Lena Kundera
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Lena Kundera was a fictional character in the popular American Soap Opera All My Children. She was played by polish actress, Olga Sosnovska.
[edit] Polish Businesswoman
Lena came to the United States to work in business. She was a successful European businesswoman, who had the misfortune to be working with one Michael Cambias. She had been hired by Michael to help him in a hostile takeover of several corporations in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania. Also, Michael and Lena had been an item during their time in Europe.
Their vicious aim was to get Erica Kane to sell her cosmetics company, Enchantment. (As well as Palmer Cortlandt to sell Cortlandt Enterprises, and Adam Chandler to sell Chandler Enterprises, and Kendall Hart to sell her cosmetic company, Fusion) However, things didn't work out as they had hoped. This drove the evil Michael, who didn't take failure well, to lash out at those who displeased him.
Lena had met and fallen deeply in love with Bianca, Erica's lesbian daughter. At first, it was a hoax, set up by Michael, but eventually she really fell in love. Although she deeply cared for Bianca, she was still beholden to Michael, and it naturally broke Bianca's heart to see Lena in bed with Michael.
Eventually, Lena freed herself from Michael's control and thus began her relationship with Bianca anew. The pair's first kiss as a couple (chaste by Soap Opera standards) marked the first lesbian kiss ever on daytime television. Their relationship ended some time after Bianca was brutally raped by Michael.
What he did to Bianca, certainly earned him Lena's hatred. At the so-called "funeral" for Michael, after he was found killed in a meat freezer, she angrily spit on his grave, as she felt that he robbed Bianca of a lot of things in her life. Eventually, she discovered that Bianca had been impregnated by Michael, and she eventually gave birth to her daughter, Miranda. Lena was a support to both Bianca and Maggie Stone, during the time when Miranda had been called "Bess".
She left Pine Valley, months later, to return to Poland to care for her ailing mother. By this time, she and Bianca had clearly broken up.
