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Maurice Benard spoke with Fox News Digital about why "General Hospital" has been on the air for 60 years and how special the fans of the soap opera are.
On- and off-screen, loyalty is everything for “General Hospital” star Maurice Benard, 60. For three decades, he’s played mob boss Sonny Corinthos on the iconic ABC soap opera, but he ...
General Hospital costars flood Instagram with support for Maurice Benard . The ABC soap has plenty of tight-knit costars. They show up for each other when needed, and the loss of a parent is one ...
The March 10 episode of State of Mind began with General Hospital star Maurice Benard declaring something important about his ongoing mental health conversation. Benard has been an open book ...
Maurice Benard has been known for mentoring his fellow daytime actors and recently revealed in the latest General Hospital cast members that he’s taken under his wing. On the latest episode of ...
Maurice Benard has been open about his experience with mental illness and the actor recently revealed he landed 'All My Children' a year after getting out of a mental health facility.
By the time Maurice Benard landed his first soap role in 1987, as Nico Kelly on All My Children, he had already had two mental breakdowns and was keeping his illness, bipolar disorder, a secret ...
Maurice Benard has been the only Sonny Corinthos on General Hospital, and he hopes to keep it that way. Several actors currently on the show have held roles for decades, ...
Maurice Benard, who has played Sonny on ABC’s soap opera “General Hospital” for more than 30 years, has made destigmatizing mental health a passion project.
Maurice Benard is celebrating 30 years of playing the bipolar mob kingpin Sonny Corinthos on ABC‘s long-running soap opera, General Hospital. And during today’s episode of The View, ...
Maurice Benard got a special surprise on the Tamron Hall Show Thursday. The General Hospital actor, 60, had been discussing his family with host Tamron Hall, ...
Benard married his wife, Paula Smith, and the two have three children together. But on top of this, in 2008 they adopted Smith’s younger sister, Heather when Heather was 15 years old.