Samantha Anderson is a resident of Oakdale

Oakdale (As the World Turns)

Oakdale is the setting of the television soap opera As the World Turns.-Location:For many years, the writers have been firm on placing the city in the state of Illinois. By all indications, the city is unrelated to the real Oakdale, Illinois. However, show creator Irna Phillips may have modeled her...

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United States

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 TV soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

, As the World Turns

As the World Turns

As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...

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Character history

Samantha Markham is the twin sister of Royce Keller but was given up for adoption. She became interested in, Eliot Markham (AKA: Art of the con). When she met Lucinda she realized they were sisters and Lucinda welcomed her. When staying at Lucinda's mansion she stole her prize Pissarro and replace it with a fake and was later arrested but released because lack of evidence. Later Samantha became friends with Kirk Anderson

Kirk Anderson

Kirk Anderson is a resident of Oakdale on the American TV soap opera, As the World Turns.- Character history :He was hired at Walsh Enterprises. He became attracted to Iva Snyder. His first assignment for Lucinda Walsh was to get the Snyder Farm. While Kirt wanted to kisse Iva, she didn't want him...

. They were playing to get married to get Lucinda's money and her business. Shortly after they were married Kirk disappeared in the ocean. Samantha become friends with her former fiancée, Scott Eldridge.

The police thought Samantha pushed Kirk overboard but later her returned to town and they were married. Kirk was doing business with a double crosser, Umberto Malzone. Kirk wanted to murder him and when Samantha found up he took her hostage. James Stenbeck shot him and he went to jail. Samantha told him she'd help get him out of jail if he helped her. When he was released he tried to get Worldwide from Lucinda. He ended up working for her. Eventually they disappeared on a pier.