Irene Manning

Irene Manning is a fictional character from the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Casting The character first appears in the episode dated May 27, 1978, originated by the actress Kate McKeown. In 1985, Andrea Evans (who played Irene's daughter, Tina Lord) portrayed Irene in flashbacks. McKeown reprised the role in 1987. Diana Lamar appeared in flashbacks as Irene from 1994 to 1995. Barbara Rhoades appeared as a back-from-the-dead Irene on the episode dated August 9, 2011, last appearing in a vision on November 10, 2011. Storylines 1978, 1980–81 Irene Clayton (Kate McKeown) is introduced on-screen in fictional Llanview, Pennsylvania, on the episode first-run May 27, 1978. The former best friend and college roommate of central heroine Victoria Lord (Erika Slezak), she arrives asking Viki to permanently adopt her 16-year-old daughter, Tina Clayton (Andrea Evans), as she is ostensibly dying from terminal cancer. Soon on her deathbed, Viki promises Irene to take care of Tina, and Irene apparently succumbs to the illness on-screen in July 1978. Soon later, her legal widower Ted Clayton arrives in Llanview in 1980 hoping to con assumed daughter Tina and her adoptive mother Viki out a portion of the Lord family fortune. When Ted's plans are foiled by Tina, he goes on a killing spree, murdering Vinny Wolek before he-himself is killed by police officer Ed Hall (Al Freeman, Jr.) in 1981.