Frankie Hubbard
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| Franklin Quentin Hubbard | |||||||||||||||||
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| All My Children Loving The City |
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| Portrayed by | Durrant Murphy, Jr. (AMC, 1984) Z. Wright (AMC, 1986-1991) Alimi Ballard (Loving, 1993-1995; The City, 1995-1996) Jason Olive (AMC, 2002) Cornelius Smith Jr. (AMC, December 2007-present) |
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| First appearance | November 1983 (on All My Children) |
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| Nickname(s) | Frank Frankie |
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| Aliases | Quentin | ||||||||||||||||
| Age | 25 | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Intern at Pine Valley Hospital Former film student Former medical student Iraq War veteran |
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| Residence | Pine Valley, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||
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Dr. Frankie Hubbard, M.D. (born Franklin Quentin Hubbard) is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, All My Children. He is the son of soap opera supercouple Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter.
Frankie has also appeared on Loving and The City. Along with his mother Angie Baxter Hubbard and former heiress Skye Chandler, he is one of only three individuals who have been regular characters on three ABC soap operas.
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[edit] Beginnings
Frankie Hubbard is the product of a night of passion between young newlyweds Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter. Virginal Angie insisted that Jesse marry her before they could consummate their relationship. The two eloped and their honeymoon resulted in Angie's pregnancy. Afraid to tell Jesse, Angie confides in her mother. Angie is sure Jesse's feelings toward her have changed, so she decides to put the child up for adoption.
Jesse and Angie reconcile and once Jesse finds out he has a son, they kidnap the child and flee. The saga has a happy ending once a judge restores custody back to them. The couple remarry and name the boy after Jesse's recently deceased uncle Dr. Frank Grant.
After his mother's broken engagement to Cliff Warner, Frankie and his mother leave Pine Valley (Jesse, who joined the Pine Valley Police Department, seemingly died several years earlier in the line of duty).
[edit] Life on Loving and The City
Aged by several years, Frankie turns up in Corinth, Pennsylvania with Angie. He falls in love with Briana Hawkins, a young girl with a troubled alcoholic mother. A strange turn of events happen when Briana finds out that Frankie's soon-to-be stepfather, Charles Harrison, was Briana's long lost father. Briana ended things with Frankie, and soon he and his mother moved to New York City's SoHo district. Frankie decides to go to film school. He is almost killed in an explosion when a racist hate group target his family when his mother and new stepfather, Jacob Foster (a dead ringer for Jesse) take in a Caucasian foster child named Kayla. Eventually, Frankie transfers to a film school in California.
[edit] Back to Pine Valley: 2002
Somewhere along the line Frankie abandons his plans to become a filmmaker and goes to medical school. Calling himself simply "Frank", he returns to Pine Valley to fulfill his internship at Pine Valley Hospital. Frank begins dating Simone Torres and finds old flame, Mia Saunders. Mia confides in Frank that they have a son, William, who she gave up for adoption. Frank is adamant about finding his son, but Mia pleads with him not to disrupt the child's life. Simone soon comes upon the shocking footage of her brother Anthony overdosing on a city street. Frank confesses he shot the footage and cared more about his "documentary" than helping Anthony. A devastated Simone ends things with Frank. Frank drops off canvas soon after.
[edit] Surprise return: 2007/2008
In late 2007, AMC introduced the character "Quentin", who helped Aidan Devane in the search for the missing Greenlee Smythe and Zach Slater. In January 2008, it was revealed that "Quentin" is actually Frankie Hubbard.[1] His affliction with a rare illness serves as the catalyst for Angie's return to Pine Valley. It also leads to the re-emergence of Jesse, who -- despite evidence to the contrary -- is very much alive (He was abducted and his captors faked his death).
On January 30, 2008, Angie told her medical colleagues that Frankie was in his "mid-20s", and on February 5, 2008 Frankie stated that Jesse died when he was 5 years old (which would make Frankie 25 years old as of 2008). Apparently, the character has been "de-aged", reversing the rapid aging that took place when Frankie moved to Loving. His given age now aligns properly with the fact that his character was introduced as a newborn in 1983.
Frankie signs up to finish his internship at Pine Valley Hospital. Angie later discovers, much to her dismay, that he only signed up to find out who kidnapped his father. Her fears prove to be well-founded when Frankie is kidnapped, along with Liza Colby's daughter Colby Chandler, by the apparent mastermind behind Jesse's abduction. Unbeknownest to the Hubbards, that person is Tad Martin's biological uncle Robert Gardner.
Recently, Frankie revealed to Jesse that he made an error in judgment during his tour of duty in Iraq, and that error allowed a 15 year old Iraqi to kill three of Frankie's fellow soldiers in a suicide attack.
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