Kendall Hart

"I didn't mean to cause trouble. Honest."

- Kendall Hart

Kendall Hart is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, All My Children. The character is the daughter of the series' central character, Erica Kane, a child conceived when Erica was raped on the night of her 14th birthday by movie matinee idol, Richard Fields. She was originally written as a complex villain, described as "the most terrible daughter on daytime," but was later reformed by the series.

She was initially portrayed by then 15-year old Sarah Michelle Gellar during the character's first run from March 11, 1993 to July 3, 1995 and then by Alicia Minshew from January 7, 2002 to September 23, 2011. Minshew appeared as Kendall Hart on the Prospect Park's revival of All My Children in the second July 8, 2013 episode.

Character Age & Origins
Kendall was introduced to the audience as a 16-year old runaway desperate to meet her idol, Erica Kane. Due to discrepancies involving the current audience remembering Erica had not been a teenager pregnant from rape 17-years before and then Kendall being purported as the product of a 24-year old rape, the character was rapidly aged to 22-23 years old in the summer of 1993 (birth date revised to September 25, 1970). Upon the character's return in 2002, Kendall's birth date was revised back to September 25, 1976, reverting her age to her original birth date when she appeared as a 16-year old girl in the spring of 1993.

When Erica was 14-years old, she was raped by Richard Fields, an aging actor friend of her father, director Eric Kane, who often targeted young girls. It was later revealed Eric Kane had set this up in exchange for Fields to act in a movie he was directing. Due to Erica's trauma from the rape, her mother, Mona Tyler, gave Erica's baby daughter up for adoption. Taken in by the Harts, the family eventually moved to Florida. Overhearing her parents talking late at night as a child, Kendall learns she was adopted but kept this newfound knowledge from her parents. When she is old enough, Kendall unseals her adoption papers and discovers her birth mother is her childhood idol, Erica Kane, and saves up her money to go to Pine Valley. She builds up a fantasy that she would meet her mother and become part of her glamorous life.

1993 to 1995
1993 - 1995

Kendall Hart was given up for adoption to Bill and Alice Hart and raised in Florida. As a child, she learns of her adoption when she overhears her parents discuss it late one night but keeps this knowledge to herself. When Kendall is old enough, she unseals her adoption papers and discovers her birth mother is her idol, Erica Kane. In March 1993, she runs away to Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, seeking a Hollywood reunion of mother and long-lost child. Presenting herself as a teenaged runaway from an abusive home, Kendall waits for Erica at the offices of Enchantment, Erica's cosmetics company. Upon meeting Erica and her fiancé, Count Dimitri Marick, Kendall begs for a job. Erica hires her as her personal assistant and puts her up at the Pine Valley Inn until Kendall moves to Myrtle Fargate's boarding house in April 1994. Kendall aids in planning Erica's wedding to Dimitri from March to May 1993.

Kendall is in for a shock while working for the demanding, often egotistical Erica. While she was initially excited to work for her idol and devoted herself to her job, her resentment of being treated as an employee increases upon witnessing the attention Erica lavishes on her eight-year old daughter, Bianca (Kendall, again lost in Hollywood lore, somehow thought Erica would sense their hidden connection). Kendall begins to sabotage Erica's wedding plans after successfully putting together her engagement party, during which Erica's mother, Mona Tyler, noticed a familiar birthmark on Kendall's neck. In an effort to sabotage Erica's wedding, Kendall orders the wrong supplies, cancels the orchestra, and burns Dimitri's divorce papers from his ex-wife, Angelique.

Meanwhile, Mona recognizes the Kendall's birthmark and realizes Kendall may be Erica's baby girl Mona had her give up for adoption at age 14. She begins to seek information about Kendall when she is visited by Nick Davis and shares her suspicions with him. Mona reveals the story of Erica's rape by a friend of her father's, subsequent pregnancy, Kendall's birth, and holding Kendall as an infant while telling Kendall that she loved her. Nick searches Kendall's room at Myrtle's boarding house and stations a private detective, Hayley Vaughan, there as a resident to investigate Kendall. Erica almost discovers their mission when Kendall confronts her about Nick searching her room but he and Mona cover up their efforts. Hayley and Charlie visit the Harts, who deny Kendall is adopted and Mona ends the search. However, Kendall reveals to Myrtle that Erica is her mother in April 1993.

Encouraged by Myrtle, Kendall tries to tell Erica about her true identity in May 1993 but Erica, having since discovered Kendall's sabotage attempts, harshly scolds her and Kendall is sent fleeing in tears, where she lashes out at a bewildered Bianca. Erica, upon learning of the altercation and of Kendall's various sabotage attempts of her wedding, goes to confront Kendall but is notified of Bianca being hurt in a horse-back riding accident and rushes off to the hospital. Jealous of the attention Bianca receives over her injury, Kendall blurts out the truth to Erica. Angry, Erica initially refuses to believe her but when Kendall presents her with her adoption papers, she accepts that Kendall is her daughter. Kendall runs away from the hospital and Erica reveals to Dimitri that she was raped, having nearly blocked the entire event from her mind. She searches for Kendall, hiring private detectives to find her, and locates her shortly after. They talk and Kendall admits she sabotaged Erica's wedding to hurt Erica as much as she felt Erica hurt her by giving her up for adoption. However, Kendall agrees she wanted Erica to be her mother. Kendall asks about her father and, despite Erica's attempt to protect Kendall from the truth of how she was conceived, Kendall becomes desperate and begs for the knowledge. Erica reluctantly reveals that she became pregnant with Kendall by rape but avoids revealing the rapist's identity. She explains to Kendall that she would like to try to be her mother. Kendall, though hesitant at first, agrees to work at a mother-daughter relationship with Erica. Erica welcomes the young woman into her life, inviting Kendall to live with her. Mona apologizes for not revealing her suspicions, trying to explain to Kendall that it was her choice to give her up for adoption and asks her not to blame Erica.

Later that month, Erica makes Kendall a bridesmaid to stand alongside her and Bianca. Bianca is furious to discover that Kendall is her sister, becoming insecure about no longer being Erica's only daughter and the two continually argue. In June 1993, Erica publicly announces Kendall as her daughter in her wedding announcement. However, to Kendall's horror, Erica invites the Harts to Pine Valley and explains to them that she is Kendall's birth mother. Kendall briefly runs away from Erica's house but is found by Dimitri, who tries to assure her their new family will work. Erica is initially angry with the Harts for keeping Kendall's adoption a secret, blaming them for Kendall's disappearance, but learns the Harts omitted this information out of fear Kendall would feel unloved. Kendall is immediately brought back by Dimitri and she unhappily accepts Erica told her parents everything. The Harts are invited to attend Erica's wedding to Dimitri in support of Kendall. Mona, Erica, Bianca and Kendall share a moment as "three generations of Kane women" in front of the mirror the morning of Erica's wedding.

Though Dimitri, Erica, Kendall and Bianca all try to make it work as a family, Kendall's jealousy of Bianca increases and the two continue to bicker. Bianca spills ink on Kendall's bridesmaid dress to keep her out of Erica's wedding party in '''June 1993.  Kendall manipulates Bianca into returning to her home in Seattle with her father in July 1993''' and sabotages Erica's strategies to win custody of Bianca. Kendall then encourages Bianca to run away from her home in Seattle to Pine Valley in August 1993 but partially admits to what she did after Bianca does go missing shortly after. Later that month, Kendall manipulates Bianca again and Bianca locks herself in the Wildwind mausoleum during another attempt to run away. Kendall hears her sister's cries and ignores them. However, she reveals Bianca's location later that night. Erica and Kendall work to develop a close mother-daughter relationship but Kendall, seeking Erica's approval, feels uncertainty with her identity and her place in Erica's life and becomes increasingly embittered by not receiving everything she is looking for from her mother. Erica works to be the mother Kendall wants her to be and give her the kind of love Kendall needs but struggles with memories and reminders of her rape brought on by Kendall's sudden appearance in her life. As a result, Dimitri, also pushing to develop Erica and Kendall's relationship, becomes Kendall's confidante. However, she secretly begins to develop a crush on him. In August 1993, Kendall accidentally stumbles upon the discovery of her birth father's identity and begins asking questions. Erica initially denies to Kendall that Richard Fields is her father. However, after Kendall begs for the information and says she needs to know, Erica reluctantly confirms it. However, she demands that Kendall completely forget about Richard Fields and explains forgetting him protects them both from the pain of who Kendall's father was. Kendall promises she will not find Fields but, despite repeated warnings from Erica against locating Richard Fields, she resolves to find her father and becomes obsessed with material about him. Dimitri discovers what she is doing and understands her need to learn about the father she came from. Believing he is protecting both Kendall and Erica by controlling the search, in addition to ensuring that Erica does not find out, Dimitri offers to aid Kendall in finding her biologicla father. He hires Hayley as a private investigator. During the successful operation, Kendall's crush on Dimitri grows.



She gets to know Anton Lang, a medical student living at Wildwind as Dimitri's ward she met earlier in August. Kendall finds his attention irritating but Erica and Dimitri work to form a friendship between them, wanting Kendall to have friends her own age. During October 1993, Erica discovers Kendall's forbidden research on her biological father in the Wildwind stables and hysterically burns it in a momentary effort to erase Fields. She forbids Kendall a final time to find or research him. Kendall agrees but secretly increases her efforts to hide her search, explaining that she needs to confront Fields over what he did to Erica and find out everything about where she came from. After finding Kendall's collection of material on Fields, Erica begins experiencing flashbacks to her rape. Kendall, Dimitri, and Haley find Richard Fields in November 1993. Richard Fields lies to Kendall that he never raped her mother after she angrily confronts him about it. Desperate to believe she was not conceived in rape, Kendall starts to accepts Richard Fields' lies. However, Dimitri has Kendall promise she will sever contact with her biological father. Kendall agrees but discreetly takes Richard Fields' calls at Wildwind, wanting contact with both her birth parents. Simultaneously, Erica's flashbacks to the night of her rape worsen. She starts unwittingly seeing Fields in Kendall's place and begins to freak out at Kendall. Fields calls Kendall back at Wildwind one night and Erica has a panic-attack after she answers the phone to hear Fields' voice while she was having another nightmare about him. Due to increasing nightmares and flashbacks about her rape, Erica realizes she can't be the mother Kendall needs her to be and is failing in her efforts to give Kendall the type of love she wants from her. She feels guilty about giving Kendall up for adoption but explains to Dimitri that she has no choice but to have Kendall move out of Wildwind because she is a reminder of Richard Fields and remembering Fields has taken over her life. Instead, Erica offers to pay for Kendall's apartment and education. Dimitri protests and they argue but he agrees to ask Kendall to find an apartment. Though Erica, Dimitri, and Anton tell Kendall this isn't a rejection, she is crushed by the request but fakes a willingness to accept the arrangement.

Kendall's friendship with Anton slowly grows. However, over the previous months, he figures out Kendall has a crush on Dimitri but Kendall repeatedly denies it. Blaming Erica for having to leave Wildwind, a spiteful Kendall purposely slips to Erica that she and Hayley went to California. Erica immediately questions her for her visit and Kendall quickly covers, saying she and Hayley are just planning a trip there next year, but Erica is left suspicious. When she finds out Kendall has visited her birth father in California and discovers Dimitri's part in it, she is furious and rages at them both. Erica slaps Kendall and leaves Dimitri. In Erica's absence, Dimitri asks Kendall to stay at Wildwind. She deliberately thwarts a reconciliation attempt between Erica and Dimitri by allowing her mother to discover her still living there. Upset, Erica questions Dimitri's reasons for having her stay in her absence, suspicious he feels more than paternally for Kendall, but Dimitri tries to explain to Erica that he only cares for Kendall because she is her child. Shortly after, Kendall's adoptive mother calls in December 1993 and asks her to return home to Florida but Kendall still wants another chance with Erica, saying she just wants Erica to love her. Erica explains to Kendall that, though she tried, she can no longer try to be the fantasy mother Kendall dreamed her to be and what she can give to her isn't enough for Kendall. She implores Kendall to return to the Harts, that they already provide the type of love she wants, and gently tells Kendall that, "the most loving thing (she) can do for (Kendall) is to ask (her), please, stop hurting (her)self this way."  Though Erica explains to Edmund she is pained at letting Kendall go, she voices her suspicions there is something going on between Dimitri and Kendall.

Kendall is distraught from her talk with Erica and finds Dimitri at Wildwind. Refusing to accept that he only has paternal feelings for her, she confesses her love for her step-father and attempts to seduce him but he rejects her. She reveals to Dimitri that she is furious at Erica for being given up for adoption; now believes Erica was not raped by Richard Fields; and insists she was not given up for adoption in an act of love, as Erica claimed, but out of selfishness. Furious, Dimitri roughly shakes Kendall. This is unknowingly witnessed by Erica through the window but she flees when she hallucinates Kendall as herself and Dimitri as Fields. Having earlier told Mona that she felt it was best for herself, Kendall, and everyone to send Kendall home to the Harts, hoping to put her rape behind her, Erica explains what she saw happen between Dimitri and Kendall at Wildwind. She reveals she felt a maternal urge to protect Kendall but was too frightened when she started hallucinating Kendall as herself and Dimitri as Richard Fields.

Dimitri realizes Kendall is still in contact with Richard Fields and accuses Kendall of sabotaging Erica. Kendall maintains all she wanted was Erica's love but admits she is outraged at her mother. She refuses to give her father up, furious at Erica for giving her up. Livid, Dimitri throws her out of Wildwind. Devastated, Kendall finds Anton and tells him she wants to kill herself. She confides the events of that day, including her interactions with Erica and Dimitri. After he sympathetically hears her out, she allows him to seduce her and loses her virginity that night. The following morning, Kendall appears troubled by the experience and frantically finds Erica. Erica, concerned by Kendall's hysteria, asks Kendall if there was an accident and if she's hurt. Still crying, Kendall denies this and Erica grows increasingly worried as she remembers witnessing Dimitri shake Kendall. When she tries to get information out of Kendall and Kendall struggles to answer, Erica, aware of Kendall's virginity, asks if Anton seduced her. Kendall says it was Dimitri and implies she was raped. Erica is immediately infuriated by Kendall's claim and accuses her of lying "get back at (her)", referencing Kendall's history of sabotage, and refuses to believe Dimitri seduced her. However, Erica wavers in her disbelief when Kendall vocalizes her fear of being pregnant, guilt-tripping her mother when she cries she is unable to take care of a baby but can't give her own child up either and begs to be taken to a doctor. Erica, still wanting to uncover any duplicity, insists on taking Kendall to the hospital where Dr. Joe Martin examines her. He confirms to an anxious Erica that Kendall did have sex for the first time within the past 12 hours. She is further distressed when Dr. Martin, noting the bruises on her arms, speculates Kendall might have been raped. Erica has Kendall tell her what happened that night with Dimitri and Kendall fabricates a convincing account of Dimitri attacking her, her story aligning with Erica's own recollections of her rape. Believing Kendall, Erica leaves to confront Dimitri at Wildwind, who unsuccessfully tries to tell her of Kendall's deceptions. An enraged Erica accuses Dimitri of raping her daughter and, hallucinating him as Richard Fields, stabs him with a letter opener.

Erica returns to the hospital, claiming to have stabbed Richard Fields but is horrified to learn she stabbed Dimitri. Kendall overhears what happened at Wildwind and faints from shock. Erica tells Jackson Montgomery she stabbed Dimitri because of what he did to Kendall. Jackson explains that she came to the hospital saying she had killed Richard Fields. Upon regaining consciousness, Kendall is visited by a confused Anton at the hospital and frightened that he will ruin everything, she tells him to get out of her life. She then learns from Erica that she was hallucinating Richard Fields when she stabbed Dimitri. She tries to see Dimitri but he throws her out of his hospital room and Kendall vows revenge on both her mother and step-father for their rejection. After being detained in the hospital for a short while, Erica is arrested for the attempted murder of Dimitri. At Wildwind, Kendall tells a skeptical Anton that Erica is delusional and imagining things, denying she had anything to do with Erica stabbing Dimitri. Jackson also finds Kendall there and explains Erica stabbed Dimitri because Kendall told her that Dimitri had raped her. Kendall lies by claiming that she didn't tell Erica anything like that and only admits to asking Erica to take her to the hospital because she was afraid she was pregnant. Jackson presses Kendall for the identity of her partner that night and Kendall refuses, until an angry Anton identifies himself as the one Kendall had sex with that night.

Meanwhile, Erica is saying she had no choice but to confront and stab Dimitri because he raped her daughter and consequently, also flashed back to her own rape because of that. Jackson reveals to her that Kendall is denying she ever told Erica that she accused Dimitri of raping her. Erica refuses to believe this, insisting Kendall had been raped by Dimitri because that's what Kendall told her, and wants to talk to Kendall about this. Erica finds Kendall at Wildwind where she tries to coax her into admitting what Dimitri did to her, assuring Kendall of her support. However, Kendall panics and attempts to convince Erica she imagined the accusation of rape she made against Dimitri. When Kendall ultimately admits the lie, she says she did it because she wants to hurt Erica and Dimitri "so bad, (she'd) die," that she is angry over being given up for adoption, and she would have done anything for Erica's love. Erica tries again to explain she can't be Kendall's "fantasy mother" anymore. Kendall explains her lie was also vengeance against Erica for being kept away from a father she believes could have loved/raised her, accusing Erica of ''"thr(owing her) away." '' She reveals she lied about being raped because she now thinks Erica lied about being raped by Fields. Stunned, Erica tells her that these are all Fields' lies and denies she just threw Kendall away. She furiously warns her against Fields and declares she had defended Kendall to Dimitri. Outraged over Kendall's false accusation against Dimitri, Erica realizes Kendall is so angry at her, she would "lie about anything," and infuriated, accuses Kendall of knowing what her claim would do to her marriage. When Kendall continues to yell her intentions for revenge, Erica calls her a "lying, scheming witch" and nearly slaps her but Kendall dares her mother to stab her with scissors instead. An appalled Erica refuses to do so and disowns her.

Having been thrown out of Wildwind by Edmund just before her confrontation with Erica, Kendall returns to Myrtle Fargate's boarding house. She brings Richard Fields to Pine Valley in January 1994 and highjacks Erica's press conference when she uses it to introduce Fields to the town, stating she wants to clear his name of any rape accusations. Myrtle learns that Fields is Kendall's biological father, not her ailing uncle, and kicks them out of her boarding house. Kendall gets a room at the Pine Cone Motel and offers herself as a witness for the prosecution in the case against Erica, who has been charged with the attempted murder of Dimitri. Despite continued warnings from Anton, Erica, Dimitri, Hayley, Charlie and others against her father, Kendall refuses to believe he is capable of rape and assures herself he loves her. Fields persuades Kendall into taking him to Erica's trial each day but when Kendall witnesses him using her and the trial for a movie deal, she begins growing doubtful of her father's intentions.

At Erica's trial during February 1994, Kendall takes the stand for the prosecution. She twists the truth and lies about her history with Erica. She falsely states Erica knowingly stabbed Dimitri because she was jealous that Dimitri wanted her romantically as well. Kendall tells the jury that on the morning in question, she told Erica was that she had unprotected sex with Anton and was scared that she was pregnant. She denies she told Erica that Dimitri raped her, provoking a tirade from Erica in court, who demands she stop lying and tell the truth. When Kendall's lies start to unravel under cross-examination by the defense, Kendall is forced to admit her crush on Dimitri and subsequent attempt at seduction. In retaliation, Kendall flies to Seattle and convinces Bianca, previously unaware of Erica's attack on Dimitri, to return with her to Pine Valley in an effort to sabotage Erica. When Kendall leaves Bianca alone in her locked motel room to get take-out, Fields finds Bianca there and they amicably talk. Kendall is surprised to return and find Fields with Bianca, who was also discovered there by Dimitri, Jackson, and Trevor Dillon. Bianca is taken to Erica's house. Despite continuing to defend her father, an uneasy Kendall has Fields confirm to her that he didn't touch Bianca. In court later that day, Erica is successfully infuriated by Kendall's actions and enraged at her when she learns Bianca was alone with Fields.



Kendall is devastated to learn of other rape accusations and charges made against her father, growing increasingly troubled. She is horrified when she catches him attempting to rape Bianca at the Pine Cone Motel during March 1994, who had come from Erica's house to see Kendall about the trouble she is causing. Kendall immediately rescues Bianca and sends her home with Mona. Having witnessed her birth father for what he truly is, Kendall is sickened, realizes he did rape her mother, and is disgusted that she defended her father despite Erica's and everybody else's warnings against him. She completely disassociates herself from Fields and leaves him, with her last words to him being, ''"I hope you burn in hell." ''Mona later confronts Fields and attempts to stab him but leaves him to die in the motel room from a heart attack. Kendall finds Erica the next morning, apologizing for her lies. Erica asks Kendall if she's aware of the trouble she's caused and the people she's hurt, nearly getting Dimitri killed. Kendall says she was hurt because she didn't get the type of love from Erica that she wanted. She agrees to tell the truth in court when Erica, still doubting her sincerity, deceives Kendall into exonerating her after promising her help. Kendall confesses her lies during her testimony for the defence in court and is immediately arrested for perjury upon stepping off the stand. Erica refuses to help Kendall out of her perjury charge but is convinced by Anton to visit Kendall later that night in jail where the two have an emotional confrontation over Kendall's various schemes. Erica explains her deception to Kendall and says she won't help her, revealing that she promised Kendall legal protection in order to convince her daughter to exonerate her. A stunned Kendall tearfully explains she tried to take back her lies with her testimony. Erica tells Kendall that she would have helped her had she not brought Bianca into the situation, screaming at her over Richard Fields being alone with Bianca. Kendall apologizes and accepts her imprisonment but begs for another chance, explaining she only came to Pine Valley to be Erica's daughter. Though initially conflicted by Kendall's cries, Erica still doubts her sincerity and says she can't forgive her, lecturing Kendall to give up her fantasy life if she hopes to have a decent future and notes prison as the result of her revenge plots. She leaves a newly vengeful Kendall in jail. Erica returns home and, feeling terrible about turning her back on her daughter, calls Alice Hart to help Kendall. Kendall is charged with perjury and sentenced to 30 days at Green Briar, a correctional facility. There, Kendall experiences a brief but warm reunion with her mother, Alice, and immediately falls into her arms.

Anton vows his loyalty to Kendall, making Dimitri extremely unhappy. Dimitri tries to buy Kendall out of town, infuriating Anton. Dimitri exiles Anton from Wildwind when he refuses to leave Kendall but learns Anton is his son shortly after. While imprisoned, Kendall meets fellow town pariah and inmate, Janet Green, who has received experimental plastic surgery on her face and the two gradually become friends. She reveals she is Erica Kane's daughter and updates Janet, a former Pine Valley, resident of the events happening in town since her imprisonment. Unbeknownst to Kendall, Janet's daughter, Amanda, is being raised by Erica's lawyer, Trevor Dillon and Janet pushes Kendall for information on him and his family. Anton proposes to Kendall in April 1994 and though she initially refuses to elope, wanting to figure out her life first, they get engaged'''. '''When Del Henry, a writer in need of money for a kidney transplant, proposes the idea of a tell-all book about Erica to Kendall, Anton makes Kendall promise she will stop plotting against Erica. He threatens to call their engagement off if Kendall agrees to help Del write the book and Kendall refuses the proposition. However, she secretly calls Del Henry later that day and agrees to write the book with him. Kendall is released in late April 1994 and Dimitri is forced to offer Anton and Kendall the Hunting Lodge to appease his newfound son. He and the other Wildwind residents operate under the guise of making peace with Kendall to keep Anton, angry at Dimitri over his treatment of Kendall, open to a relationship with his father. Kendall is immediately suspicious something is going on. In the Hunting Lodge, Kendall meets Julia Santos, currently residing at Wildwind, when she and Anton find her crying in the Hunting Lodge. Kendall immediately dislikes her, igniting a rivalry over Julia's growing friendship with Anton.

Dimitri reluctantly hires Kendall as his personal assistant on the condition that she stop her schemes against Erica. However, Kendall continues to sabotage her mother's life and thwart her reconciliation attempts with Dimitri. Continuing her habit of eavesdropping, Kendall deliberately allows an upset Erica to discover Dimitri has let her to live in the Hunting Lodge, Erica and Dimitri's honeymoon home. Erica starts to suspect again that Dimitri is romatically interested in Kendall, forcing Dimitri to reveal to Erica a short while later that Anton is his son and he is keeping Kendall at Wildwind for him. Discreetly, Kendall begins helping Del write the tell-all book about Erica in an effort to damage Erica's reputation. Keeping the book secret and hurt by her history with Erica, she negatively fabricates stories about her mother and twists their relationship for Del's book. In June 1994, Kendall meets Anton's sister, Corvina, and discovers there is a secret regarding Anton being kept from her by the other residents at Wildwind. Determined to learn what it is, Kendall eavesdrops on conversations and attempts to befriend Corvina, going so far as to get her drunk so that Corvina accidentally leaks the secret to her but she is unsuccessful. The other Wildwind residents inform Corvina of Kendall's previous activities and a frustrated Kendall remains unaware that Anton is Dimitri's son.

Kendall promises to keeps quiet about Janet's true identity when she discovers her masquerading under a new face and name, "Jane Cox" in July 1994. She initially confronts Janet over her deception but when she is injured by a beam during a tornado, swears to Janet she will keep her secret for Amanda's sake. Kendall is touched by the complete love Janet has for her daughter and explains she doesn't want Amanda to turn out like herself, feeling unwanted and unloved. Their friendship remains hidden until December 1994, when Janet's identity is revealed during her failed wedding to Trevor Dillon, despite Kendall's best efforts to cover for her. Their friendship continues as they remain each other's closest allies in mutual support and scheming. Kendall prevents Janet from embarking on two massacres in an effort to take Amanda back in March 1995 and in May 1995. However, in May 1995, a horrified Kendall witnesses what she believes to be Janet's death when she is apparently stuck by lightning.

When Kendall's grandmother, Mona, dies in August 1994, Kendall is deeply affected and attempts to pay her respects, only to be angrily confronted by Erica, who mistakenly believes that Kendall is faking her grief and has merely come to crash the funeral. Despite Kendall's heartfelt confessions, Erica orders her to leave. She is pulled away by Janet after accidentally knocking over Mona's portrait. Janet agrees to say good-bye to Mona on Kendall's behalf. Later, when visiting Mona's grave, Kendall gets into another argument with Dimitri, which climaxes when Kendall demands to know why he still protects Erica after she stabbed him. Furious at Erica over Mona's funeral, Kendall angrily resumes work with Del on the tell-all book continues. Howeve, they start to develop a friendship. Later that month, Kendall manages to intercede a thank-you note from Erica to Dimitri and forges a scathing letter in its place to prevent any reconciliation between them. At the end of August, her involvement in the tell-all book is discovered in front of Anton and she is forced to confess contributing her falsified stories to it. Kendall successfully convinces Anton she will change and agrees to go to therapy but when Anton discovers Erica's burned note to Dimitri in the fireplace and realizes Kendall's forgery, he throws her out of Wildwind in September 1994. Kendall returns to the Pine Cone Motel.

After the tell-all book is dropped, Kendall briefly fakes a pregnancy in an effort to win Anton back. She and Erica have an emotional and heated confrontation over Kendall's forged note and tell-all book attempt. In another plan to get Anton back, Kendall takes six pills to fake a suicide and successfully guilt-trips Anton but Dr. Martin notifies Erica when Kendall is taken to the hospital. Erica confirms Kendall is still alive but is immediately suspicious it's another ploy. Dr. Martin verifies her suspicions with his test results, explaining that Kendall's attempt was faked and Erica exposes Kendall's lie to a guilt-ridden Anton. Furious, Anton leaves her. Afterward, Kendall works for a short time as Brooke English's assistant at Tempo Magazine from October to November 1994 but when she prints a false article about Erica's renewed modeling career in the magazine, an aggravated Erica discovers it, notifies Brooke, and Kendall is immediately fired. In December 1994, Kendall is miserable to learn that Dimitri and Erica are back together. She remembers the Wildwind secret that has eluded her since June and irate, works with Janet to come up with a lie in its place. When Janet suggests that Kendall lie to Anton that he is Dimitri and Corvina's son, a revelation neither of them knows to be true, a dubious Kendall tries this story with Anton. Anton immediately denounces the story as a lie. When he brings it to Dimitri, Dimitri confirms that he is his father and Corvina is his mother. Furious at the deception, Anton visits Kendall. He convinces her to elope with him as vengeance against their respective parents, who are re-married and upset when they find out about Anton and Kendall's marriage. In January 1995, Kendall is hired as a waitress at McKay's Restaurant and Anton, angry at Dimitri and Corvina, quits his medical training to become a car mechanic. Anton treats Kendall with indifference as she tries to make their marriage work but becomes threatened by Anton's developing closeness with Julia. Corvina moves out of Wildwind after Dimitri disowns Anton over his marriage to Kendall.

In February 1995, Corvina convinces a reluctant Kendall to sneak into Wildwind and steal a ceramic leopard, bought in Budapest by Erica. Though Kendall is fearful of getting caught, she agrees to steal the leopard after learning it contains fabled documents that would make Corvina's family heir to Wildwind but they discover it empty. In March 1995, Kendall schemes with Corvina to forge the non-existent documents claiming Corvina and Dimitri were switched at birth, making Corvina, Anton, and (via marriage) Kendall, the heirs to Wildwind. As Kendall's friendship with Del grows stronger, he continuously attempts to persuade her from her revenge plots. Kendall begins having second thoughts but Corvina convinces her to go through with their plan. Del warns the Maricks that Kendall may be up to another scheme. Kendall plants the leopard containing the forgeries at Wildwind. Del tries again to dissuade her from going through with the plot, assuring her that she has good in her and Erica doesn't hate her. However, Kendall is upset he is working for Erica as a copywriter at Orsini and insists she needs to get back at Erica for being cut off. Kendall and Corvina convince Anton to agree to a dinner at Wildwind under the guise of roconciliation. Dimitri and Erica agree to the dinner set up with Kendall, Anton, and Corvina at Wildwind in hopes it will uncover Kendall and Corvina's plot. Aware of the closeness between Del and Kendall, Erica solicits Del's help in getting Kendall to reveal her plan for that evening. Del agrees but is unsuccessful when Kendall refuses to admit to anything. During the evening, a fight over the leopard ensues between Corvina and Erica. It breaks and the forged documents are discovered. Dimitri and Erica immediately suspect they are part of the Kendall's new plot that Del had warned them about. The next day, Erica has them checked out by her lawyer, Jackson Montgomery, and shares her suspicions about their authenticity and Kendall's plan. Corvina confesses her part in the scheme after Anton prompts her for the truth. Kendall desperately attempts to sell the story of the baby-switch to several magazines but it is rejected. Instead, she is given several warnings to drop the plot and then a lecture from Brooke at Tempo to stop her revenge schemes and change her life. However, a miserable Kendall ignores their words. The Maricks and Erica, with Jackson's help, trick Kendall into signing annulment papers under the guise of signing documents that would make Anton and herself owners of Wildwind. Anton leaves Kendall due to her continual scheming in April 1995.

Kendall is devastated but grants Anton the annulment without contest and her relationship with Del develops into a romance during May 1995. He helps Kendall to rebuild her life and let go of her anger against Erica and the Harts. She attempts to move on in Pine Valley. After learning about Erica's accident when she falls from a catwalk, Kendall rushes to the hospital to discreetly ensure her mother is alright. Later that month, she is distraught to witness the supposed death of Janet but finds few in Pine Valley are willing to believe her. In June 1995, Kendall continues to work with Del to figure out her future but when he proposes marriage to her, she turns him down on the basis that she needs to figure out her life first. They continue their relationship as is and Kendall reconnects to her mother, Alice Hart, after she is grieved to learn that her father, Bill, dies suddenly from heart complications. She attends the funeral with Del and as she looks around her childhood home full of her photos, Kendall wonders why she never felt lucky. They return home where Kendall and Del decide to move to Florida to take care of Alice. Kendall writes Erica a letter, apologizing for her activities. She accepts she was given up for adoption in an act of love, not cruelty, and thanks Erica for giving her life and the life she had with the Harts. Before her departure in July 1993, Kendall leaves on good terms with several Pine Valley residents and shares a warm good-bye with Anton and Myrtle, the latter who tells Kendall that Mona loved her. Erica is conflicted by Kendall's letter but is suspicious it's another ploy. She is convinced by Myrtle to see her daughter before she leaves when she is reminded of Mona. At the Pine Cone Motel, Erica and Kendall make peace with Erica forgiving her for the harm she has caused. Erica gives her a ring belonging to Mona and they hug before Erica wishes Kendall happiness and Kendall thanks her for everything. Erica reveals to Dimitri that she is relieved but saddened by Kendall's departure. Kendall is amazed by her mother's forgiveness and bids a tearful good-bye to Pine Valley, leaving for Florida with Del.

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In 2002, Kendall's character was finally recast with actress Alicia Minishew and the character's birth date was revised to September 25, 1976. Erica goes on trial for the murder of Frankie Stone, Bianca’s girlfriend. Needing someone to help incriminate her, Erica calls in Kendall, half-hoping Kendall will not implicate her on the stand and that she has changed after all. On January 7, 2002, a newly embittered Kendall, who has since amicably split from Del, returns to Pine Valley to aid the prosecution in charging Erica with murder. While she continued to go back and forth with her difficult mother, Kendall and Erica were reconciled for good approximately 1.5 to 2 years after her return and developed a deeply loving mother-daughter relationship. Largely, the character had reformed and reconciled with her family, including the formation of a very close relationship with her half-sister, Bianca. Kendall was eventually written as a heroine, though her devious characteristics were kept still intact.

Gellar guested in the 2011 series finale opposite a longtime friend from her initial tenure on All My Children, Eva LaRue. She played a delusional mental patient who saw vampires and believed herself to be the daughter of Erica; nods to both of her most famous TV roles, Kendall Hart and Buffy Summers.

Trivia

 * Because of her work as the self-absorbed Kendall, when Gellar went to Joss Whedon for her Buffy the Vampire Slayer auditions, Whedon at first considered her for the role of Cordelia Chase.
 * In a 1999 interview with the The Chicago Tribune, Roger Kumble, writer and director of the 1999 film, Cruel Intentions, revealed he wanted Gellar in the lead role of Kathryn Merteuil based on her work as Kendall Hart.
 * Rudolph Martin, the actor who played Kendall's once-gullible husband, Anton Lang, later starred as Dracula in both a TV-miniseries and in the fifth season opener of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
 * Gellar briefly worked with Lauren E. Roman, who played teenaged runaway Laura Kirk, on All My Children. They would work together again in the 1999 Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, "Earshot", in which Roman played Buffy's neurotically overachieving high school classmate, Nancy Doyle.
 * Michelle Trachtenberg portrayed Dawn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and also played Lily Benton Montgomery on All My Children from 1993 to 1996. Though her tenure overlapped with Gellar's time on All My Children, the two characters didn't interact.
 * Alicia Minshew (Kendall Hart, 2002-present) interviewed that she received a basket of flowers, cakes and cookies from Gellar with "a note saying that Kendall was a great role and for me to have fun playing her". The two met on All My Children's set a year after Minshew's time in the role while Gellar was visiting friends . Minshew describes, "We just gave each other a big hug and she said I was doing a great job."
 * In an interview with Michael Fairman, Minshew reveals she has "always loved the relationship between Kendall and Erica, even before I played her. I liked the dynamics between Sarah Michelle Gellar (ex-Kendall) and Susan."
 * Gellar stated in multiple interviews that she grew up watching All My Children and continued to watch the show after she left the role of Kendall Hart, explaining, "I still watch the soap every day!" in 2002.