Michael Corinthos

**Michael Corinthos** is a fictional character on *General Hospital*.

## Casting

* Early years
* Cash
* Garrett
* Duell
* Adamson
* Later

Born onscreen on December 29, 1997, Michael has been portrayed by:

Twin actors Dylan and Blake Hopkins were the first children to play Michael Corinthos on General Hospital beginning in 1997. After starting in the role as babies they continued through until 2001 when the role was aged. As they grew up on the show they began talking and often could be heard asking where their brother was during scenes.

Tiarnan Cunningham took over the role of Michael Corinthos on General Hospital in 2001 when the character was aged. During his short time on the show which ended in early 2002, Tiarnan worked with two different Carly’s as his mother, Sarah Joy Brown and Tamara Braun.

On March 28, 2002; Dylan Cash made his first appearance as Michael, aging the character and revising his birth year to 1995.

After three years with the series, Cash signed a contract in April 2005.

In March 2008; rumors began circulating that Cash's contract was about to expire and would not be renewed, and by April several sources confirmed the fact.

*BuddyTV* reported that Cash was blindsided by his firing, and confirmed the series was considering aging the character.

It was also rumored that ABC was considering *As the World Turns'*, Jesse Lee Soffer for the role.

Cash made his last appearance as a contract cast member on May 16, 2008, briefly reprising the role for one episode on December 29, 2008.

"You'd think growing up as the son of a mobster would mean violence wasn't a big deal, but a stray bullet (meant for his dad) sent Michael into a coma that changed his life, and his family, forever. After a year asleep - and a subsequent stint in prison - Michael is no longer the sweet little boy everyone remembers."
During his six years with General Hospital, Cash earned numerous awards, including a 2003 Young Artist Award in the Best Performance in a TV Series by a Young Actor Ten or Younger category.

Later on, actor Greg Kinnear will be portraying as Michael 25-30 years later in *General Hospital Beyond*.
## Storylines

Michael was born 4 weeks early on December 29, 1997; after Carly starts bleeding due to a placental abruption and collapses. Jason finds her and rushes her to the hospital, where she has an emergency C-section. When his mother starts to show symptoms of PPD, she leaves him with Jason Morgan, who names him Michael after Sonny Corinthos (the man who would eventually become his father). Tony later kidnaps Michael after finding out that Michael isn't his son but Michael is eventually rescued by Jason. When Tony was put trial for the kidnapping, Carly shoots him and Michael and Carly are once again separated. When Carly returns, she discovers Robin Scorpio and Jason taking care of Michael and soon sets out to destroy the relationship which leads Robin to tell A.J. that he's Michael's biological father. Carly marries A.J., who threatens to take Michael if she ever disobeys his orders.

In February 2007; he and his siblings Morgan and Kristina became scared of former Port Charles resident Jerry Jacks aka James Craig along with Diane Miller, his uncle Ric Lansing who is the District Attorney as well as the hostage negotiator, as well as the other residents of Port Charles including his infant cousin Molly after A.J.'s death as they're seeing it on the news. The aftermath left him and his siblings traumatized along with his infant cousin Molly, but unharmed as Mayor Garrett Floyd was being interviewed by the press about former Port Charles resident Jerry Jacks and his accomplices as they were being arrested and lawyered up except Lorenzo Alcazar who escaped the scene of the crime to avoid capture and many people sustained injures in the rubble from the explosion in the lobby. Security at Metro Court Hotel was later tightened to take more security measures. Less than three months later, Elizabeth's son Jake Spencer was born.

On January 29; Michael, Sasha, Josslyn and Laura were caught in a shootout on the pier. Michael was the target but Laura got shot and was collateral damage. Eventually, Dustin Phillips showed up and fought the gunmen off. The gunmen who were sent there that did the collateral damage was Cyrus Renault from Seattle, Washington who was had been transferred from Thompson Penitentiary in the Pacific Northwest to Pentonville Penitentiary in Port Charles and bores an uncanny resemblance to the late Cesar Faison as Sam's parole officer Dolores Maloney denied any involvement.

## Crimes Committed

* Obstruction of justice; knew that Sonny's enemies Jerry Jacks and his men and women stole ELQ shares; but didn't report to the police, Interpol, or the WSB [Jan 2015]
* Got into a fist fight with his brother Morgan [Mar 23, 2015]
* Accidentally knocked his baby sister over in her stroller (she was uninjured) [Apr 8, 2015]
* Manhandled Nelle Benson after she kidnapped their son Wiley and refused to give him back [Aug 27, 2020]
* Accidentally punched Chase [Oct 19, 2020]
* Grabbed and threatened Cyrus Renault in defense of Sasha nearly two months after the death of Cyrus' friend Nelle [Nov 16, 2020]

## Health and Vitals

* 1997-2010
* 2011-present

* Traumatized in the aftermath of the Metro Court Hotel hostage crisis along with his siblings Morgan and Kristina, his infant cousin Molly Lansing-Davis and Diane Miller [Feb 2007]
* Threatened by Jerry Jacks under the orders of Claudia Zacchara [Jul 30, 2009]

* Ran a bomb off The Haunted Star (Sonny took it and jumped in the water with it before it went off) [Feb 4, 2015]
* Suffered a bloody lip after Morgan punched him [Feb 26, 2015]
* Threatened by Sonny [Mar 10, 2015]
* Has really bad allergies [revealed March 2015]
* Unknowingly had his allergy medication switched by his brother Morgan [revealed Mar 23-Apr 24, 2015]
* Slipped and fell onto a table after a failed attempt to punch Morgan [Apr 7, 2015]
* Jumped into freezing water to rescue Carlos Rivera [May 12, 2016]
* Fell unconscious during the earthquake (suffered a concussion as a result) one month after the deaths of Cesar Faison and Nathan West [Mar 5, 2018; revealed Mar 6, 2018]
* Shot at multiple times by one of Cyrus Renault's men in revenge for Faison, Shiloh, and Cassandra Pierce [January 30, 2020]

## Relationships

* Family
* Friends
* Enemies

* Larry Ashton - Michael's great uncle, Tracy's ex-husband
* Mike Corbin - Michael's adoptive paternal grandfather (deceased)
* Amelia Corinthos - Michael's daughter
* Carly Corinthos - Michael's mother
* Morgan Corinthos - Michael's maternal half-brother (deceased)
* Sonny Corinthos - Michael's adoptive father
* Wiley Corinthos - Michael's son
* Alexis Davis - Michael's adoptive marital aunt and Molly's mother
* Kristina Davis - Michael's half-sister
* Dante Falconeri - Michael's adoptive brother
* Rocco Falconeri - Michael's adoptive nephew
* Molly Lansing-Davis - Michael's adoptive cousin
* Ric Lansing - Michael's adoptive uncle
* Trevor Lansing - Michael's adoptive great uncle (deceased)
* Danny Morgan - Michael's cousin, Jason and Sam's son
* Emily Morgan - Michael's cousin, Jason and Sam's daughter
* Jason Morgan - Michael's uncle (deceased)
* Liesl Obrecht - Michael's great aunt by marriage of Sonny and Nina
* A.J. Quartermaine - Michael's biological father (deceased)
* Alan Quartermaine - Michael's paternal grandfather (deceased)
* Amanda Quartermaine - Michael's cousin, Nicolas and Molly's daughter
* Edward Quartermaine - Michael's great-grandfather (deceased)
* Emily Quartermaine - Michael's adoptive aunt (deceased)
* Lila Quartermaine - Michael's great-grandmother (deceased)
* Molly Quartermaine - Michael's aunt by marriage to Nicolas
* Monica Quartermaine - Michael's paternal grandmother
* Nicolas Quartermaine - Michael's uncle
* Tracy Quartermaine - Michael's great aunt
* Nina Reeves - Michael's mother-in-law/adoptive stepmother
* Bobbie Spencer - Michael's maternal grandmother
* Jake Spencer - Michael's cousin, Jason and Elizabeth's son
* Luke Spencer - Michael's great uncle
* Pat Spencer - Michael great aunt (deceased)
* Valerie Spencer - Michael's cousin
* Nathan West - Michael's stepcousin once removed (deceased)
* Britt Westbourne - Michael's stepcousin once removed (deceased)

* Elisha Adams - Officer of the Port Charles Police Department
* Haley Adams
* Leah Adams
* Curtis Ashford - Drew's friend and partner
* Jordan Ashford - Current Commissioner of the Port Charles Police Department
* T.J. Ashford - His cousin Molly's boyfriend
* Hayden Barnes
* Shawn Butler - Now living in San Francisco
* Harrison Chase
* Amber Chua - Court judge about ELQ
* Jessica Cruz - aka Green Lantern
* Patrick Daniels - Officer of the Port Charles Police Department
* Patrick Drake
* Naomi Dreyfus
* Felix DuBois
* Carol Ferris - aka Star Sapphire
* Russell Ford - Former General Hospital Chief of Staff (deceased)
* Barbara Gordon - Michael's current girlfriend, aka Batgirl
* Alice Gunderson - Quartermaine's housekeeper
* James Horowitz - Monica's old friend
* Jasper "Jax" Jacks - Michael's ex-stepfather and Josslyn's father
* Kiki Jerome - Michael's ex-girlfriend (deceased)
* Epiphany Johnson - Michael's friend and former Head Nurse at General Hospital (deceased)
* Georgie Jones - (deceased)
* Maxie Jones
* Hal Jordan - aka Green Lantern
* Richard Lowe
* Andre Maddox
* Shane McAvoy
* Diane Miller - Michael's former attorney now living in Los Angeles
* Keith Miller - Diane's son with an unknown man
* Sally Miller - Diane's daughter with an unknown man
* Delores Padilla
* Henry Pierce
* Diana Prince - aka Wonder Woman
* Zoe Raleigh
* Natalie Rawles
* Joe Rivera
* Teddy Rivera - His ex-girlfriend Sabrina's son now living in Puerto Rico after the death of his ex-girlfriend Sabrina Santiago
* Heather Roth
* Sabrina Santiago - Michael's ex-girlfriend (deceased)
* Mac Scorpio - Current Commissioner and former Chief of Detectives of the Port Charles Police Department, also his adoptive uncle Ric's friend
* Robin Scorpio-Drake - His father Sonny and uncle Jason's longtime best friend now living in Berkeley
* Ellen Scully - Officer of the Port Charles Police Department
* Lulu Spencer - Michael's adoptive ex-sister-in-law (hospitalized)
* Henry Sullivan - Michael's current lawyer
* Tinkerbell
* David Walters - Michael's grandmother Monica's ex-boyfriend
* Mary Wells - His father's nurse/friend and current Head Nurse at General Hospital
* Zatanna Zatara
* Kara Zor-El - aka Supergirl

* Diego Alcazar - (deceased)
* Lorenzo Alcazar - (deceased)
* Luis Alcazar - (deceased)
* Hank Archer - aka Shiloh who bore a striking resemblance to the late Nathan West (deceased)
* Peter August - Faison's son with Alex and Nelle's male counterpart who was following in his late father's footsteps (deceased)
* Franco Baldwin - (deceased)
* Nelle Benson - Michael's ex-wife (deceased)
* Michael Carson - Mary Pat's male counterpart and Michael of a different stripe (imprisoned)
* Helena Cassadine - Valentin's mother (deceased)
* Stavros Cassadine - (deceased)
* Valentin Cassadine - Helena's son with Victor
* Victor Cassadine - His paternal half-sister Avery's ex-step great-great uncle (deceased)
* Ryan Chamberlain - (deceased)
* Stephen Clay - aka Caleb Morley and Faison's American counterpart (deceased)
* Cesar Faison - (deceased)
* Sonny Faison
* Peter Harrell, Jr. - aka Levi Dunkleman (deceased)
* The Hook - Serial killer whose face and identity are concealed for most of 2022 until New Year's Eve 2023 revealed to be Heather Webber (captured)
* Paul Hornsby - Tracy's ex-husband, former District Attorney, and Jerry's former accomplice (imprisoned)
* Mary Pat Ingles - Heather's henchwoman, and Brad Cooper and Michael Carson's female Ferncliff counterpart (deceased)
* Jerry Jacks
* Olivia Jerome - Nelle's former sister-in-law and Nikolas' former sister-in-law (imprisoned)
* Daisy Kwan - Now living in Beechers Corners
* Shawn Phillips - Rupert and Brad's counterpart, and a Shawn of a different stripe (imprisoned)
* Cassandra Pierce - (deceased)
* Cyrus Renault - Michael's new enemy from the Pacific Northwest who bores an uncanny resemblance to the late Cesar Faison who is the former the Chairman of the Board at General Hospital before and after his arrest before changing his appearance to look like Johnny Zacchara 25-30 years later and bore an uncanny resemblance to the late Victor Cassadine
* Carlos Rivera - (deceased)
* Winston Rudge - (imprisoned)
* Rupert Watson - Heather's henchman, Epiphany's male Ferncliff counterpart, and Shawn Phillips' Ferncliff counterpart
* Heather Webber - aka "The Hook" (imprisoned)
* Anthony Zacchara - (deceased)
* Johnny Zacchara - (imprisoned)