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Mark Dalton is a fictional character from the ABC Daytime soap opera, ''All My Children''. He was portrayed by Mark La Mura. He debuted in 1976 and remained a permanent character until 1989 when he left Pine Valley for a job in China.〔Beck, Marilyn, and Liz Smith, eds. "Ullman stars in killer comedy." ''Wilmington Morning Star'' (NC ) 17 Jan. 1989: 2D. ''Google News''. Web. 12 Jan. 2012.〕 Mark made special guest appearances in 1994, 1995, 2004, and 2005. Mark Dalton's significant storylines are his failed romance with his half-sister Erica Kane in the 1970s and of substance abuse, including with risks of HIV and AIDS, in the 1980s. La Mura earned a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 1988 for Best Supporting Actor. ==Brief character history== Dimpled and darkly handsome Mark Dalton arrived in Pine Valley in 1976. He immediately caught the eye of Erica Kane, when she introduced Mark to her mother Mona, whom she liked him, but also had an odd sense of familiarity. After a while, she realized just why he seemed familiar. She managed to track down Erica and Mark moments before they planned to have sex and told them the awful truth—they were brother and sister!! Erica's father Eric had had an affair with his secretary. She had then married a wealthy man named Dalton and Mark was raised as his son. Bewildered, Erica and Mark parted ways, but eventually became friends. Mark began dating Ellen Shepherd. There was a great deal of anxiety on her part because she was over ten years his senior and had an adult daughter. They fell in love, but when he proposed, she was wary about entering married life again. While they were apart, Mark met Brooke English while he was teaching a music class at PVU. They began a relationship, even living together at one point, but they split when Ellen agreed to marry him. Problems began to arise over Mark's desire to have a child. Ellen was against raising another baby at her age. Mark spent more and more time at his work, and drifted into an affair with college student Pamela Kingsley. She thought they were in love, but his heart was still with Ellen. When he broke the news to Pamela, she took an overdose of pills and nearly died. Ellen discovered their affair and angrily asked Mark for a divorce. Mark, under pressure as a songwriter, and missing Ellen, began to take more and more cocaine to ease his burdens. Soon he had spiraled into full-blown addiction. While he was on the run from the police, Erica hid him out in her attic, but she soon noticed what horrible shape he was in. With help from Ellen, Brooke, and medical professionals, Erica held an intervention which forced Mark to accept his dependence on drugs. He went to rehab and after serious effort, vanquished his demons. Ellen was by this time a veteran of another failed marriage (to Ross Chandler), which made her realize that she'd never stopped loving Mark. She and Mark reconciled, and after a quick remarriage and a warm goodbye to family and friends, they moved to Japan. Mark visited in mid-1994 for Mona's funeral, and although he was not present when Erica suffered through painkiller addiction in 1995 and early 1996, he did return when she had an alcohol problem in 2004. With the help of Jack, his nieces (her daughters) Bianca and Kendall, and Erica's friends Myrtle and Opal, he held an intervention similar to what she had done for him nearly twenty years earlier. Erica went to rehab and Mark returned to Hong Kong, where he played piano on a cruise ship. Mark returned in early 2005 for the show's 35th anniversary, to surprise Bianca after she was reunited with her daughter Miranda. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Dalton (All My Children)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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