Convicted of Mitch Laurence's alleged murder in the s and sent to prison; an audio tape was later found proving Dorian had supposedly killed Mitch in self-defense. Attempted to lock Viki in the secret room at Llanfair until she convinced Sloan Carpenter not to publish his book about Victor Lord.
Scammed the jury in her Victor Lord murder trial by getting David Vickers to produce a forged diary allegedly written by Irene Clayton saying Irene killed Victor.
Gannon bribing the judge. Drugged Charlie Banks and plied him with alcohol to keep him from revealing his true identity to Viki []. Accused of possessing classified CIA documents about illegal black sites and was forced to resign from the U.
Knowingly supplied financial advisor Frank Baker false information about the Pellegrino fund garnered from her position on the Senate Finance Committee [May ].
Dorian Cramer and her neurotic sister, Melinda, arrived in Llanview in Dorian was very devoted to her sister's care. Melinda, once a piano prodigy, saw her budding career end when a fall from a horse paralyzed her arm. Dorian became a doctor in Llanview Hospital, where she quickly started an affair with Dr. Mark Toland. Melinda, her sister, wanted Mark for herself and schemed to make sure Dorian did not have him. After attacking Mark, Melinda was sent to a mental institution. Dorian and Mark continued their affair, but after an intense fight, Dorian made a careless mistake on patient Rachel Wilson's chart and the patient died as a result.
Fearing for her career, Dorian covered up the crime and Dr. Larry Wolek was arrested instead. With the guilt on her shoulders, she accidentally fell down some stairs and went into a coma. Upon waking, Dorian confessed and was immediately fired by the hospital board; she blamed Victoria Lord, a prominent member, for her termination.
This started a rivalry that would last for decades. What Dorian didn't know, and finally learned in , was that Viki cast the lone vote against her termination. Dorian later married and cared for Viki's father, Victor Lord, who was bedridden by heart problems. Dorian loved Victor's family fortune more than she loved her husband. After Dorian got Victor to change his will, he suffered a stroke and died. As the widow of Victor Lord, Dorian had been blissfully living at Llanfair.
However, a clause in the will stated that the house was supposed to revert to Viki upon Dorian's remarriage. When a teen-age girl named Cassie Reynolds appeared in Llanview, it was revealed that the girl was Dorian's daughter. Cassie's biological father, classical pianist David Renaldi, had taken Cassie and left without a word, and Dorian didn't know for years where her daughter was.
Dorian took Cassie in, and Herb adopted her. In , Dorian walked in on evil cult leader Mitch Laurence trying to rape Cassie and hit him over the head, apparently killing him.
Dorian was convicted of Mitch's murder and sent to Statesville, but was eventually exonerated when a tape surfaced that proved the killing had been in self-defense. In , Dorian left Llanview to become the U. Ambassador to Mendorra after discovering that Cassie was having an affair with Dorian's boyfriend, private detective Jon Russell. Dorian returned to Llanview several years later and briefly took up with a much younger man, Jason Webb. For years after Victor's death, Viki persisted in thinking that Dorian murdered him.
Some twenty years later, Viki went to the D. Dorian was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Dorian served time on death row but was eventually freed.
It was later revealed that one of Viki's multiple-personalities committed the murder, although this revelation was later brought into question when a seemingly alive Victor resurfaced briefly in Out of revenge for Viki accusing her of murdering Victor, Dorian began seducing Viki's young son, Joey.
In the process, she developed true feelings for Joey and fell in love with him. However, Dorian was forced to break up with Joey while being held captive by one of Viki's alters, Jean Randolph. Dorian's next love interest was Mel Hayes.
Dorian and Mel met in Washington, D. A drunken Mel literally fell over her when they met in a hotel bar. The sparks between them were instantaneous, and their feelings for one another continued to grow. Dorian convinced Mel to move to Llanview and take a job as a news reporter at the Banner. It soon became clear to Mel that Dorian was hiding something from her past, something she would do anything to keep hidden, even tamper with her sister, Melinda's medication.
It was eventually revealed that Dorian had been abused by her mother as a child and had seen her mother kill her father. Dorian went back to Canton, where she had lived as a child, and found that her mother was still alive, but insane. Dorian saved Cassie when her mother, Sonya, attacked her, but ended up killing Sonya in the process. After returning to Llanview, Dorian was shot and very seriously wounded in a bodega holdup.
She hovered on the verge of death and went to "Hell", where she was met by Carlo Hesser. Dorian wrestled with her demons and in the end was able to come to peace with her mother and herself, and when Dorian woke up, she declared that she would be a new, better person. It lasted for a while, and Dorian even was friendly with Viki for a time. Dorian married Mel in the City Room of the Banner, but the honeymoon ended and Dorian once again began interfering in the lives of 'her girls', despite Mel's best efforts to stop her from meddling.
After Cassie suffered a nervous breakdown, Dorian tried to sneak Cassie away from Kevin Buchanan to a mental institution in Switzerland. Mel disagreed and walked out on Dorian. After she realized what she had done to her marriage, she tried to stop him from going on a business trip with Viki.
She sent a note on the plane, but Viki got it instead and got off. After the plane took off there was an explosion and Mel was killed. From this point on she vowed revenge on Viki for Mel's death. Soon after, she kidnapped Viki with Hugo Monroe's help and locked her in the cellar. Hugo decided he didn't need help and locked Dorian in there, too. Needless to say, they called a truce after that. Dorian often called on the services of Madame Delphina to channel Mel's spirit, who urged her to make full peace with Viki.
Ironically, on her way to Viki's she hit a pregnant Jessica Buchanan with her car. Jess's baby Megan was born and died soon after. Dorian and R. Gannon covered her tracks because she didn't think anyone would believe it was just an accident. Dorian was prepared to let her friend, Lindsay take the rap when suddenly Jess remembered who hit her. Dorian then confessed. She served no jail time because R. Someone then started to torment Dorian and drive her crazy. It turned out to be Jessica.
Jessica was prepared to mow down Dorian, who was on her knees, but ultimately decided to forgive her. Next, an old friend of Mel's, Drake Faraday, came to town to meet Dorian and put the moves on her.
Dorian agreed to leave town with Drake and threw a party to announce her departure to her family and friends. Soon after, Dorian quietly left Llanview to travel around the world with Drake. In , Dorian returned to town with plans to strike it rich.
Learning that a back-from-the-dead Mitch Laurence had just inherited Victor Lord's estate, she cozied up to him and soon the pair got married. Unfortunately, Dorian quickly saw how evil Mitch was when she ended up saving his own daughter from him. By this time, Dorian had the Bahdra diamond in her possession and she hid that from Mitch while at the same time haunting him.
In the end, Mitch wound up dead. However Dorian wound up the loser when she learned that he changed his will to make Jessica his sole heir. Initially arrested for his murder, she was found innocent, then lost the Lord fortune when a judge determined Viki was the rightful heir, and Dorian moved back to La Boulaie. However, Dorian would find herself falling for David herself. Although they made plans to marry, it was becoming obvious that Dorian wasn't about to marry him.
In the meantime, Dorian, in an attempt to secure an inheritance from her Aunt Betsy, suddenly announced to everyone that a newcomer named Adriana Colon was her biological daughter. Dorian told David that she couldn't marry him, and David couldn't understand why until Dorian revealed she was already married, to Manuel Santi -- Adriana's father.
After Manuel died, Dorian had the marriage annulled, but she still kept putting off her marriage to David. Once Aunt Betsy's supposed millions which were left to Adriana proved to be nothing, Dorian, David and Paul Cramer went after the Santi fortune, but never got their hands on it, either. They were cleared, but their relationship suffered because of Dorian's obsession with her family. David moved out, even though he continued to support her in framing Viki for embezzling from the university.
Once Dorian and Manuel's marriage was a thing of the past, David and Dorian made their own plans to marry, but on their wedding day, David shocked Dorian when he told her he could not marry her. Although he later admitted that Spencer had forced him to jilt her, Dorian couldn't forgive him for not telling her what was going on, and found herself attracted to a recently-returned Clint Buchanan.
Dorian juggled her attraction to Clint with her remaining attraction to David, which resurfaced after David confessed to having shot Thomas McBain. But her main worry became Adriana after she learned that someone was stalking her daughter, and she reluctantly accepted Adriana's relationship with Rex when she saw how the young man protected her.
The truth finally came out that Dorian had actually hired a man to "stalk" her daughter and set Rex up to look like the stalker. Unfortunately, things went sour when Adriana was kidnapped and not returned to Dorian like planned. Adriana's stalker was keeping her hostage for money and Dorian panicked. Rex came to the rescue again and saved Adriana but this brought her relationship with Dorian to a halt. Adriana was extremely angry when she found out that Dorian was behind the stalking and had her arrested.
Dorian stood by her story that she had nothing to do with the stalking but by doing so, she lost Clint's trust and their relationships also fell apart. Eventually, Rex and Viki helped guide Adriana and Dorian back together..
Clint also gave Dorian another chance and they became friends. Clint started to date Viki again, which made Dorian jealous. Viki told Clint to choose either her or Dorian, and Clint chose an overjoyed Dorian. As their relationship grew stronger, Viki and David's friendship grew stronger and eventually David moved in with Viki when Dorian refused to allow him to stay at La Boulaie.
In August , during the funeral for Asa Buchanan, Dorian and Viki got trapped in the wine cellar at the Buchanan mansion. There, Dorian made the startling claim that she was the one who actually had killed Victor Lord all those years ago and questioned whether the man who resurfaced in was actually Victor or an imposter.
Clint and Dorian's relationship came to an end in August , when Dorian falsely believed that Clint was having an affair with Nora and slept with David Vickers.
Clint walked in on Dorian and David and called it quits. Soon thereafter, Clint and Nora actually began dating. Dorian, as revenge for being dumped by Clint, orchestrated a hostile takeover of Buchanan Enterprises. Dorian announced the takeover at a BE shareholders meeting, and at the same time revealed that the man Clint believed was his half-brother, Jared Banks, was in fact an imposter and was dating Clint's daughter Natalie. Clint nearly strangled Dorian to death at the meeting.
Following Nash's death, Jessica's alter Tess resurfaced and tampered with the brakes on Natalie's car in an attempt to kill her. Viki instead got behind the wheel and picked up a stranded Dorian on the road. It's a dirty job; Strasser likes to do it. After all, where would soaps be without their villains: Victor the unrelenting on "The Young and the Restless"; Sheila who will not be good on "The Bold and the Beautiful"; Alan Michael, the never humbled, on "Guiding Light"? Never fill her plate.
Dorian never feels she's getting enough. On her return, the actress came out swinging. Dorian proceeded to steamroll over those who would stand in her way, keeping her young ponytailed lover on a tight leash while she plotted to undermine all happy couples and eat her enemies for brunch.
This week, the vain and beautiful Dorian realizes that she has breast cancer. The story line, like so many others created by executive producer Linda Gottlieb, will be self-contained with a beginning, middle and end for the protagonist, much the way movies are plotted. I've always believed that daytime shouldn't limit itself. Make it look like the movies. Darn right. In subsequent messages, Strasser explained that her final appearances on One Life to Live would be taped in July.
Strasser assumed the role of Dorian in and remained a One Life to Live cast member through She returned to the show in , but exited in February amid a very public disagreement with then-executive producer Jill Farren Phelps. I always said I owed the fans everything and it's never more true than now. Strasser will last air on One Life to Live on August 25 -- but the door will be left open for her to return before the series' finale.
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