Erica Kane is a long-running character on the American soap opera All My Children. Erica has been played by Susan Lucci since the show's first episode in 1970. The character popularized the catchphrase "I am Erica Kane!", said whenever she was afraid or threatened.
Erica has married Pine Valley residents such as Tom Cudahy (Richard Shoberg), Adam Chandler (David Canary), Travis Montgomery (Larkin Malloy) and Dimitri Marick (Michael Nader).
A model-turned-makeup executive, she always had a very close relationship with her mother, Mona (Frances Heflin). Erica took it very hard when Mona died of cancer in 1994.
Erica has two children: Kendall (who was the product of a traumatizing rape by movie producer Richard Fields on her fourteenth birthday), and Bianca, who was the product of her marriage to Travis Montgomery. In 2000, Bianca came out as a lesbian, and only recently has Erica fully come to terms with the revelation.