Marina Nadine Lewis is a fictional character

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 on the popular CBS

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 daytime soap opera

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, Guiding Light

Guiding Light

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. The character is the only child of police chief, Frank Cooper

Frank Cooper Jr.

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, and ex-wife, Eleni Andros and was born on-screen on May 8, 1993. In December 2001, her birth year was SORASed

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 to the early 1980s. The character has been portrayed by six different actresses

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 with Mandy Bruno

Mandy Bruno

Mandy Bruno is an American Emmy-nominated actress.-Career:She has been playing the role of Marina Cooper on Guiding Light from May 2004 to September 2009 and received her first nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award in 2006 for Outstanding Younger Actress.Bruno has a BFA in Theater from Otterbein...

 currently playing the role on Guiding Light since May 24, 2004.

Character history

Marina became a police recruit after being accepted at Springfield's Police Academy following the footsteps of her father and aunt before her. Her love interest at the time, Danny Santos, was a former mobster. As of 2007, she is now a detective.

In 2009, the character of Marina has become embroiled in the Edmund Winslow murder mystery and has been featured very prominently when she was thought to be his killer, even though he was revealed to be alive. Marina married A.C. Mallet

A.C. Mallet

Anthony "Mallet" Camaletti is a fictional character on Guiding Light. He has been portrayed by Robert Bogue from April 13, 2005 to September 18, 2009...

 but is confronted by the return of her ex-boyfriend hayne Lewis]. After adopting a son, Henry, with Mallet, it was soon revealed that Shayne and his girlfriend Lara were as the child's biological parents. After annulling his marriage to Dinah, who fled town to avoid being charged with the murder of a man she thought was Edmund Winslow, Shayne wanted to become a real father to his son. Since then Mallet left town, because he didn't want his son to have two fathers, and left Marina to raise their son Henry with Shayne. After divorcing Mallet, Marina is shown with Shayne parenting Henry, they are possibly married.

Family

Marina is the only child of Frank Cooper and Eleni Andros, who married the same day of Marina's birth. They separated in 2000 as their workalic personalities led them to drift apart. After Eleni's affair was discovered, they divorced; it was an event that Marina did not forgive her mother easily for. Though she moved away and lived with Eleni in Los Angeles

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 after her parents' break-up, she returned in December 2001 after running away from California

California

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. Though her parents considered re-uniting for Marina's sake, Eleni eventually left Springfield once more acquiescing to Marina's desire to live with her family, garnering extremely negative reaction from fans because of the characters unpopularity.

External links

• http://www.soapcentral.com/gl/whoswho/marina.php
• http://www.thepetitionsite.com/10/get-rid-of-mandy-bruno-on-guiding-light