Samantha "Sam" Morgan (maiden name
McCall) is a
fictional character on the
ABC soap opera,
General Hospital. Created by
Charles Pratt, Jr. and
Robert Guza, Jr., the character made her debut on the episode airing on October 1, 2003, portrayed by
Kelly Monaco. Sam is the daughter of mob boss,
Julian Jerome (
William deVry) and powerful attorney
Alexis Davis (
Nancy Lee Grahn), born and given up for adoption when both were teenagers. She arrived in town as a
con artist trying to reverse her family's bad luck by destroying the five lucky cards of the "Dead Man's Hand." Upon her arrival she was characterized as a "sexy bad girl, with a nose for intrigue." Since her introduction, the character has matured into a self-assured and confident woman, while still retaining traces of her adventuresome, bad girl ways.