Liza Colby

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Marcy Walker, in a still from the opening sequence of All My Children.

Liza Colby was a resident of the fictional city of Pine Valley, Pennsylvania on the soap opera All My Children. She is best known as having been played by actress Marcy Walker, although the role was also briefly played by Alice Haining.

Liza made her first appearance in 1982 as a snobbish teenager with a crush on Greg Nelson. However, Greg's heart belonged to Jenny Gardner. Liza engaged in numerous schemes to steal Greg from Jenny. Her two most heinous acts occurred at about the same time. Liza blackmailed Jenny, threatening to reveal to Greg that Jenny's father Ray Gardner was a convict, who had raped Ruth Martin years earlier. After Jenny's best friend Jesse Hubbard confronted her, Liza falsely accused him of attempted rape, subtly using old stereotypes about Black men and White women as a means of making her story credible. With Jenny humiliated and Jesse eager to avoid arrest, the two fled to New York, where they remained for weeks until Liza's accusations against Jesse were discredited.

After Liza failed in her schemes to win Greg, she started an affair with Tad Martin, Jenny's biological brother. However, Liza was crushed when she discovered Tad was sleeping with her mother, Marian Colby, behind her back.

Liza made a triumphant return to Pine Valley in the mid-90s. Now a strong careerwoman, Liza got revenge on Tad by seducing him into bed, breaking up the marriage of Tad and Dixie Cooney. Liza then moved on to Jake Martin, Tad's adopted brother. Liza then found herself in strange predicament when she got pregnant with what she thought was Jake's baby. In actuality, it was Adam Chandler's child, for Adam which Jake's sperm at the sperm bank with his. In May 1999, Liza gave birth to a daughter, Colby Marian Chandler, and eventually fell for Adam and married him. However, Adam's controlling nature and penchant for lying led to their divorce... and remarrying... and divorce.

Liza got the shock of her life in 2001 when Mia Saunders revealed herself to be her half-sister. Eventually, Liza & Mia formed a sisterly bond and Liza even finance the money to upstart Fusion, the new cosmetics company that Mia co-founded in late 2002 with Greenlee du Pres, Kendall Hart, & Simone Torres. In late 2004, Liza, with Tad's help, went on the run with Colby in tow. Her last appearance was in early 2005. However, Colby eventually returned (rapidly aged to her teenaged years) to Pine Valley to live with Adam. Thus far, she has exhibited all of Liza's worst character traits from the 80s, including consistent spoiled behavior, and a false statutory rape allegation against Erica Kane's son Josh Madden.