AMC casts Guiding Light vet as new crime fighter

AMC casts Guiding Light vet as new crime fighter

Television and film star Paula Garcs is joining the cast of All My Children in a newly created role. The actress previously appeared from 1999 to 2001 as Pilar Santos on Guiding Light.

Paula Garces (Lea Marquez) and husband Antonio Hernandez are expecting their first child later this year.Garces and Hernandez were married in 2002.Prior to joining AMC, Garces appeared as Pilar Santos on Guiding Light from 1999 through 2001.Garces will play the role of Lea Marquez, described as "a smart, savvy, beautiful woman who's devoted her life to a career of fighting crime and bringing down the bad guys."

Lea may also be described using the old adage "all work and no play." The show notes that "Lea's career takes up most of her days and nights, which leaves little time for a personal life. That is, until a man challenges her safe, controlled existence and threatens to open up the part of her she'd long since put to rest, her heart."

In addition to her work on All My Children, Garces also appears in the primetime soap, Devious Maids, where she plays a maid whose murder is shrouded in mystery. The Lifetime series also stars a host of soap vets, including Susan Lucci (ex-Erica Kane).

Edited by SC Desk