Written by DandTMartin4ever
Born: Anna Devane
Mother: Filmena Devane (deceased)
Father: Thomas John Devane (deceased) Step Mother: Charlotte Devane
Siblings:
Alexandra Devane Marick (twin sister) Lindsay Devane - sister (deceased) Gabriel Devane - half brother
Marriages: Robert Scorpio (divorced twice) Duke Lavery (deceased) David Hayward (divorced) Children: Robin Scorpio (daughter with Robert) Leora Hayward (daughter with David, deceased)
Occupation: Former Pine Valley Chief of Police
Super-spy extraordinaire Anna Devane was found alive after a decade
of supposedly being dead in the outskirts of North America. Her twin sister,
Alex Marick, found her in a cabin in Canada near death. Alex and Anna's guardian,
Bart, took her to Pine Valley and put her in the hospital under Alex's name
so as not to arise suspicion. Dimitri Marick and Edmund Grey helped with the
charade. Dimitri opened his home to his sister in law. Upon returning to the
turret, they discovered Bart dead. Anna could not remember where she had been
in the last decade, but did remember that she was a spy who had many enemies.
The Wildwind crew decided to keep everything between them 
so
as to protect as many people as possible. But more and more people became involved,
including Dimitri's niece Gillian Andrassy Lavery and her husband Ryan. This
would prove fatal for Gillian who was killed by the assassin sent to kill Anna.
Anna felt as if she put everyone in harms way and wanted to get out of Pine Valley. But, her brother Gabriel gave her reason to stay and rebuild her life. Gabriel, Alex, and Dimitri returned to Hungary to comfort Gillian's family. Edmund told Anna she could either go with them or stay with her new family here. She stayed and began a new arc in her life. She even helped Ryan, who she learned to be her cousin by marriage to Duke Lavery, in finding his reason to live.
Daughter Robin Scorpio made her way to Pine Valley to see her mother.
The two embraced in finding each other again. Unfortunately,
their time was cut short, as Anna still believed her life to be in danger. She
sent her daughter back to Paris to protect her from suffering the same fate
as Gillian.
Federal Agent Chris Stamp enlisted her help in solving the Proteus case. She fell in love with prime suspect, David Hayward, and helped exonerate him. His drugs where created in hopes of saving his beloved Dixie Martin from her heart problem. Not wanting to testify against him on other drug charges, they eloped in her fourth marriage invoking the martial confidentiality clause. Vanessa Cortlandt, David's mother, was discovered to be Proteus. Someone wanting to get Vanessa’s drug money by threatening to kill Leo du Pres, David’s brother, drugged her. Anna was able to stop him moments before shooting Leo even under the influence of a drug. Anna was offered the job of Police Chief against DA Jackson Montgomery's wish who could not believe an officer would shoot while under the influence of a drug. Eventually, the two grew close. Maybe too close even for David. Her family grew when her nephew Aidan Devane made it to Pine Valley. Between David and Aidan's troublemaking, she was one busy Police Chief.
The marriage was cut short with the revelation that David had drugged
and hid Anna's sister in law Maria 
Grey
from her family for over half a decade. She could not be with a man who tore
apart a family like what happened to her. At the same time, she discovered she
was pregnant. David did everything he could to work his way back into Anna's
life, including admitting to some crimes and giving up his job at the hospital
for one at the free clinic. Anna's life was almost taken at the clinic when
Reggie Porter held her at scalpel point. David professed her love for Anna at
that point, and the two reconciled.
Their baby had a heart problem, so Anna had to go to a specialist in
Switzerland for help. David 
could
not leave because of his probation, but arranged for Robin to take care of Anna
while she was abroad. The surgeon suffered a stroke moments before the repairing
surgery was to be done in Anna's uterus. David was allowed to fly out a conduct
the surgery. They saved Anna and the baby. Leora Hayward was soon born and took
the namesake of the late Leo du Pres.
Leora needed another surgery, but David did not want it. Anna signed off the papers without him and Dr. Joe Martin continued with the surgery. Leora did not make it through and David blamed the Martins, who he thought where trying to claim revenge for his past acts against them, for Leora's death. Anna tried to help him, but he pushed her farther away. Anna turned to Jackson again for comfort. On the day of the funeral, Anna told David he had to let go. Weeks later he plotted to wipe the memories of the Martin family at the July 4th celebration, but Anna was able to stop him. In the cabin, they fought and cried together and realized they could not mourn the life of their daughter without each other.
Anna was tired of covering for David. She discovered he and Erica could have been responsible for the death of Michael Cambias. She went to the cabin and left the evidence she had found and a note for David. David came before she could leave. She told him she was going to Paris to be with Robin and she did not want him to follow her. She walked out the door and out of Pine Valley.
Portrayed by:
Finola Hughes 1985-1992 (General Hospital), 2001-2003 (All My Children)