Jump to content

Sami Brady Roberts

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by KrazyC (talk | contribs) at 01:58, 22 August 2007 (→Flings and romantic relationships). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Samantha Gene Brady Roberts
File:Sami 1.jpg
First appearanceOctober 16, 1984
Portrayed byRonit Aranoff (1984)
Lauren Ann Bundy (1985)
Jessica Davis (1985-86)
Tiffany Nicole Palma (1986)
Ashleigh Blair Sterling (1986-90)
Christina Wagoner (1990-92)
Alison Sweeney (1993-present)
Dan Wells (2005; when Sami was Stan)
In-universe information
NicknameSami
GenderFemale
FamilyRoman Brady (father)
Marlena Evans (mother)
Eric Brady (twin brother)
Belle Black (maternal half-sister)
Rex Brady (paternal half-brother)
Cassie Brady (paternal half-sister)
SpouseAustin Reed (annulled)
Brandon Walker (annulled)
Lucas Roberts (2007-present)
ChildrenWill Roberts (son with Lucas)
Expecting twins in Late 2007

Samantha Gene "Sami" Brady Roberts (formerly Reed and Walker; born October 16, 1977) is a fictional villainess on the television drama Days of our Lives.

Since early 1993, the role of Sami has been played by actress Alison Sweeney. On Days, Sami has come to epitomize the "soap bitch" through her scheming and lying temperament. Indeed, for most of her time on the show, she has been showcased as the primary female schemer.

Fictional history

Sami's parents are Dr. Marlena Evans and Roman Brady. She was born on the program in October 1984, and was named after Marlena's late twin sister, Samantha. Her middle name, Gene, comes from Marlena's friend, Eugene Bradford. Sami has a twin brother, Eric Brady, who hasn't been seen for many years.

In 1992, the twins were sent to live in Colorado after her mother disappeared. When Sami returned to town rapidly aged in early 1993, she quickly attached herself to Austin Reed, who was her older sister Carrie's boyfriend. Also early in her stay, she witnessed her mother make love to John Black on top of the conference table at Titan Publishing. Sami was immediately crushed, and became alienated from John and her mother. She vowed to protect her father at all costs from finding out the truth. When Marlena found herself pregnant, Sami confided in her friend Jamie Caldwell. To forget about her pain, she actively pursued Austin Reed.

When Lucas Roberts first came to town, he was instantly attracted to Sami's older sister Carrie. In an attempt to break up the couple, Lucas and Sami started to date in order to make them jealous. It did not work.

Sami was a candy-striper at the hospital in Salem, and quickly found out how to read a blood test. Sami concluded that Marlena's baby was John's and not Roman's, so she switched the blood test results so her father would not have to hurt.

Around this time, Sami met a model, Brandee, who kept her thin figure by means of bulimia. Sami thought that if she binged and purged, Austin would see how thin and beautiful she was, and that he would love her. She eventually hired Brandee to flirt with Austin, which culminated in a kiss witnessed by Carrie. Austin and Carrie broke up, and while Sami was happy, she began to feel guilty about hurting her sister. At this time Sami stopped trying to get Austin for herself, but was still bulimic. Now she didn't want to be thin for somebody else; she wanted it for herself, at any cost.

By this time, Marlena had given birth to a daughter, Isabella, or "Belle" for short. When Sami overheard that there were to be new blood tests on the child, she panicked and kidnapped the baby. She made arrangements to live at Jamie Caldwell's temporarily so she could find a couple to adopt the baby via the black market. John found out just in time and thwarted her plans. Scared, Sami booked a flight to Florida and tried to flee with Belle, but John caught her before she could board. When Roman found out about the kidnapping, he ordered Sami into counseling at the hospital. However, Belle never received another blood test, so Roman did not know Belle wasn't his child.

Marlena found out about Sami's bulimia and confronted her; in turn, Sami told Marlena that not only did she see her and John make love at Titan that night, she also knew Belle was not Roman's child. Marlena tried to comfort her daughter but she would have no part in it. Sami said she would promise her mother not to tell Roman about Belle, not because she wanted to aid Marlena, but because she didn't want to hurt her father.

On the day of Belle's christening, Marlena admitted that she had an affair with John. Stefano DiMera overheard Sami talking to Jamie about the affair, so he broke into her locker at the hospital, stole her diary, photocopied the pages in which Sami wrote about the affair, and showed them to Roman. When confronted, Sami admitted that it was all true; Roman left Marlena.

Eventually, an older friend of Carrie's, Alan Harris, showed interest in Sami. He was a bad influence on her, getting her drunk at college parties (she was only 15 at the time). One night, she offered to cook him dinner, and he asked her to pose for some "sexy pictures." When he asked her to take off her clothes, she refused; he got angry with her and raped her. Ashamed, Sami told no one, but got a pregnancy and AIDS test in secret. Both came back negative.

Sami tried to keep the fact that she was raped to herself but Lucas noticed she was upset about something and, concerned, pushed her to tell him what was going on. Eventually, she confessed to Lucas what Alan did to her. She begged him not to tell anyone but in the interest of her wellbeing, he told Carrie who convinced Sami to press charges.

Since Sami had waited a long time, there was no more physical evidence, and in two trials, the case was dismissed. Sami became a pariah at school, and no one would talk to her except for Jamie. In addition, a tabloid magazine printed a story calling Sami a liar. Humiliated, she distanced herself from Marlena and slapped Carrie's face. She blamed Carrie for her situation as Carrie had pushed her to press charges and then had been forced to testify in Alan's defense - she had to discuss Sami's kidnapping of Belle and Sami dating Alan behind her parents' backs. Sami became intent on making her sister pay for her shame.

Sami tried to lure Austin away from Carrie yet again, under the guise of playing the innocent victim. She set up what looked like another attack from Alan; Jamie called Austin, who rescued her and immediately took pity on her. Lucas, who had since tried to join forces with Sami, was disgusted and disowned her. Carrie suspected that Sami was crying wolf and refused to give him a telephone message from Sami, who was down at the docks. Alan had also found out that Sami was crying wolf, so he appeared at the pier that night with a gun, intent on raping her once again. Sami and Alan struggled with the gun and she managed to seize control of the pistol. Alan taunted her, saying she didn't have the guts to shoot him. Sami pulled the trigger and shot him in the groin. The tabloids got wind of the story and published an exposé with the headline "Sami Brady Bobbittizes Alan Harris!"

Sami suffered public ridicule because of the exposé and after being hassled and doused with beer by some men in a bar, Lucas took her to the photo lab at Titan to get her new clothes and comfort her. After reassuring her that she wasn't worthless and that he cared a great deal for her, the two make love and, unbeknownst to them at the time, conceive their son Will.

Before Alan left town, he told Carrie that Sami had been crying wolf the whole time. Furious, Carrie slapped Sami's face; Austin walked in, became angry with Carrie, and broke up with her. Sensing opportunity, Sami befriended a nurse who spoke of a drug that could make a man totally out of it but still allow him to perform sexually. While Austin was out partying with friends, Sami drugged a beer at his apartment, had him drink it, and had him make love to her. Sami was wearing Carrie's perfume so Austin had assumed, in his drunken/drugged state, that he was having sex with Carrie. In the morning, Austin was horrified. Sami told him that he had confessed his love to her but he told her that was not true. Austin swore Sami to secrecy that she would not tell Carrie about that night.

Marlena, ill in the hospital with anemia, told Sami to sleep with Austin again (in reality, at this time, Marlena had become possessed by the devil). When Sami tried to seduce Austin, he made it clear that he only liked Sami as a friend. Ashamed, Sami informed Jamie that she was leaving town, and boarded a train for Los Angeles. Sami was missing for many months, and came back the day of Carrie and Austin's wedding (they had since reconciled). She was waiting to object to the marriage during the ceremony, but Mickey Horton found her and announced to everyone that she was alive. Sami pretended to faint and informed Carrie that Austin had slept with her, and now she was "carrying his child", unaware that Lucas, not Austin, had fathered her child. Carrie became very angry with Austin, and she called the wedding off.

After the birth of Will and the reveal that he was Lucas's son due to their one night of lovemaking in the photo lab, Sami and Austin parted ways and she became engaged to Franco Kelly. On the night of their wedding Sami found out Franco had cheated on her with a stripper and declared "I'm going to kill him." Later, Sami found Franco's body, shot dead. She then fainted and subsequently was unable to remember discovering Franco's body. Lucas had actually killed him in Kate's defense, but Kate planted the gun on Sami and thus Sami was convicted and sentenced to death. While strapped to the table, moments away from receiving lethal injection, it was revealed that Sami did not kill Franco. She was eventually cleared and released. Kate had arranged for a terminally ill criminal to take the blame, and although Sami eventually learned the truth, Salem at large does not know that Lucas was responsible for Franco's death.

Sami became engaged to Brandon Walker and with his help regained full custody of Will; before Sami regained custody, it was Kate who convinced Lucas to take him away from Sami.

Sami was engaged to Lucas Roberts in 2004 and they planned to marry. Because Kate Roberts drugged her and with the help of Eugenia put her in bed with Brandon, Lucas walked in and assumed the worst. The engagement was called off, then Sami dressed like a man, "Stan" to prove her innocence (actually covering for Alison Sweeney, who was on maternity leave), but in the process, she managed to do several misdeeds and was unknowingly working for Tony DiMera. Eventually, she was able to prove that Kate was lying and Lucas proposed to her again. At their wedding, Kate exposed Sami's secret and Sami was once again alone. Austin gave her a shoulder to cry on and Sami believed that she was falling in love with Austin again. However, she also knew that Carrie was his true love and she herself still pined for Lucas. Eventually, Carrie reappeared, an executive in charge of her own company, HighStyle, which Austin intended to buy out, unaware that Carrie was running it. Sami, working for Austin at the time, manipulated circumstances to ensure that Austin would not find out Carrie was in charge of the company until after the buyout. Lucas, Austin's business rival at this time, also intended to buy out the company, but backed off after learning Carrie was in charge of HighStyle, and deliberately did not warn Austin that Carrie was running HighStyle, knowing, like Sami, Austin would buy out the company and that would cause Carrie to hate him. This would allow Lucas to be with Carrie and Sami with Austin. One day when Carrie was admitted to the hospital, Sami blackmailed Lexie. She threatened to tell Abe about Lexie's affair with Tek if she didn't come up with some reason why Carrie can't be with Austin. Lexie soon told Carrie that any child that she and Austin would conceive would have congenital defects, driving Carrie to pick Lucas over Austin.

Sami was eventually with Austin and shortly after he popped the question to her, she and Austin received a new neighbor, an English race car driver named E.J. Wells, who was immediately smitten with Sami. They soon developed a close friendship and a guilty Sami confided in E.J. regarding her secret, after receiving several notes and calls from a mysterious gloved hand. She received one the day she was to marry Austin, but called it off to avoid humiliation. E.J. comforted her and they kissed for the first time. The next day, Will didn't show up for school and due to a phone call presumably from 'the gloved hand', Sami feared that he was kidnapped, so she told Lucas, Austin and Carrie about the notes she received (but not the reasoning behind it). Sami and Lucas went on TV, courtesy of Mythic Communications, to plea to the child abductor to return Will to safety. However, Will came home and revealed that he actually ran away from home to avoid embarrassment at school after Sami's latest wedding disaster. Realizing that Will needed a stable environment, Lucas and Will moved in with Sami (while Will was gone, Lucas discovered that Carrie was cheating on him with Austin and the two were separated).

Soon enough, the infamous gloved hand slid another note under Sami's door and despite her efforts to keep it to herself, Lucas picked it up and discovered the truth about Sami's blackmail. She and Carrie got into a fight and Carrie swore to tell everyone about this sick deed. Lucas and Will moved out again and her entire family abandoned her. She found comfort once again with E.J.

Unknown to Sami, E.J. came to Salem to bring grief to the "good people of Salem" (especially the Bradys) as well as in cahoots with Kate, whom he actually slept with. In his conversations with Kate, it was also revealed that he was simply trying to seduce Sami on Kate's behalf, to keep her away from Kate's sons, Lucas and Austin. However, E.J. also told Kate that he wanted Sami to conceive his child because he is very concerned with lineage and believes that Sami is the perfect woman to continue his family line. It is eventually revealed to viewers that E.J. is in fact Elvis DiMera Jr. and is presumably behind the gloved hand crimes.

Sami and E.J. have a couple of dates but at the same time Lucas is making moves toward a reconciliation. After Sami found out that E.J. was sleeping with Kate, she broke off any involvement with him. But Sami was forced to act like she was interested in E.J. again on her uncle Bo's request because the police were conducting a search on E.J.'s apartment. E.J. assumed that she wanted to continue their relationship but Sami wanted to try things out with Lucas again. This led to a near rape situation until Lucas arrived on the scene and forced E.J. to leave.

By this point, it had long ago become clear to all but Sami and Lucas themselves, and a few parties such as Kate, who couldn't stand Sami, and E.J., who wanted Sami for himself that Sami and Lucas were perfect for each other. Of course, things seldom run smoothly for a couple or a potential couple in a soap opera, and Sami's romances tend to run over even more bumps in the road than the usual soap opera romances. Nevertheless, the fact that the two share a child together was a major factor always tying them together. Sami and Lucas rekindled their love in spite of Kate and began working slowly to rebuild it.

Sami and Lucas decided to go away on a romantic trip. After their car broke down they went to an abandoned cabin. The two made love for the first time in over a year. Soon after they were talking about their future when the roof caved in and trapped Lucas in the rubble. Sami tried desperately to help him, but she couldn't lift the beam. She decided to go find help. Unfortunately Sami found help, E.J. Wells was on the run after having shot Sami's stepfather John Black. E.J. held a gun to Sami and told her she had to get him past the police. E.J. was upset with Sami for luring him into the trap set by John Black and the police. After Sami got E.J. past the police, she begged him to help her with Lucas. E.J. told Sami that the only way he would help her was if she slept with him.

E.J. informed Sami that his father Stefano had instructed him to plant the Dimera seed in a Brady woman. Sami was disgusted by E.J.'s request, immediately calling it rape, and cursed him. In the end Sami realized that she had no choice but to agree to E.J.'s physical coercion. Because Lucas's life was at risk, Sami had no choice but to allow E.J. force himself on her. E.J. frequently refers to it as their night of love. But Sami refers to it as rape.

After the incident, a gleeful E.J. taunted Sami and told her she was incredible and that he would remember her always. He said that he might have to tell Lucas about their little tryst. Sami viciously slapped E.J. and told him to never speak of this again, saying she would find a way to live with what he did to her. After threats were exchanged, E.J. finally accompanied Sami to the cabin and saved Lucas' life. He then forced a kiss on Sami, threatened her again, and then left.

On January 23, 2007, Sami told Lucas that she was pregnant, leaving out the fact that he might not be the father.

Sami and Lucas finally took their marriage vows on May 9, 2007. Part of Sami's secret came out when E.J. arranged for a picture of himself and Sami speeding in Lexie's car the night John was shot and when E.J. forced Sami to let him have sex with her to be displayed in the middle of Lucas and Sami's wedding reception. Lucas stood by Sami, and after returning to their apartment Sami admitted the truth to Lucas about the rape and that the baby may not be his. Lucas blamed himself for Sami not trusting him enough to tell him what had happened to her and tearfully apologized. He tells Sami he will stand by her and the baby regardless of paternity and the two make love, consummating their marriage. Later, E.J. tells Lucas of Sami drugging Lucas and then attempting to kill him (E.J.) in the cabin fire and, though Lucas is upset about the drugging, once again stands by Sami.

While on honeymoon, in New Orleans, Sami realized that the house she and Lucas had been repairing, is Maison Blanche, which belongs to the DiMeras.

Celeste performed a voodoo ritual and declares that E.J is the father of Sami's baby. Tony DiMera and E.J. are now attempting to steal the unborn child's stem cells, in order to save Stefano DiMera, but it appears that E.J. may have a change of heart.

It was recently revealed that Sami looks exactly like her great-aunt Colleen Brady, who had a love affair with Stefano DiMera's father Santo. Santo looked exactly like his grandson, E.J. Wells. Stefano agreed to end the Dimera feud with the Brady family if Sami and E.J. wed (claiming the fact that Sami is already married is "of no consequence" to him) but Sami adamantly refused.

On June 25, 2007, it was revealed that Sami is going to have twins.

Later,when Lucas and Sami are in the safe house.Sami and Lucas wanted to name the babies.Sami wanted to name the boy named Tom and the girl named Colleen.

During an amnio test to establish paternity of her child, Sami discovered she was having twins. Oblivious to the fact the DNA report was falsified (no DNA test had been run at the time), Sami believed that E.J. was the father of both of her babies, a boy and a girl.

Later,Sami is kidnapped by Stefano DiMera to get Sami's babies' stem cells. As Stefano and his doctor are about to carry out the procedure on Stefano's private jet, Stefano's henchman Bart comes in to tell them to stop. According to a medical chart he declares that EJ is not the father and the stem cells are therefore not a match for Stefano. Upon review of the chart, Stefano's doctor, Dr. Rolf, confirms that "there is another father". Stefano dumps Sami at a motel somewhere in Salem after the revelation.

On July 31 2007, it was revealed by Nick Fallon that E.J. isn't the father of Sami's babies; Lucas is. Nick tells Lucas and Sami that he rushed the first test and that's why it was in error (the truth was that he had created a false DNA report without ever running a test under pressure from Lucas' mother, Kate Roberts, who has virtually always been at odds with Sami).

Family and relationships

Parents

Sibling(s)

Marital status

Past marriage(s)

Children

Grandparents

  • Shawn Brady (paternal grandfather)
  • Caroline Brady (paternal grandmother)
  • Frank Evans (maternal grandfather)
  • Martha Evans (maternal grandmother)

Great-grandparents

  • Peter Brady (great-grandfather, via Shawn; deceased)

Great-great-grandparents

  • Patrick Brady (great-great-grandfather, via Peter)
  • Nora Brady (great-great-grandmother, via Peter)

Uncles and aunts

Cousins

Nephews and nieces

  • Claire Brady (maternal half-niece/paternal first half-cousin once removed)

Other relatives

  • Colleen Brady (great-aunt, via Peter; deceased)
  • Eric Brady (great-uncle, via Peter)
  • Molly Brady (great-aunt, via Peter
  • Robert Evans (great-uncle; Frank's brother)
  • Colin Murphy (first cousin once removed, via Molly)
  • Trista Evans (first cousin once removed, via Robert)

Flings and romantic relationships

Other

  • Alan Harris (he raped her)
  • Austin Reed (she tricked him to have sex with her)
  • EJ Wells (forced sex)

See also

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sami_Brady_Roberts&oldid=152824886"