Alexa Havins Is the New Lulu on GH!

The search is over! Alexa Havins has been cast as the new Lulu on General Hospital !

Back at the beginning of August, GH released a casting call for a character named Lauren who sounded suspiciously like the much-missed Lulu Spencer . And shortly after that news broke, the character’s previous portrayer, Emme Rylan, confirmed that the soap was going to be recasting and she would not be returning to the role she played from 2013 until 2020. Daytime Confidential first broke the casting news and TV Line confirmed it.

Havins will be familiar to ABC soap fans from her role as All My Children ‘s Babe Carey Chandler, which she played from 2003-07, returning for a special appearance in 2011 before the soap aired its final episode on ABC. In 2005, she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress for her work on the soap.

Viewers might also recognize Havins from her roles in movies like 27 Dresses and Professor Marston & the Wonder Women as well as television series like Torchwood and The Astronaut Wives Club. Havins is married to her former AMC co-star Justin Bruening (Jamie), and they have three children together.

Lulu was born to Luke and Laura back in 1994 and was played by child actors until the character was aged up in 2005 and Julie Berman took over the role. After she left the soap in 2023, Emme Rylan stepped in and played Lulu right up until her exit in December 2020 when the character slipped into a coma after being injured at an explosion at The Floating Rib.

Before falling into the coma, Lulu had confessed to Maxie that she still loved her ex-husband Dante, very much. So while he’s currently with Sam, look for that relationship to be tested when Lulu wakes up! As to when that will be, keep checking back here at SoapsInDepth.com for future updates, including her first air date!

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