Nancy Lawson
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Nancy Lawson was one of the main villains on the soap opera "Another Life
Another Life
Another Life is an American television soap opera produced and broadcast by the Christian Broadcasting Network from June 1, 1981 to October 5, 1984...

". She was played by Nancy Mulvey.

Nasty sister

The villainous Nancy was the half-sister of Terry Davidson (Mary Jean Feton), and was compared with another famous soap villain sibling, that of Love of Life
Love of Life
Love of Life is an American soap opera which aired on CBS Daytime from September 24, 1951 to February 1, 1980. It was created by Roy Winsor, whose previous creation Search for Tomorrow had premiered three weeks before Love of Life, and who would go on to create The Secret Storm two and a half years...

s Meg Dale
Meg Dale
Meg Dale Harper Andrews Aleata Hart was the second major female character and the main villain in the now-defunct American soap opera Love of Life...

. She, like her sister, lived in the fictional community of Kingsley. Terry worked as a head nurse at Kingsley Hospital. Nancy was also the aunt of Terry's children, Lori Martin and Peter Davidson.

She could be matched for villainy by the equally nasty Miriam Carpenter Mason (Ginger Burgette), who had an axe to grind against Lori for supposedly sleeping with her husband, Paul Mason, (to get even with Lori, she slept with her husband); Miriam later changed and became a better person, embracing Christianity with a vengeance, as the result of a harrowing kidnapping and a drug overdose. (Ironically, Miriam's father was once Nancy's lover.)

In a nod to how the late soap operas The Secret Storm
The Secret Storm
The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life...

 and Search for Tomorrow
Search for Tomorrow
Search for Tomorrow is an American soap opera which premiered on September 3, 1951 on CBS. The show was moved from CBS to NBC on March 29, 1982. It continued on NBC until the final episode aired on December 26, 1986, a run of thirty-five years. At the time of its final broadcast it was the...

(Both were created by Roy Winsor who also helped create Another Life) began, Nancy and Terry's mother, Nora Lindsay; as well as Terry's husband, Scott Davidson, died in an automobile accident.

Presumably, Nancy remained in Kingsley and was still making trouble for her sister and her family. Unlike Miriam, who, at least, tried and ultimately succeeded to change her life for the better; Nancy didn't and reveled in making trouble for her long-suffering sister and her family.

However, Nancy, villainous though she was, was indeed vulnerable enough to ask for help when she needed it, when she was terrorized by a woman named Vanessa Fazan. She had Lori's husband help her exorcise the evil Vanessa.
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