Additionally, she won two Soapy Awards for Actress of the Year and Favorite Heroine in 1977. In 1976 to 1978 she was voted Best Actress in Daytime TV’s Annual Reader’s Poll. She has appeared on the show in a recurring capacity since 1999, often doing double duty between “Days” and “Y&R”, in one case appearing on both shows on the very same day, a feat possible because of their different shooting and airing schedules.įor her work on Days, susan has received four Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, in 1975, 1976, 1978, and 1979 and in 2018 she received one nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She played the role continuously from 1968 to 1984 and again from 1990 to 1993, with recurring appearances in 19. Susan is popularly known for her work on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives in the role of Julie Olson Williams. In 1962 she also had a guest appearance on Perry Mason as title character Helen Gregory in “The Case of the Stand-in Sister.” She appeared on General Hospital as the flirtatious Dorothy Bradley (1964) in the mid 1960s and later on The Young Marrieds as Carol West (1965), giving her some experience into the hectic world of daytime television soap opera. In 1962 she was in two separate episodes of Cheyenne with Clint Walker.
She guest starred in National Velvet, The Fugitive, Redigo, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., at least two appearances on My Three Sons, plus episodes of Emergency!, Adam-12, the 1967-1970 version of Dragnet, and Matlock, starring Andy Griffith. She appeared as Martha Otis, the wife of Jim Otis (Gil Peterson), a gold prospector who finds an unexpected bonanza in silver in the 1967 episode “Solid Foundation” of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor.
She appeared in the TV series Cheyenne in the episode, “The Bad Penny”, portraying a young murderess avenging the hanging of her outlaw father. When he wasn't blaspheming in scenes where he got busy talking to himself, he was sleeping with his brother Ricardo's girlfriend Gabi and accidentally taping it." White added that Kiriazis was "stunningly gorgeous", which is why fans of Sunset Beach called him "Father Fit.In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s Susan had a number of featured roles on prime-time television. Father Antonio was the worst priest of all time. I'm going for Father Antonio because he manages to encompass many of the things I love about the show. She stated "No list would be complete for me without a face from my favourite soap ever, Sunset Beach. In 2012, Kate White from Inside Soap named Antonio as one of her favourite soap opera characters of the last 20 years. He spent months trying to ruin Antonio's life by calling an archbishop to take away Antonio, but eventually, the truth came out, the brothers came to forgive each other for everything they've done, and Gabi left town. Antonio and Gabi decided to forget about everything that happened between them, but Ricardo was there to ruin it. At Gabi and Ricardo's wedding, Carmen used the tape of their lovemaking to blackmail Gabi into leaving Ricardo at the altar, but they eventually got married and everything was going fine until Ricardo found the tape and decided to destroy Gabi and Antonio's life. When Francesca was murdered, Gabi and Antonio were possible suspects, but they actually didn't have anything to do with her murder. The tape of their lovemaking was later used by Francesca Vargas to blackmail Antonio and Gabi.
When Gabi and Antonio ended up trapped in an exploding building, they thought they would die, so they slept together, and a camera filmed them. Meanwhile, both Gabi, Antonio and Ricardo were involved in a Rosario jewels story. Gabi and Antonio found themselves attracted to each other, but they kept denying the attraction.
His brother had just started a relationship with Gabi Martinez, and their mother Carmen did not approve of their relationship. Antonio, brother of Ricardo Torres, came to Sunset Beach early in 1998 when he got transferred to work back home.