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Chandler family
The Chandler family is a fictional family from the ABC with and marrying Skye’s uncle Stuart
soap opera All My Children. The Chandler family is one Chandler (David Canary), who adopts Scott.
of the most powerful and wealthiest families in daytime
television history. Rising up from poverty in Pigeon Hol- m. Annie Lavery (2010-2010)
low, the Chandlers now stand as the prominent family in
a. Marissa Tasker (one night stand)
Pine Valley. The family runs Chandler Enterprises.
Stuart Chandler Adam Chandler
Stuart’s younger twin brother; Charlotte’s brother.
Adam’s older twin brother; Charlotte’s brother.
Adam Chandler, Sr. is a fictional character
Stuart was the identical twin brother to
from the daytime drama All My Children,
wealthy businessman, Adam Chandler.
portrayed by David Canary since 1983. The
However, Stuart was deliberately played to be
character was shown to rise from his humble
Adam’s exact opposite in personality: while
beginnings in the small town of Pigeon
Adam is ruthless, unethical, and domineering,
Hollow, West Virginia to become one of the
Stuart was kind, generous, and honest. This
wealthiest men in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania.
was also reflected in their physical
The series details other characters
appearances: Adam always wears a business
considering him to be one of the most
suit and keeps his hair slick and neat, while
devious individuals within town. His business
Stuart wore colorful cardigans with slacks
dealings have been witnessed to get him in
and had rumbled hair. Stuart often served as
severe trouble. He was given a close
his brother’s conscience, attempting to sway
relationship with his family and especially to
Adam from some of his more heartless
his identical twin brother Stuart by the
schemes.
series.
m. Joanna Yaegar
m. Althea Patterson
m. Cindy Parker
m. Erica Kane
m. Marian Colby
m. Brooke English
c. Scott Chandler m. Dixie Cooney
Scott is Cindy Parker’s son with Fred Parker, adopted by Stuart.
He is the nephew of Adam. m. Natalie Marlowe
Scott is the son of Fred Parker and his wife
m. Erica Kane
Cindy (Ellen Wheeler). Fred was an
intravenous drug user; and, through the m. Gloria Marsh
sharing of needles, he contracted the HIV
virus, which resulted in his death from AIDS. m. Liza Colby
In 1988, Cindy is befriended by Jesse and
Angie Hubbard, who take her and Scott into m. Arlene Dillon
their home. Scott becomes best friends with
Jesse and Angie’s son Frankie, and the m. Liza Colby
Hubbards are Cindy’s closest supporters
m. Krystal Carey
when she develops AIDS herself. Cindy is
ostracized by many Pine Valley residents, m. Annie Novak
including Skye Chandler (Robin Christopher),
Enid Nelson (Natalie Ross), and a hate group c. Skye Chandler Quartermaine
that sets fire to the Hubbard home. Cindy
Skye is the biological daughter of Rae Cummings and the adopt-
would later die but not before falling in love
ed daughter of Alan Quartermaine. She was adopted by Althea
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Chandler who for years lied to Adam who believed she was his Character Hayley Vaughan arrives in Pine
daughter. Valley on Thanksgiving Day 1990. She
On All My Children, Skye arrived in Pine appears in punk style, with her hair dyed jet
Valley as a singer and it was discovered that black in a Cassandra Peterson/Elvira hairdo
she was Adam Chandler’s daughter by his and matching makeup. She crashes her uncle
first wife, Althea Patterson Chandler. Adam Trevor Dillon and Natalie Dillon’s party and
abandoned Skye and her mother when she announces that she is staying with them. Her
was five. Skye’s mother, Althea, was mentally mother, Arlene Vaughan, soon follows and it
ill and gave her little attention. She returned is revealed that Hayley had spent a miserable
to Pine Valley as a troubled woman who childhood playing caretaker to her alcoholic
desperately wanted her father Adam’s love mother. Hayley changes her career, becoming
and attention. Skye showed up in Llanview in the host of a television style show called
July 1999 at the request of Asa Buchanan.Skye "Wave." Life takes an unexpected turn in late
got some unexpected support from police 2002 when Hayley is told that there is an
detective John Sykes, who was dating Gretel interest in syndicating her Wave talk show.
Rae Cummings and had learned that Skye was Hayley does not want to take the job offer
Rae’s daughter. Skye who realized Adam because it will mean relocating to California.
Chandler wasn’t her father after all,asked Rae She and Mateo bicker back and forth for a bit
who her father was, but Rae refused to tell before eventually agreeing to leave Pine
her until she talked to him first. So when Valley.
Skye overheard that Rae was going to Port
Charles to tell her father about her, she m. Will Cortlandt
jumped on a plane and got there first.It was
m. Alec McIntyre
later discovered that Alan Quartermaine was
not her biological father after all. In 2008, she m. Mateo Santos
and Lila Rae left Port Charles to live
somewhere where no one knows of her or her m. Mateo Santos
past.
c. Lorenzo Santos
c. Lila Rae Alcazar "Enzo" is the son of Haley and Mateo Santos.
Lila Rae Alcazar is the daughter of Skye The grandson of Adam.
Chandler Quartermaine and Lorenzo On February 21, 2001, Hayley
Alcazar. She is the granddaughter of Adam. learns from a psychic visiting
During her pregnancy, Skye fears Wave that she is pregnant.On
having a gangster’s child and flees August 29, 2001, Hayley delivers a
town with the help of Robert healthy baby boy,after some brief
Scorpio. Close to her due date, complications.Enzo has a paternal
Skye calls her adoptive half-brother Max Santos.
grandfather, Edward
Quartermaine; and the call is c. JR Chandler
traced by Alcazar. He finds his way JR is the son of Adam Chandler and Dixie Cooney-Martin.
to Skye but is tied to a chair by As the son of Adam Chandler and the great
Robert and Luke Spencer. Skye nephew of Palmer Cortlandt, JR binds the two
goes into labor, and Luke unties longtime enemies to each other for life (as
Alcazar. Skye returns to Port does his rarely-seen older cousin, Ross
Charles, and she and Alcazar soon Chandler).A top television anti-hero as well
reconcile. Lila’s last name is as one of its prominent bad boys, JR is a
changed to Alcazar, but months varying combination of angst. The character
later Alcazar is murdered. Over a has battled a drug problem during his
period of time, Skye chooses to teenage years, and has since strived to
take Lila Rae and leave Port overcome his alcohol addiction. His romantic
Charles, to start over elsewhere life has been tumultuous as well, as his true
love and ex-wife Babe Carey has been both
c. Hayley Vaughan Santos his lover and enemy and was killed due to
Hayley is the daughter of Adam Chandler and Arlene Dillon. injuries caused by a tornado.A father to son
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Adam Chandler III, latest heir to the Chandler never shows leaving J. R. to die. His brother,
fortune, the writers scripted JR as Asher shows up in Pine Valley in 2010.
consistently being someone his child can rely
on. With loyalty important to him, he can be c. Colby Marian Chandler
deadly if betrayed. His ruthlessness is Colby is the daughter of Liza Colby and Adam Chandler.
characterized as a result of his difficult Colby was born in 1999 to Liza Colby, who had
childhood. The writers incorporated a caring decided to have a child via artificial
side to JR to gauge his resistance to the dark insemination. Liza chose Dr. Jake Martin to be
nature of his inner turmoil. The complexity the sperm donor/father of her child;
of the character has contributed to JR being however, Liza’s ex-husband, Adam Chandler,
described as one of the most intriguing and was jealous of this arrangement and secretly
tortured characters in daytime television. purchased the sperm bank and substituted
his own sperm donation for Jake’s, thus
m. Babe Carey
making him Colby’s biological father. At the
m. Babe Carey time of Colby’s birth, both Liza and Jake
believed that Jake was her father and, thus,
m. Babe Carey the child was originally named "Colby Marian
Martin." In 2000, it was revealed that Adam
m. Marissa Tasker was actually Colby’s biological father when
Jake sued for custody of the child.In 2006 a
a. Annie Lavery (having an affair with her)
rebellious Colby Chandler, then incognito,
shows up in Pine Valley. She steals a car and
c. Adam Chandler III
gets arrested, refusing to give the authorities
AJ is the son of JR Chandler and Babe her name. She makes a phone call and is
Carey.He is Adams grandson. revealed to be Adam Chandler’s long lost
Adam Chandler III, often referred daughter (aged by several years). She ran
to as Little Adam or Little A, is a away from her mother, Liza Colby after years
fictional character from the soap in hiding.
opera All My Children. He is the
son of JR Chandler and Babe Carey
Chandler. The character appeared Charlotte "Lottie" Chandler
on ABC’s One Life to Live from Charlotte is the sister of identical twins Stuart and Adam chan-
2004 to 2005 during a "baby dler.
switch" storyline involving both Charlotte, called "Lottie" by her brothers, was
seriesBabe and JR wage their own born and raised in Pigeon hollow, West
custody battle over their son, now Virginia. While in her late teens she became
named Adam Chandler III. At one romanticly involved with a young local boy
point Babe goes on the run with named Pete Cooney. Lottie’s relationship
JR’s former stepbrother Jamie with Pete Cooney ended when Cooney was
Martin, giving her son the alias drafted into the military and shipped off to
James Carey. He is often referred Europe. Soon after Cooney’s departure, Lottie
to as "Little Adam" ,"Little A" or found that she was pregnant with his child.
"AJ" by his parents. When the baby was born, she named him
Ross. As Lottie’s letters to Pete Cooney never
Annie Lavery reached him and as he did not return to
Pigeon Hollow after the war, it was many
c. Miguel Reyes years until Cooney, then known as Palmer
Miguel is the son of Adam Chandler and Sonia Reyes. Courtland, learned of Charlotte’s pregnancy
Miguel is conceived during a one-night-stand and the birth of his son. Charlotte, weighed
with Sonia Reyes. Adam doesn’t learn of him down by feelings of rejection and shame,
until he is older and by then Sonia wants him committed suicide a few years after Ross’
to have nothing to do with Miguel. When JR birth.
Chandler is diagnosed with Leukemia, Adam
has Tad Martin track Miguel down to give
bone marrow. Miguel agrees but then he
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c. Ross Chandler In January 1986, shy teen Julie
Rand is adopted by Ross Chandler
Ross is the son of Lottie Chandler and Palmer Cortlandt. He was
and his wife Ellen. Julie began
raised by Adam, his uncle, after his mothers suicide.
dating Martin grandson, Charlie
Ross Chandler is a significant character from
Brent. Julie discovered that her
the canvas of All My Children, for it is his
birth parents were Elizabeth
birth that led the feud between two of Pine
Carlyle and Mark Dalton, Ellen’s
Valley’s wealthiest men, Palmer Cortlandt
ex-husband. The devastating truth
and Adam Chandler. The Cooneys and
was that Elizabeth gave her up
Chandlers were two working-class families in
because she was a hooker. While
Pigeon Hollow, West Virginia. Ross was then
in New York she befriended Creed
raised by his uncle Adam. Extremely bitter
Kelly who seemed genuine but was
after Lottie’s death, Adam raised Ross to hate
only using Julie to get back at
Pete Cooney, who eventually changed his
Elizabeth, an old enemy of his.
name to Palmer Cortlandt. Ross married Ellen
Julie also got close to Nico, Creed’s
Sheppard, while Ross and Ellen were married
nephew.Nico knew his uncle
they adopted a teenage Julie Rand. Ellen
planned to rape Julie in front of
eventually learned of Ross’s infidelity and
her mother, Elizabeth and stepped
divorced him and moved out. In the mean
in to save Julie. Grateful that Nico
time Natalie rejected Ross, and accepted
saved her from Creed’s vengeful
Palmers’s marriage proposal. Angry that he
plans, the two fell in love.Julie
was spurned by Natalie, he barged into her
eventually came back to Pine
room and raped her, his daughter Julie heard
Valley to confront Ross about
Natalie’s screams and thus Ross was
Natalie’s rape. Julie then officially
convicted. Ross was sent to prison, but there
ended things Charlie. Soon Nico
he realized what he had done and repented
was released from jail and the
and mended fences with his loved ones, when
couple were wed. Unfortunately,
he was let out of jail he left Pine Valley and
the mayor who performed the
hasn’t returned since.
ceremony was not licensed to
m. Cynthia Preston officiate weddings so it was not
legal.
m. Ellen Tucker
c. Julie Rand Chandler External links
Julie is the biological daughter of Mark • SoapCentral
Dalton and Elizabeth Carlyle, she was • Official ABC page
adopted by Ross and Ellen Chandler.She is
the great-niece of Adam and Stuart. References
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