Emma Drake

**Emma Grace Scorpio-Drake** is a character on the ABC daytime soap opera *General Hospital*. She is the daughter of Dr. Patrick Drake and his wife, Dr. Robin Scorpio-Drake.

She was born onscreen on November 4, 2008.

Emma is seen as a miracle child because she was conceived naturally, even though her mother, Robin is HIV-positive and despite that, her father, Patrick wasn't infected when she was conceived.

## Casting

* Early years
* Silzer
* Ortega

Twins Ruby and Rose Romero portrayed Emma from her birth in November 2008 to February 18, 2009.

Twins Gianna and Jessie Salvatierra portrayed Emma from March 3, 2009 to December 22, 2010. They don't appear in 2011.

Francesca Cistone portrayed Emma in five episodes: March 23, 30 & 31, May 23, and June 8, 2011.

Brooklyn Rae Silzer portrayed Emma from July 29, 2011 to January 7, 2016, when she left the show with her onscreen parents, Jason Thompson (then Patrick Drake) and Kimberly McCullough (Robin Scorpio-Drake). Silzer returned on March 31, 2016 before her onscreen father Jason Thompson has been replaced by his counterpart James Patrick Stuart (Valentin Cassadine) later in the year as well as her onscreen mother replaced by her blonde counterpart Maura West (Ava Jerome).

Silzer has returned multiple times after her last appearance and later since replaced by her onscreen counterpart Scarlett Fernandez (Charlotte Cassadine). She was last seen in May 2017 and later replaced by her onscreen friend and counterpart Scarlett.

On August 4, 2017; it was announced that Silzer and her onscreen grandma Finola Hughes (Anna Devane) will be returning on August 17 before being replaced by Scarlett.

On April 4, 2018; it was confirmed that Silzer would return to *GH* when Emma visits her grandmother in Port Charles. She returned on April 11, 2018 and appeared until April 18, 2018, however she later returned again with Kimberly McCullough (Robin) in May for the 2018 Nurse's Ball.

On November 28, 2018; it was confirmed that Silzer would return to *GH* for the holidays. She returned for only one episode on December 27, 2018 before being replaced by Coby Ryan McLaughlin (Hank Archer, aka "Shiloh" who bores a striking resemblance to the late Nathan West (Ryan Paevey)).

On January 22, 2020; Soaps.com confirmed that Silzer would return to *GH* as Emma. She returned from February 6 to February 12, 2020.

On March 29, 2023; Silzer returned as Emma for Epiphany's tribute episode before being the character is replaced by Charlotte again the same time that Parry Shen (Brad Cooper) dropped off the canvas and later since replaced by James Patrick Stuart.

Jenna Ortega who is best known for her roles of young Jane in The CW comedy-drama series *Jane the Virgin* and Wednesday Addams in the Netflix series Wednesday is recast as Emma Drake who is at the exact age as Emma is attending the University of California in Berkeley.

She made her debut as Emma on November 23, 2023 after being replaced by Charlotte eight months later.
## Storylines

* 2008-09
* 2010-11
* 2012-13
* 2016-17
* 2018-23

Emma was born onscreen November 4, 2008 to Drs. Patrick Drake and Robin Scorpio-Drake. Robin and Patrick set their wedding date for October 29, 2008, but Patrick gets held up at the hospital. When he finally shows and the wedding gets underway, Robin's water breaks and she's rushed to the hospital. She has a complicated delivery when her doctor and friend, Kelly Lee, realizes the umbilical cord is wrapped around the baby's neck, when her heart decelerates during Robin's contractions. After undergoing an emergency C-section, Patrick and Robin's baby girl is born on November 4, 2008. They name her Emma Grace Scorpio-Drake and their family celebrates with them. While holding his daughter for the first time, Patrick spots a nick on Emma's ear, and both Emma's parents fear she might have been infected with HIV. Luckily, she is proved to be HIV-negative. Right after finding this out, Robin crashes due to Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. Patrick and her entire family ask her to pull through for Emma's sake.

Eventually; she wakes up and fights for the sake of her family. When Robin and Emma go home, Robin appears to have trouble in being a mother. Luckily, Maxie and her uncle Mac tell her to be patient. Patrick and Robin decide to set another wedding date so their daughter can be there and they are officially married on December 29, 2008. Robin battles postpartum depression (PPD) in the beginning of 2009, and Patrick becomes increasingly worried about what this could do to Emma. During the hospital crisis in February 2009, Patrick is at the hospital trying to correct a surgery gone wrong, and Robin is at home, still not able to help Emma because of her post-partum depression. She pulls herself together long enough to realize that Emma is running a high fever.

She tries to get Emma to the hospital, but they get stranded when the van breaks down. Robin tries to walk but they are rescued by Maxie and Johnny Zacchara. Maxie and Johnny get Robin and Emma to the hospital, where they find out Patrick is under quarantine. Robin tells them to take Emma to Mercy Hospital while Robin helps passengers be evacuated from General Hospital. Patrick finds out Robin sent Emma with Maxie, and realizes her PPD is out of control. Robin is eventually brought to Mercy by Johnny, who tells Robin that Emma needs her now. At Mercy, Robin finds out Emma has pneumonia. After a few hours with Robin, Emma is cured and the doctor says that it was all due to "the power of a mother's love."

In 2016, Patrick and Robin get back together and get married again before moving to California with Emma.

On March 31, during spring break; Emma returns to Port Charles to visit her grandma while her parents are at a medical conference in Morocco after the incident at the All Saints Church where security there is later tightened in the aftermath leaving T.J. Ashford unharmed along with Ric Lansing and Shawn Butler who were not surprised. Later on, she meets Griffin Munro and then the next day they play cowboys and neurosurgeons.

She also helps Spencer through Nikolas' "memorial". Before she heads back to California, she signs Anna up for a dating website.

Emma comes back to Port Charles for Christmas and meets her counterpart Charlotte Cassadine after Emma's father Patrick had been replaced by his counterpart and Charlotte's father Valentin Cassadine. She is also present as Nathan and Maxie's wedding and acted as co-flower girl along with Georgie.

Her little brother, Noah was born in July of 2017.

On April 11, 2018; Emma returned to Port Charles to visit her grandmother and she eventually said that she was doing a school project on Switzerland over a month after the earthquake. Coincidentally, Anna and Jason were planning to go to Switzerland and Emma thought it would be really cool if she actually got to go there and research that country in person.

On April 13, Emma was seen with her grandmother in their hotel suite and her grandfather Robert eventually came to visit them. When Robert learned that Anna was working on a covert operation with Jason, he eventually asked "HQ" (Emma) if he could come aboard the secret mission and Emma said permission granted.

On February 6, 2020; Emma visits Port Charles one week after the three shootings like two in Port Charles and one in Brooklyn occurred by Cyrus Renault and over four months after the death of Hank Archer aka Shiloh's. She started to like Violet Finn after the death of Cassandra Pierce.

On February 10, Emma goes to visit more people like her old friend Charlotte.

On February 18, it is revealed that Emma left Port Charles and went back to Berkeley while Sonny goes to visit Cyrus Renault the next day.

On November 23, Emma returned eight months after being replaced by her counterpart Charlotte as Robert surprises Anna with a visit from Emma after she heard that Charlotte was hit leaving Emma unharmed. Emma is excited about interning at Berkeley's particle astrophysics center, shares with her grandparents that her friends know them as her "action grandparents", and asks her grandfather and Ric Lansing who also happens to be her parents' out of state attorney as well as Sonny's maternal half-brother and the former district attorney about their friendship and about Ric's only daughter Molly Lansing-Davis who is the assistant district attorney who is following in her parents' footsteps.

## Health and Vitals

* Threatened by Jerry Jacks and the people holding her mother, Robin, hostage including Jerry's new accomplice and district attorney Paul Hornsby, Franco Baldwin, Ava Jerome, and Johnny Zacchara in a conspiracy [revealed Nov 16, 2015]
* Approached by a child predator under the orders of Jerry Jacks, Paul Hornsby, Franco Baldwin, Ava Jerome, and Johnny Zacchara who tried to grab Emma when she refused to help her find her dog (a lie to get Emma to go with her willingly; Emma was emotionally traumatized as a result and spoke to Commissioner Jordan Ashford about the incident and the child predator was arrested as a result and was sent to prison and resulted in Commissioner Ashford talking to children at Port Charles Elementary School about Stranger Danger) [Nov 16, 2015; not even her mother's longtime best friend Sonny Corinthos could stop her because he was alone and disabled by Jerry's accomplice and district attorney Paul Hornsby on his wedding day]

## Relationships

* Family
* Friends
* Enemies

* Peter August - Emma's cousin once removed (deceased)
* Cody Bell - Emma's cousin once removed
* Anna Devane - Emma's maternal grandmother
* Mattie Drake - Emma's paternal grandmother (deceased)
* Noah Drake - Emma's paternal grandfather
* Patrick Drake - Emma's father
* Matt Hunter - Emma's uncle
* James Scorpio - Emma's uncle
* Mac Scorpio - Emma's maternal great-uncle
* Robert Scorpio - Emma's maternal grandfather
* Noah Scorpio-Drake - Emma's brother
* Robin Scorpio-Drake - Emma's mother

* Jordan Ashford - Former Commissioner of the Port Charles Police Department and current Deputy Mayor of Port Charles
* Franco Baldwin - Former criminal and former art therapist at General Hospital (deceased)
* Scott Baldwin - Former District Attorney and Franco's father
* Hayden Barnes - Franco's female counterpart/sister-in-law
* Shawn Butler - Moved to San Francisco 13 miles from Berkeley
* Charlotte Cassadine - Emma's friend/counterpart
* Donald Cassadine - Charlotte's paternal half-brother
* Harrison Chase - Finn's brother and Violet's uncle
* Sonny Corinthos - Her mother's longtime best friend
* Hamilton Finn - Her grandmother Anna's ex-fiancée and Violet's father
* Violet Finn - Her younger counterpart, Finn and Hayden's only daughter, and Franco's never met niece before and after Franco's death
* Russell Green
* Tara Horowitz
* Ric Lansing - Former District Attorney, her parents' lawyer, and Sonny's maternal half-brother
* Jake Spencer - Charlotte's boyfriend
* Unnamed boyfriend
* David Walters - Court judge

* Charlie Heineck - Jerry Jacks and Paul Hornsby's henchman (deceased)
* Olivia Jerome - (imprisoned)
* Liesl Obrecht - Charlotte's former great aunt
* Cassandra Pierce - (deceased)
* Kyle Sloane - Epiphany's late friend (deceased)
* Heather Webber - Franco's mother and her father Patrick's former patient before and after being revealed as The Hook killer who is best known to conceal her face and identity for most of 2022 until they're revealed on New Year's Day 2023 (imprisoned)