Heather Webber

**Heather Webber** is a fictional character on *General Hospital*. She is the mother of the imprisoned Steve Webber, the late reformed serial killer Franco Baldwin, and town troublemaker Esme Prince. She is also the step-grandmother of Aiden Spencer, Cameron Webber, and Jake Spencer; and the maternal grandmother of Ace Prince-Cassadine.

She was replaced by her younger counterpart Nelle Benson after Heather's final appearance in 2016 before Nelle's death in 2020 and Heather's return two years later after Nelle's death.

## Casting

Georganne LaPiere originated the role of Heather Grant on July 29, 1976.

When LaPiere left the role in September 1977, she was quickly replaced by Mary O'Brien and then she vacated of the role in July 1979. When Heather overdosed on LSD. O'Brien was offered the chance to reprise the role in 1980 but refused.

On October 1, 1980, Robin Mattson, known for her role as Hope Bauer on *Guiding Light* joined the cast as Heather Webber. Mattson departed from the series indefinitely on September 13, 1983.

Mattson reprised the role for a brief six-month stint which started on June 25, 2004, and concluded on December 3, 2004.

In February 2012, it was announced Mattson would again reprise the role, and made her onscreen return on April 2, 2012.

After some speculation Mattson might be done with the show, she was again seen on-screen in September 2012, making sporadic returns as Heather's various storyline arcs dictated over the next year and a half.

In October 2014, Mattson reprised her role as Heather again, airing into early 2015.

Mattson reprised her role as Heather on May 11, 2016, July 1, 2016, July 25, 2016 and on August 29, 2016 before being replaced by Chloe Lanier as Heather's younger counterpart Nelle Benson before Nelle's death in 2020.

On October 6, 2022; *Soap Opera Digest* broke the news that actress Alley Mills, known for her role on *The Bold and The Beautiful* as Pam, will join the cast of *GH* later this month in a mysterious role. Mills appeared as a recast of Heather from October 28, 2022 to February 27, 2023 replacing Chloe Lanier two years after Nelle's death.

On April 27, 2023; during an interview with Michael Fairman TV regarding her "Outstanding Guest Star" Daytime Emmy nomination, Mills confirmed she is returning to the role of Heather Webber. She returned on July 20, 2023 before being replaced by Josh Swickard as Harrison Chase and Diahnna Nicole Baxter as Ellen Garten.

On December 22, 2023; it was revealed that Mills will return to *GH* as Heather during the week of December 25 after being replacing Diahnna Nicole Baxter as Ellen Garten after the character left town and Charles Mesure as John Brennan after the character's arrest. She returned on December 29.

Later on, Chloe Lanier who portrayed Nelle Benson who replaced Heather will be cast as young Heather Webber.

## Storylines

* 1976-83
* 2004
* 2012-13
* 2014-16
* 2021-22
* 2023

In the summer of 1976, the scheming 19-year-old Heather Grant is hired by Nurse Diana Taylor as the nanny of her young daughter, Martha. Coming from a lower class family, Heather got what she wanted by cheating. Desperately wanting the job, Heather gave Diana a forged letter of recommendation. She soon sets her sights on Dr. Monica Webber's husband, Jeff. After Jeff and Monica have a fight, Heather comforts him and they end up sleeping together. When Jeff suddenly disappears, Heather learns she is pregnant. After Jeff attempts suicide, he is shocked to learn Heather is pregnant. Heather fakes a suicide attempt hoping to win Jeff's affections. However, because Jeff refused to leave Monica, Heather decided she didn't want the child. She confides in her mother, Alice, her plans. Instead of aborting her child at Jeff's request, she sells the newborn to Diana and her husband, Peter for $10,000.

Heather survives the fall, but is injured severely. Patrick Drake has her immediately taken to surgery due to her spinal cord damage and says that Heather is a crazy woman according to him everybody else in Port Charles, because she and Elizabeth aren't related to each other. Monica later tells Jason that Heather is in a coma after the surgery. In November, after couple of months in the hospital, she escapes. She goes to the Kelly's diner and Olivia has another hallucination and sees Heather, which she does because the woman that sees is Heather in a black wig who completely disguised herself as Sonny's lawyer Alexis Davis. She then goes to the Quartermaine mansion and sneaks into the living room. She finds the living will and testament of recently deceased Edward and messes with it. She holds Skye hostage with a knife until Alice knocks her out. She is taken back to Ferncliff. She repeats "I know something the Quartermaines don't know" over and over while the Quartermaines receive a pile of pizza boxes.

In August 2016, three months after attacking Lucas and failing to attack Bobbie at the Nurse's Ball, Heather was revealed to have been imprisoned at D'Archam Asylum and tells Franco that his female counterpart Hayden Barnes was Jeff's illegitimate daughter with Naomi Dreyfus, thus making her Elizabeth's sister before being replaced by her younger counterpart Nelle Benson. Over a year later, the crime at the Metro Court Hotel occurred by Cesar Faison's men who were in revenge for Faison which left Mayor Janice Lomax outraged in the aftermath before appearing at Charlie's Pub for the Charles Street redevelopment project nearly two months later before she resigned as Mayor which resulted in Jim Harvey of Niagara Equities arriving to Port Charles before Faison's return which resulted in the deaths of Cesar Faison and Nathan West because of Jim's collusion with Faison which triggered the earthquake one month later which Nathan would never survive.

On February 25, 2021; a guard at the hospital reads to paralyzed Ryan a letter from "Heather W.", his biggest fan months after the death of Nelle Benson and Margaux Dawson resigned as district attorney and moved to Seattle; Carly's torture at Ferncliff Asylum by Heather's friends Mary Pat Ingles, Rupert Watson, and Kurt Lazarus; and the death of Mary Pat Ingles.

On March 9; Heather's son Franco was shot and killed by Peter August, the son of Cesar Faison and Alex Devane in revenge for Nelle Benson with the help of Cyrus Renault of the Renault Organization from the Pacific Northwest. Her son Franco never got the chance to meet his niece and her great niece Violet Finn. Jason was arrested because Jason was framed by Peter with the help from Cyrus in revenge for Faison, Hank Archer aka Shiloh, Cassandra Pierce, Nelle Benson, and Sam's former parole officer Dolores Maloney. One month later after his death, Franco was replaced by Yuri Tamashevich from Belarus who assumed the identities of Drew Cain, Jason Morgan, and Franco Baldwin as well as adopting Danny, Scout, and Jake illegally months after the death of Nelle all while her daughter-in-law Hayden Barnes is nowhere to be found and was later revealed that she was presumably kidnapped by Victor Cassadine and replaced by Ryan Chamberlain's daughter and Victor's associate/henchwoman Esme Prince before Drew's return and Yuri's deportation by ICE.

On April 15, 2022 one day after the armed robbery at Charlie's Pub by Eric Watson and Harry DeFranco who were wanting revenge for Peter August nearly two months after Peter's death; Harrison Chase told Elizabeth, who has a stalker, that Heather is still in D'Archam and hasn't had any visitors since 2018 before and after Jason's death on Cassadine Island and replaced by Johann Bauer, Oz Haggerty, and the unnamed female serial killer who goes by The Hook. Heather denied any involvement of complicity of armed robbery after the imprisonment of Cyrus Renault who bores an uncanny resemblance to the late Cesar Faison.

On October 28, Heather returns as she came to General Hospital after the attacks from The Hook whose face and identity are concealed and is a woman after Esme Prince is locked in an en suite bathroom by Nikolas and replaced by Victor and Johann as Olivia has a bad feeling while at GH and turns around to see Heather being escorted by a guard and an orderly while wearing a prison uniform. Heather yells at Olivia about her son being in prison and makes jokes about LSD while Harrison Chase is on suspension.

On November 8 while being sent back to D'Archam with Anna who is headed to Pentonville, the prison transport van crashes and Heather escapes. She is caught when she stops at Kelly's for a BLT. The assistant manager and her step-grandson Cameron calls the police and Dante arrests her.

On December 9; it was revealed that Heather had a relationship with Ryan Chamberlain under their aliases "Hazel" and "Richard", when they conceived their daughter Esme Prince, whom Heather gave up for adoption. Years later Ryan found out about their daughter's existence and later confronted Heather about her leaving him and giving their daughter for adoption. Heather is unaware that she's about to become a grandmother to Esme's unborn child from Esme's one-night stand with her former boyfriend Spencer Cassadine's father Nikolas Cassadine and Heather's sons Steve and Franco are Esme's maternal half-brothers. Esme was secretly being lock up in a storage room in the North Tower of Wyndemere by Nikolas with the help of Elizabeth as Esme's nurse. Nikolas plans to send Esme to Cassadine Island after she gives birth. Unfortunately, on New Years Eve 2022, her daughter Esme set fire to the storage room in order to escape Nikolas, then she intentionally falls off the parapet into the ocean. Esme and her unborn baby were found by Spencer and Trina Robinson at the Haunted Star and was taken to the Hospital, where she was found to have hypothermia. Later, Ryan informed Heather about their daughter's pregnancy and Heather became excited as this is her first grandchild for her, because both Steven Lars and Franco didn't have children. Also, she wanted to be there for Esme as she gave birth. Ryan told her that it would not be impossible for her. Ryan and Heather were unaware that Esme suffered memory loss after falling into the ocean. They started to begin plans for themselves, Esme, the baby and possibly Ava, in Ryan's case.

On January 17, 2023; Heather finally meets her daughter Esme, when she arrives in Spring Ridge after she was remanded there after losing her sons Steve and Franco revealing that Esme has two maternal half-brothers. On January 18, Heather meets with Esme to speak to her about her current situation, which includes her memory loss, her pregnancy, and warning her to staying away from Ryan, which Esme later freak out and she left the common room, not before leaving behind her friendship bracelet. On January 23, Heather saves Esme after she was threatened by another inmate named Ramona in the common room by put a shank up to her side. Esme feels her baby kick, and Heather asks if she can feel it. Esme suggests maybe when they know each other better. Heather knows Esme's scared about being a mother, but she'll be a natural. Esme still doesn't know how given she's going to prison. Heather assures her that very soon the cops will know she couldn't be the hook killer. Later, Dante and Sam McCall visited Esme to speak to her about her old nanny Maggie. Sam explains she's been looking into her background and believes she isn't the hook. Esme thanks her but doesn't remember anything about her past. Sam believes there is someone who does and fills her in on her old nanny Maggie, and that her biological father might be in New York state. Sam offers to try and find him for her. Esme admits she has no money to pay, but Sam is willing to do this free of charge as it will help many of her friends. Esme answers, "Let's do it." Dante and Heather find Esme and Sam talking together. Esme reveals that Sam believes her father is in the state and is going to try and track him down, leaving Heather stunned.

On February 2, when Heather grabs the papers Esme is looking over and reads them. She is stunned they are custody papers and asks where she got them. Esme explains from Nikolas, the baby’s father. Heather is aghast and warns that the Cassadines are ruthless, and she must think carefully about signing her rights away. Esme believes Nikolas when he said this is only temporary until she gets out. Ryan is wheeled in as Heather warns Esme that men lie, all the time. Esme notices Ryan and thinks he is Kevin and gasps, “What happened to Dr. Collins?” Heather explains it’s Kevin’s dangerous twin Ryan, and that he’s locked in. Heather asks Esme again about the baby and why she’s so eager to give it up. Esme admits she isn’t, and this baby is the only thing she has. She also knows with this child, she’s not alone. Heather tells her that’s why she can’t give up this baby. Esme promises not to make any decisions until tomorrow. Heather excuses herself to speak to Ryan and is furious with him as she assumes he knew about Nikolas and didn’t tell her. She says Nikolas is after their grandchild, and the cops are onto him. She explains Dante and Sam were here and are looking for Esme’s nanny. She assumes this nanny knows of Ryan by the look in his eyes, so it’s time they bust out and take Esme with them.

After the final showdown at Wyndemere, Esme learns that Ryan and Heather were her biological parents before the death of Ryan and Heather's arrest for being the Hook killer. Esme gave birth to a boy in Wyndemere Castle with the help of his paternal grandmother Mayor Laura Collins, maternal great uncle Dr. Kevin Collins, and paramedics while Nikolas is presumed dead prior to the baby birth.

On February 27 while in the hospital; Esme named her son Ace, a name that she used to call the baby when she was still pregnant pre-amnesia. This could be a sign that her memory is returning. Shortly after, Heather visits her, in cuffs and with a police escort - having arranged the meeting in exchange for a full confession to The Hook's crimes. Esme adamantly denies her right to see her grandchild and disowns her as a mother. Heather is dragged out ranting and raving, blaming Laura for turning Esme against her and she was taken back to D'Archam Asylum.

On March 16, Heather who is back at D'Archam sends her daughter Esme Prince a letter at Spring Ridge. Esme screams and throws the letter when she sees it. She reluctantly opens the envelope and reads the letter.

On July 20 two months after the death of her grandson Ace's great-great uncle Victor Cassadine and a month half after the will reading of Victor Cassadine, Heather sees her daughter Esme talking to Cyrus Renault who bores an uncanny resemblance to the late Cesar Faison after Heather has been transferred to Pentonville Penitentiary.
## Crimes Committed

* Held a knife to Skye Chandler Quartermaine's throat in an attempt to take her hostage [Nov 2012]
* Escaped from Ferncliff [Feb 2013]
* Broke into Alexis Davis' house and kidnapped Sam Morgan's son, with the intent of taking him out of the country. [Feb 2013]
* Stabbed Ava in the stomach with a hook [Aug 26, 2022; as The Hook; Ava hospitalized on Aug 29, 2022]
* Stalked Josslyn [Sep 13, 2022; as The Hook]
* Attacked Diane Miller with a hook laced with snake venom [Sep 26, 2022; as The Hook]
* Murdered Oz Haggerty by attacking him with a hook laced with snake venom [Oct 6, 2022; as The Hook]
* Attacked Nikolas Cassadine [Nov 9, 2022; as The Hook]
* Fugitive; being hunted by the P.C.P.D. [Nov 9-10, 2022 while Harrison Chase is on suspension]
* Stole the keys to Ryan's Spring Ridge cell [Dec 8, 2022]
* Slapped Ryan [Dec 9, 2022]
* Killed an animal smuggler named David North aka "Venom guy" [revealed Dec 15, 2022; as The Hook]
* Attacked Rory Cabrera with a hook laced with snake venom; he died in the hospital [Dec 15, 2022; died Dec 16, 2022; as The Hook]
* Escaped to avoid capture [Dec 15, 2022; as The Hook]
* Stalked Trina and Spencer; was about to attack one of them with her hook until Maxie Jones unknowingly saved them [December 30, 2022; as The Hook]
* Tried to attack Josslyn [Dec 30, 2022-Jan 3, 2023; as The Hook; failed when Britt Westbourne and Dex Heller intervened and saved Josslyn]
* Cut Britt Westbourne with her hook; she died [Jan 3, 2023; Britt died on Jan 4, 2023 resulting of returning the favor to the late Cesar Faison five years later; as The Hook]
* Threatened to stab Ramona George, who threatened her daughter Esme Prince in the common room [Jan 23, 2023]
* Fugitive; being hunted by the P.C.P.D. [Feb 16-22, 2023 while Harrison Chase is on suspension]
* Hooked Austin Gatlin-Holt [Feb 20, 2023]

## Health and Vitals

* Attempted suicide; jumped off the GH roof with Jason and Sam Morgan's son (Jason saved the baby) [Oct 2012]
* Suffered broken vertebrae and lapsed into a coma after jumping from the roof of the hospital after being operated by Patrick Drake [Oct 2012]
* Rendered briefly unconscious after being hit over the head with a bat by the Quartermaines' maid, Alice Gunderson [Nov 2012]
* Briefly presumed dead after Stephen Clay aka Caleb Morley choked her and threw her into the Port Charles harbor after the "death" of Jason Morgan and the imprisonment of Stephen Clay's Danish counterpart Cesar Faison before Jason was revealed to be alive four years later replaced by Jason's father-in-law and Danny's maternal grandfather Julian Jerome [Feb 2013]
* Attacked by Britt Westbourne in defense of Josslyn Jacks [Jan 3, 2023]
* Shot by Dex Heller in defense of Britt and Josslyn [Jan 3, 2023]

## Relationships

* Family
* Friends
* Enemies

* Franco Baldwin - Heather's son with Scott (deceased)
* Hayden Barnes - Heather's daughter-in-law
* Drew Cain - Heather's cousin once removed
* Violet Finn - Heather's great niece
* Alice Grant - Heather's mother (deceased)
* Jonas Grant - Heather's father (deceased)
* Jason Morgan - Heather's cousin once removed (deceased)
* Esme Prince - Heather's daughter with Ryan
* Ace Prince-Cassadine - Heather's grandson
* Aiden Spencer - Heather's step-grandson
* Jake Spencer - Heather's step-grandson and Jason's son
* Cameron Webber - Heather's step-grandson
* Elizabeth Webber - Heather's daughter-in-law by marriage of Franco
* Steven Webber - Heather's son with Jeff

* Zahra Amir
* Frank Anderson - Faison's former henchman and fellow inmate (imprisoned)
* Greg Barnes - Faison's former henchman and fellow inmate (imprisoned)
* Frank Benson - Nelle's adoptive father (deceased)
* Nelle Benson - Heather's younger counterpart (deceased)
* Raymond Berlin - Heather's former associate and male counterpart
* Steve Book - Fellow inmate (imprisoned)
* Gabriel Burke
* Ryan Chamberlain - Heather's former lover and fellow inmate. Also the father of their daughter Esme (deceased)
* Steven Culp - Former editor of *The Invader*
* Russ Delvin - Faison's former henchman and fellow inmate (imprisoned)
* Steve Dietrich
* Hilda Dorsey - Fellow inmate (imprisoned)
* Cesar Faison - Heather's former boss (deceased)
* Sonny Faison - Faison's son with an unknown woman
* Mary Pat Ingles - Heather's henchwoman (deceased)
* John Keys - Heather's defense attorney
* Kurt Lazarus - Heather's henchman
* Rupert Watson - Heather's henchman
* Mark Whitten

* Haley Adams
* Leah Adams
* Randy Ashcroft - Sheriff of the Eerie County Sheriff's Department
* Curtis Ashford - Jordan's ex-husband
* Jordan Ashford - Former Commissioner of the Port Charles Police Department and current Deputy Mayor of Port Charles
* Marshall Ashford - Curtis's father
* T.J. Ashford
* Scott Baldwin - Former District Attorney
* Nora Buchanan - Nelle's former out-of-state attorney
* Shawn Butler - Current Owner and Publisher of *The Invader* now living in San Francisco
* Rory Cabrera - Officer of the Port Charles Police Department (deceased)
* Spencer Cassadine - Her grandson Ace's paternal half-brother
* Nikolas Cassadine - Her grandson Ace's father
* Victor Cassadine - Her grandson Ace's great-great uncle (deceased)
* Harrison Chase - Detective of the Port Charles Police Department
* Amber Chua
* Stephen Clay - aka Caleb Morley (deceased)
* Kevin Collins - Ryan's twin brother and her daughter Esme's uncle
* Laura Collins - Current Mayor of Port Charles
* Carly Corinthos
* Michael Corinthos
* Morgan Corinthos - (deceased)
* Sonny Corinthos
* Alexis Davis - Former District Attorney
* Margaux Dawson - Former District Attorney now living in Seattle
* Anna Devane - Former Commissioner of the Port Charles Police Department
* Emma Drake - Robin's daughter with Patrick now attending University of California in Berkeley
* Patrick Drake - Heather's former doctor now living in Berkeley
* Dante Falconeri
* Carol Ferris - aka Star Sapphire
* Austin Gatlin-Holt - (deceased)
* Martin Grey - Laura and Cyrus' brother
* Alice Gunderson
* James Horowitz
* Ava Jerome
* Lucas Jones
* Molly Lansing-Davis - Assistant District Attorney
* Ric Lansing - Former District Attorney
* Janice Lomax - Former Mayor of Port Charles
* Sam McCall
* Diane Miller - Now living in Los Angeles
* Harmony Miller - (deceased)
* Keith Miller - Diane's son with an unknown man
* Sally Miller - Diane's daughter with an unknown man
* Danny Morgan - Jason's son
* David North - Animal smuggler (deceased)
* Liesl Obrecht
* Brook Lynn Quartermaine
* Monica Quartermaine - Former General Hospital Chief of Staff
* Ned Quartermaine - Former Mayor of Port Charles
* Tracy Quartermaine
* Kyle Rainer - Desk Sergeant of the Port Charles Police Department
* Coleman Ratcliffe
* Natalie Rawles
* Portia Robinson - Trina's mother
* Trina Robinson - Marcus's and Portia's daughter and her daughter Esme's enemy
* James Scorpio - Anna and Robert's son, Robin's brother, and Detective of the Port Charles Police Department
* Robert Scorpio - Former Commissioner of the Port Charles Police Department, former WSB agent, and current District Attorney
* Robin Scorpio-Drake - Anna and Robert's daughter, James' sister, and Sonny and Jason's longtime best friend now living in Berkeley
* Bobbie Spencer - Michael's maternal grandmother and Lulu's aunt
* Luke Spencer - (deceased)
* Damian Spinelli
* Janet Strickland - Paul's wife
* Paul Strickland - Lieutenant of the Port Charles Police Department
* Marcus Taggert - Trina's father
* Willow Tait
* Ellie Trout
* David Walters
* Nathan West - (deceased)
* Britt Westbourne - (deceased)
* Johnny Zacchara - Fellow inmate (imprisoned)