Skye Chandler
Skye Chandler is a fictional character from the ABC soap operas All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital. Initially portrayed by Antoinette Byron, the role was then portrayed by Robin Christopher for most of the next 25 years, with the exception of the mid-1990s, when Carrie Genzel portrayed the character.
After her final departure from All My Children in 1997, the character crossed over to One Life to Live, appearing for two years until 2001 when she joined General Hospital for another seven years until 2008. Christopher went on to reprise the role in 2010 and 2011, before returning once again on November 21, 2012.
Storylines
''All My Children''
Skye arrived in Pine Valley as a singer and it was discovered that she was Adam Chandler's daughter by his first wife. She became the protector of her uncle Stuart Chandler. She had an affair with Tad Martin before "settling down" and marrying Tom Cudahy. As part of an AIDS hate group, Skye discovered she was unwittingly responsible for funding a plot to burn down the house where AIDS victim Cindy Parker lived with her son, Scott. When she learned there was a chance Cindy could still be in the house, Skye broke down the door and braved the flames to rescue her. It turned out Cindy had taken sleeping pills rendering her unconscious and unable to save herself. After regaining consciousness, Cindy told Skye that Scott may still be in danger. Skye went back to check for the boy but instead ran in to the arsonist, who clubbed her over the head and left her for dead. She was soon rescued by Charlie Brent but as a result of the smoke and the blow to her skull, Skye fell into a coma for over three months. She regained consciousness, but upon doing so she learned that her husband Tom had grown quite fond of her friend and former boss, Barbara Montgomery. So, Skye decided to continue pretending to be in a coma, and began lurking through the secret passages in the Chandler mansion to spy on everyone. Eventually, she "awoke" from her coma, but then faked paralysis in a futile attempt to guilt Tom into stay with her. When she learned Tom and Barbara were still seeing each other, she kidnapped Barbara, an action that prompted Tom to have Skye committed to the Oak Haven sanitarium, where she flirted with fellow patient Travis Montgomery, though it didn't lead to anything serious.Skye's eventual release from Oak Haven was conditional on her resuming her residence in the Chandler mansion with her father, Adam. During that time, it was revealed that Adam had an affair with a young woman in his employ, Dixie Cooney, who was now pregnant with his son. When Skye confronted her father over his infidelity to his then wife Brooke, she came face to face with his obsession over having a male heir. She was wounded at first that her father could place such vital importance on the Chandler heir being male when he had a full grown healthy daughter right in front of him, but she tried her best to remain supportive, at least on the surface.
Adam's plan for a male Chandler heir necessitated his marriage to Dixie before the child's birth, to assure the heir's legitimacy. Skye, relatively fresh out of divorce from a loveless marriage to Tom, was fearful of watching her father trap himself in a similar situation. On the day of the wedding at the mansion, she made one last ditch effort to talk him out of going through with the nuptials, but ended up being banished from the ceremony. Distressed by her father's rejection, Skye ran out of the house and into a thunderstorm going on outside, soon enough being struck by lightning. Fortunately, Tad Martin witnessed the incident and was able to carry her out of the storm and into the house just as the wedding ceremony ended. Dr. Joe Martin was quickly called to tend to her and deemed Skye well enough to recover at the mansion. Grateful for her rescue, Skye became friends with Tad and a sometimes reluctant ally in his plan to break up Dixie's marriage to Adam before the baby could be born. Though Skye loved and was loyal to her father, she knew him well, and judged that once the baby was born he would get rid of his new wife one way or another.
Despite Tad's best efforts, Dixie eventually gave birth to Adam Chandler Jr. while still married to Adam. Skye was initially distant from her new little brother. Before he was born, she had confessed to Tad that she was even a little jealous of him. That jealousy soon turned to resentment when Adam completely forgot Skye's birthday on account of Adam Jr's christening, which was happening at the Chandler mansion the day after. Skye couldn't even stand to be in the same room as the baby and announced she would not be in attendance for the occasion. She instead went out and got so drunk that Tad had to bring her home. Upon their arrival, the christening was still going on. Skye immediately took the opportunity to go on a drunken tirade that culminated in a declaration to all in attendance that she hated the baby. Adam, in swift response, told her that she was no longer welcome under his roof. She went upstairs to pack her things and left with her friend, Nico Kelly.
That same night, Adam Jr was kidnapped and held for ransom. Skye quickly became one of the prime suspects on account of the scene she made at the christening. When Tad confronted her, she denied having anything to do with it. Other suspects were Sean Cudahy, Karen Parker, and Marcia the maid. However, during his investigation, Tad discovered the baby in Skye's motel room and she was arrested soon after. Just about everyone believed Skye was the kidnapper based on the incriminating evidence. Adam disowned her and refused to even take her phone calls from prison. Eventually, thanks to Tad, the real kidnapper was revealed to be Karen Parker, who was apprehended while attempting to flee the country with the ransom money. After Skye was released from prison, she was unable to forgive her family for believing she could kidnap her own brother and decided to leave town for a while.
Skye spent some time in New York, drowning her feelings in parties and alcohol before returning to Pine Valley where she soon took up with resident do-gooder, Jeremy Hunter. However her eternal feelings of inadequacy and not being able to live up to Jeremy's expectations led her to drink, and she became an alcoholic. After successfully overcoming her addiction, her father, Adam, concocted a plan to use Skye to spy on his old enemy Palmer Cortlandt. Adam wanted Skye to date Palmer's nephew Will and thereby learn corporate secrets that would allow him to destroy his rival. Little known to them Palmer had the same idea to use Will to gain information on Adam through Skye. Slowly, the two spies fell in love and convinced their families that no useful information could be gained by continuing this maneuver. Adam and Palmer then forbade them from seeing each other, forcing them to set up secret meetings. Eventually, both Adam and Palmer reluctantly accepted their relationship. However, when Will was suspected of poisoning Palmer, Skye admitted to Will that she wasn't sure whether or not he was telling the truth about having nothing to do with it, and broke off their relationship. Skye ignored Will's pleas for her to stay in Pine Valley and decided to move to Minnesota to work with recovering addicts..
In an "off screen" development, Skye left for New York City where she met and married the villainous Dr. Jonathan Kinder. Upon finding out that Kinder was using experimental drugs on, and subsequently killing, his patients, Skye planned to report Jonathan to the authorities. Kinder found out, drugged her, and locked her up. When Kinder came to Pine Valley, he brought Skye along with him and hid her in a mansion outside of town. In a twist of fate, fellow town pariah, Janet Green, was captured by Jonathan when she became suspicious of him when she was his secretary, and found that Skye was being held captive. Janet didn't know that Skye was Adam's daughter because she was going by the name Toni- presumably short for Antoinette. While Janet went for help, Skye stumbled onto the Marick Estate and the Hunting Lodge. On this particular night, Dimitri was having an affair with his sister-in-law, Maria.
Subsequent to her gained freedom, Skye was introduced to Edmund Grey. Skye remembered seeing Dimitri and Maria making love, and Skye developed a crush on Edmund. Skye's crush turned to obsession. She thought if she could split up Edmund and Maria, Edmund would be hers. Skye bribed a lab tech, got access to Maria's paternity test and changed the father's name from Edmund to Dimitri.
After the birth of Maria's baby, Maddie, Dimitri was still believed to be the father of the child. Edmund never gave in to Skye's advances and got back together with Maria to raise Maddie. Skye made a promise to herself to tell Edmund that the baby was his. She tried telling him, but she just couldn't bring herself to say it, so she wrote it in a letter and sent it to Maria. Maria did not read it until she was on a plane on her way back to Pine Valley. Maria never got the chance to tell Edmund the good news; the plane crashed and Maria was killed. After Edmund returned home from the hospital, Skye devoted her time to helping him out. Little did she know that he was losing his hearing from time to time. Every time she tried to tell him about the paternity test, he couldn't hear her. Dimitri ended up suing Edmund for custody of Maddie and won. Dimitri took Maddie to the hospital for a check up and found out that Maddie's blood type was different than his; Maddie could not be his biological daughter. Dimitri found out that Skye had changed the paternity test and threatened to kill Skye if she told Edmund about the results swap. Dimitri ended up taking Maddie to Vadzel, his family castle in Budapest. While in prison, Erica revealed that Skye was up to something and she did everything in her power to find out what it was she was doing. Skye confessed that she'd switched the results. Edmund was crushed. He couldn't believe that he'd taken Skye into his life. Skye enlisted the help of her father, Adam, to help her make a clean escape from Pine Valley. Adam urged her to stick around and fight to clear her name. She didn't have the strength to fight and seemingly vanished into thin air-with the help of her dear ole dad.