to pay her a large sum of money. The two agree to work together to con Adam Chandler, but the kidnapping goes astray when Zach Slater interfers. Amanda later blackmails Adam with a tape of J.R. confessing to his crimes which includes a timestamp in order to get him out of jail for a hit-and-run. She obtains the yacht that J.R. was living in (which was once sold to Adam by Erica Kane) and a sum of money. With the money, Amanda says she will put her mother in a better institution where she get treated better. Since her blackmailing of J.R.'s freedom, Amanda's relationship with Babe has weakened.
Amanda was arrested in June 2008 for prostitution while helping Babe get information from a prostitute. Amanda was released when she got to the police station.
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