Who was Alison Sweeney on Days of Our Lives? Character explored as soap star is set to return

Alison Sweeney will return to Days of Our Lives in 2025 to reprise her role as Sami Brady. She announced her return in an interview with TV Insider on August 6, 2024. It has been two years since Sami was last on screen.

Sami was first introduced in the story in 1984, as the daughter of Marlena Evans and Eric Brady. Alison Sweeney took on the role when the character was a teenager in 1993. During her character arc, Sami has been in relationships with Lucas Horton and EJ DiMera, and is also mother to Will Horton.

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About Alison Sweeney's character on Days of Our Lives

Alison was introduced as Sami the soap as a teen and was actively involved in sabotaging her mother Marlena's affair with John Black. Sami struggled with mental health issues and bulimia in her introductory storylines. After turbulent relationships with Lucas and Austin, Sami also went through a teen pregnancy and gave birth to her son Will.

After the marriage with Austin disastrously ended, Sami started dating EJ DiMera but the relationship soon started to deteriorate because of EJ's obsessive nature. During this time, Sami gave birth to EJ's children John and Alice. It was later revealed that Alice was Lucas' daughter, and EJ was not her father. EJ then separated from Sami and moved on with Nicole Walker.

In 2014, Alison Sweeney's role became a recurring one with cameos since she chose to move on to other projects. However, she featured many times on Days of Our Lives, most notably during a Christmas special in 2021. Her last cameo on the show was in 2022, when Sami was seen storming out of the DiMera mansion.

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Who is Alison Sweeney? Career explored

Alison Sweeney, an American actress, has received a Daytime Emmy nomination for her role as Sami Brady and won four Soap Opera Digest Awards, thrice in the Outstanding Villainess category.

Apart from the soap, Sweeney has a diverse filmography to her name. She started her career in 1984 with the television show Simon & Simon. Her most recent project was the 2024 film One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery, where she played the main character Hannah Swensen.

Some of Sweeney's most popular works and characters have been listed below:

• Family Man (in 1988) as Rosie Tobin in 7 episodes
• The End of Innocence (1990) as Stephanie
• Bay State (in 1994) as Casey Mills in 2 episodes
• Friends (in 2001) as Jessica Ashley in 1 episode
• Beat Bobby Flay (in 2015) as herself
• Murder, She Baked film series (2015, 2016, 2017) as Hannah Swensen
• Chronicle Mysteries film series (2019) as Alex McPherson
• The Wedding Veil trilogy (2022, 2023) as Tracy Goodwyn

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Viewers can watch Days of Our Lives streaming on Peacock, with new episodes released on all weekdays.