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Sami Brady
Alison Sweeney as Sami Brady
Days of our Lives
Portrayed by Alison Sweeney (1993–2015, 2017–22)
Dan Wells (2005)
Current status Former; Recurring
Duration 1984–1992, 1993–2015, 2017–22
First appearance October 19, 1984
Last appearance July 2022
Cause/reason Left Town
Created by Margaret DePriest, Sheri Anderson and Thom Racina
Introduced by Betty Corday and Al Rabin
Profile
Fullname Samantha Gene Brady DiMera
Nickname(s) Sami
Hurricane Sami
Alias(es) Stan (male alter ego)
Colleen (witness protection)
Sami Reed
Sami Walker
Sami Roberts
Sami Hernandez
Namesake(s) Samantha Evans
Eugene Bradford
Gender Female
Born October 19, 1977 (onscreen October 19, 1984)
Age 43
Occupation Film

consultant
Receptionist
Businesswoman
Housewife
Director of Imaging

Residence Los Angeles (formerly)
Salem, Illinois (formerly)
Italy
Relationships
Family Brady
DiMera
Parents Roman Brady
Marlena Evans
John Black (step)
Siblings Eric Brady
D.J. Craig
Baby Evans-North
Belle Black
Carrie Brady
Rex Brady
Cassie Brady
Baby Brady
Brady Black (step)
Paul Narita (step)
Spouses Austin Reed (1996–97)
Brandon Walker (2003–05)
Lucas Horton (2007)
EJ DiMera (2007–08)
Rafe Hernandez (2010–12)
EJ DiMera (2014–present)
Romances Alan Harris
(dated; 1994)
(raped by; 1995)
Franco Kelly
(fiancée; 1998)
Brandon Walker
(lovers;1999-03)
(fiancée; 2003)
Austin Reed
(lovers;1994-95)
(fiancée; 1995)
(lovers; 2003)
(lovers;2005-06)
(fiancée; 2006)
EJ DiMera
(soulmates)
(kissed; 2006)
(dated; 2006)
(ONS; 2006)
(fiancée; 2007)
(lovers; 2008)
(lovers; 2010)
(fiancée; 2010)
(ONS; 2011)
(lovers;2013-14)
(fiancée; 2014)
Rafe Hernandez
(lovers; 2008-09)
(lovers; 2010)
(fiancée; 2010)
(kissed; 2012)
(lovers; 2013)
(ONS; 2017)
Lucas Horton
(dated; 1993-94)
(ONS; 1995)
(lovers; 2006-07)
(fiancée; 2007)
(kissed;2012)
(affair; 2021)
Arnold Fenniger
(lovers; 2011, as "Rafe")
Chad DiMera
(kissed; 2017)
Stefan DiMera
(kissed; 2018)
Children Will Horton
Johnny DiMera
Allie Horton
Sydney DiMera
Sydney DiMera Sr.(step)
Daniel DiMera(step)
Grandchildren Arianna Horton(via, Will; born 2013)
Henry Horton(via, Allie; born 2020)
Grandparents Shawn Brady
Frank Evans †
Caroline Brady
Martha Evans †
Aunts and uncles Bo Brady
Frankie Brady (adoptive)
Max Brady (adoptive)
Kimberly Brady
Kayla Brady
Samantha Evans
Nieces and nephews Claire Brady
Noah Reed
Emily Lockhart
Mackenzie Horton
First cousins Andrew Donovan IV
Theresa Donovan
Stephanie Johnson
Joey Johnson
Shawn Douglas Brady
Chelsea Brady
Zack Brady
Ciara Brady
Other relatives Tate Black (step-nephew/1st Cousin 1x Removed)
Rachel Black (step-nice)

Samantha "Sami" Gene Brady DiMera is a character from the soap opera Days of Our Lives, portrayed by Alison Sweeney.

Background

The character was born on-screen during the episode dated October 19, 1984, and her birth date was later SORASed to October 19, 1977. Introduced by then head writer Margaret DePriest, Sami has been portrayed by Sweeney since January 22, 1993. Sami is known for her failed relationships with men, her children and her manipulative trouble-making ways. She has been described as vindictive and the girl "you love to hate".

Sami has four children by two different fathers:

  • Will Horton a son with ex-husband Lucas Horton who conceived during a teenage love affair between Sami and Lucas and was born premature on November 16,1995 (revised to November 16,1992)and Sami had a c-section to save Will life’s at the hospital.
  • Johnny DiMera a son with ex-husband EJ DiMera he was conceived during a snowstorm between Sami and EJ who “raped her” and Johnny is born a twin and was born via C-section home birth on October 22, 2007 (revised to October 22,2000) but also Johnny is older then Allie by minute apart.
  • Allie Horton a daughter with ex-husband Lucas who was conceived during the sametime she was “raped by” EJ and Allie is a twin and was born via c-section home birth on October 22, 2007 (revised October 22, 2000) but also Allie is younger then Johnny by minutes apart.
  • Sydney DiMera a daughter with ex-husband EJ DiMera who was conceived during a love affair when her parent were set to divorce she is born on January 28, 2009 via natural hospital birth and she was stolen by her stepmother Nicole Walker who was pregnant at sametime as her mother by EJ but miscarried a daughter and the miscarriage led Nicole to adopt Chad DiMera and Mia McCormick daughter Grace DiMera but unfortunately Nicole gave Grace to Sami but Grace died in June of 2009 leaving Sami to grieve a daughter who wasn’t hers and Sydney was raised as Nicole and EJ daughter until November of 2009 when she was returned to her parents Sami and EJ.

In April 2015, it was announced that Sweeney would reprise the role of Sami in honor of the soap's fiftieth anniversary celebration.

Sweeney also made a number of appearance's from 2017-2019.

In December 2019, it was announced that Sweeney would return to the series in 2020, first airing on July 14.

Sami is reunited with her husband EJ the father of her two children Johnny DiMera and Sydney DiMera In 2018.

Sami has becomes a grandmother twice to two grandchildren Arianna via her son Will born in May of 2013 and Henry Horton via her daughter Allie born in the Summer of 2020 both Will and Allie are by Her Ex-husband Lucas.

Relationships

Sami is known for her relationships and many "failed trips to the altar". Janet Di Lauro of About.com said "No matter, Sami's always been a character who's fun to watch and root for as she's searched for her soul mate, time and time again." As a teenager, she developed a crush on Austin Reed (Austin Peck), but was "devastated" when he began dating her sister Carrie Brady (Christie Clark). She worked with Austin's brother Lucas to break up the couple. She ended up having a one night stand with Lucas. Di Lauro said Sami's most "diabolical plot" was drugging Austin to have sex with her, which was "the start of an elaborate scheme" where she ended up pregnant and named Austin as the father, although Lucas was the actual father. The truth was eventually revealed and Austin, after nearly marrying Sami without loving her, reunited with Carrie.

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Austin And Sami

A bitter custody battle ensued between Lucas and Sami, who had a "love/hate" relationship over the years. Of the pairing, Sweeney said "their past is such a deep relationship and ultimately a friendship and a trust that they have with each other." They ended up marrying, but it was "permanently ended" when EJ entered the picture. EJ, the son of longtime Crime lord Stefano DiMera, developed an obsession with Sami, and ended up controversially "raping" her. Sami became pregnant and gave birth to twins; her daughter's father is Lucas, and son's paternity belonged to EJ. EJ had asked Sami for sex to save Lucas' life, while he was trapped and nearly died. This led to a sham wedding between EJ and Sami, in exchange for the DiMeras ending the fifty-year family feud between the Brady family. Although she initially hated him, the couple ended up in a "night of passion" resulting in another pregnancy. Of whether EJ or Lucas was Sami's "true love," Sweeney said "I personally think Sami and Lucas truly love each other, but obviously a lot has gone on between them that has pushed them apart. Right now, they are writing Sami more focusing on EJ." She also said that she enjoyed working with Scott, and called him "enchanting." Of working with Dattilo, Sweeney said "I am definitely a long-standing Luca fan and I miss working with Bryan every day. He is so fun! I was in a scene the other day and looking around, like he and I have such a history together, for some inside joke and he wasn’t on the set. It’s just strange when I don’t get to work with him all the time."

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Brandon And Sami

TV Guide's Nelson Branco named Lucas and Sami one of soap's greatest super-couples, and said "For years all this couple could think of was breaking up Austin and Carrie, until one magical day, partners-in-crime and cohorts Sami and Lucas realized they were in love with each other! Now as Days’ reigning super couple, they face the evil wrath of EJ and his family, The DiMeras. Will Sami marry EJ, the man who raped her to end this family feud forever — and will Lucas be able to forgive her?" Despite this, the couple divorced and despite minor reunions since, haven't been a couple. James Scott said "They’re not really re-visiting it. They have never done it. I think it’s about time, frankly. There is a good opportunity for story there. Alison Sweeney (Sami) and I work very well together. It’s sort of a fairy tale. They don’t play it so much now, but the Brady's and the DiMeras have a history." Scott also noted that EJ and Sami "love each other" but not necessarily in a romantic way. On-Air On-Soaps said "legions of fans are waiting for their beloved EJami duo to finally start a full-blown romance ... something that has been teased, and teased, and teased for years." Her romances with Lucas and EJ have been popular with viewers, who call the pairings 'Lumi' and 'Ejami.'

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Lucas And Sami

Upon Lucas' return to Days of our Lives in 2012, a poll ran by Soap Opera Digest revealed that majority of fans wanted Lucas and Sami back together. While in the Witness Protection Program while pregnant with her second child with EJ, Sami fell in love with her body guard Rafe. When asked who out of Lucas, EJ or Rafe should be with Sami, Sweeney said "You can't ask that," because "that is one topic I am now scared to talk about because you say one thing and the fans get all kinds of crazy on you." She said that it's so interesting to see how Sami has "grown and changed" and feels that the "relationship with Rafe is definitely a different one from the way she’s been in the past." Fans refer to Sami and Rafe as 'Safe'. Sweeney said that it's been fun getting "to know Galen" and said "We have fun working together, and it’s nice. It’s a new, different storyline for Sami."

Sami is reunited with her husband EJ DiMera after believing he died in 2014 right next to her and is later revealed that EJ not so dead adopted sister Kristen kept EJ alive and took him hostage as a plot for revenge and Sami returned to Salem for her mother Marlena and step-father John wedding only to exposed Kristen really alive and was pretending to be EJ mother Susan and Sami held Kristen at gunpoint demanding where was EJ and Kristen later confess after Sami brother Eric caused her to miss fire on their mother Marlena leaving their mother to be rushed to the hospital and Eric agreed to help Sami look for EJ only to discover Nicole was there around town where was EJ as Sami and Eric with Nicole trying recover EJ that Nicole ended up presumed dead herself but really Kristen held her hostage with daughter Holly leaving Eric heartbroken and Sami is finally reunited with EJ who covered in bandages and was comatose throughout his kidnapping and Sami with EJ mother Susan was always present at his bedside and Sami didn’t want Susan to kill EJ so they agree to put him in living center where he‘s recovering with their children Johnny and Sydney watching over him and where Sami spend all her off-screen time since her departure then returned to her see that her brother Eric is married to alive Nicole and the two fight over her daughter Allie’s pregnancy.

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Sami And Rafe

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Sami And EJ

Children

Sami is mother to four children: Will Horton, Johnny DiMera, Allie Horton, Sydney DiMera, and believed that Grace Brady was her daughter as well. Grace had been switched at birth with Sydney. Grace has since died and Sydney returned to Sami to raise. Janet Di Lauro of About.com said "While Sami wouldn’t exactly be called lucky at love, let’s face it, most of her couplings have been wildly dysfunctional, her romances have produced four beautiful children: Will, Allie, Johnny and Sydney."

By 2009, Will was 16 years old; Sweeney said "It’s sort of overwhelming to me sometimes to realize my character has a sixteen-year-old," considering she started working on Days of our Lives at 16, but she enjoys the dynamics between Will and Sami. In 2012, Sami and Lucas' son Will came out as gay. While Lucas was accepting, Sami was initially "responsible for the other point of view," according to Dattilo. Sweeney said viewers can expect Sami to "have a traditional Sami reaction," because it's "such a vulnerable moment." Sweeney explained that Sami thinks it's because of her, and "She has to sort through all of those feelings and talk to lots of people in Salem about it." She added "Sami loves her son so much, but she just always seems to say the wrong thing. She always puts her foot in her mouth."

Storylines

Samantha Gene Brady is born on October 16, 1984 (changed to October 16, 1977 when the character was rapidly-aged) with her twin brother Eric Brady to Marlena Evans and Roman Brady. Sami is named after her deceased aunt, Samantha Evans and Marlena's best friend, Eugene Bradford. A feud between the Brady family and the powerful DiMera family puts the infants in danger. Roman sends them to live in Colorado after their mother's disappearance.

In 1993, Sami reappears in Salem as a teenager. She develops a crush on her sister's boyfriend, Austin Reed. She is traumatized after seeing her mother having sex with John Black which leads to an affair that results in the birth of Sami's sister, Belle Black. At the time, Marlena was "married" to Roman. Sami's mental health spirals downward, and she becomes a bulimic in an attempt to lose weight. Sami later tells Marlena that she witnessed her having sex with John. Knowing that she is John's child, Sami, who volunteers at the Salem Hospital, switches Belle's blood test. She then kidnaps Belle and places her on the black market. John rescues Belle on Christmas Eve. On Belle's christening, Stefano DiMera shows Roman Sami's diary which reveals the affair and Belle's paternity. Roman leaves Marlena, devastating Sami.

Sami befriends Lucas Horton and dates his friend Alan Harris, whom her family strongly opposes. Sami's best friend Jamie overhears Alan talk about being in love with Carrie Brady, but keeps this from Sami. Frustrated by his unrequited love for Carrie, Alan rapes Sami. Sami confides in Lucas, but without corroborating proof, the press vilifies Sami as a liar once the news gets out. Alan tries to rape her again, and she stops him by shooting him in the groin. Distraught, Lucas manages to comfort Sami; and they have sex. She still, however, has a crush on Austin and drugs him into bed so he would believe she was Carrie. After her divorce from Roman, Marlena becomes vulnerable and is possessed by the devil. While possessed, Marlena tells Sami to seduce Austin. She tries, but Austin rejects her. Sami leaves town in February 1995.

Sami returns in July of that year and crashes Austin's wedding to Carrie claiming that she is carrying his child. After a rough teen pregnancy, Sami gives birth to William Robert Reed on November 16, 1995. Sami hides the fact that Will is actually Lucas' son, and passes him off as Austin's. Austin and Sami are engaged and plan to wed. However, he leaves her at the altar after Carrie uncovers the truth about Will's paternity. Sami renames her son William Reed Roberts and leaves town. She returns and befriends Franco Kelly (Victor Alfieri). They become engaged; Franco is using her to get a green card and stay in the country. He is murdered on their wedding day. Sami sees the body and faints near it. Lucas's mother Kate Roberts frames Sami for the murder so that she will go to jail and Lucas can have full custody of Will. Sami is convicted and sentenced to death for the murder. In the middle of her execution via injection, Lucas confesses to the murder in an attempt to save her life. Unbeknownst to Lucas, Roberto signed a false confession on his death bed which leads to a stay of execution from the governor. Sami is freed and falls in love with Brandon Walker, who helps her regain full custody of Will. Brandon and Sami are married briefly. However, her lies and schemes end the marriage. Sami has an accident at the DiMera mansion and falls through the window. Lucas helps her recover and they fall in love. The become engaged, much to Kate's chagrin. Kate drugs Sami and places her in Brandon's bed the night before her marriage to Lucas in a bid to end the engagement. Lucas leaves Sami.

Sami's sorely compromised psychological state deteriorates to such a degree that Sami begins to work for Tony DiMera, becomes a transvestite under an assumed name, "Stan", and sells illicit drugs to a pain-wracked John Black, all out of a base-born, suppositions need for revenge. Attempting to redeem herself, Sami convinces Lucas that Kate had set her up; that she was never unfaithful. The two reunite and agree to marry once again.

Lucas believes that Sami has changed for the better, but Kate reveals Sami's misdeeds as "Stan," and Lucas calls off the wedding. Austin Reed returns to Salem and befriends Sami. Carrie Brady also returns after ending her relationship with Mike Horton. Lucas and Austin, now business rivals, attempt to buy out Carrie's company. Lucas backs out, finding out that Carrie runs the entire company, and that once again, Sami manipulated him. Austin and Carrie fall back in love and plan their future together when Carrie learns that Austin's company has taken over High-style. Carrie dates Lucas on the rebound. Austin does the same with Sami, and both couples become engaged.

Sami's relationship to Austin is tested however, when E.J. Wells, an English race car driver, moves into the apartment next to theirs. When Sami and Austin's wedding ends in disaster, EJ and Sami kiss for the first time. Carrie ends her relationship with Lucas and remarries Austin. They leave to start a life together in Switzerland.

Sami turns to E.J., and the two begin dating. Sami then discovers that not only is c sleeping with Kate but that he is also Stefano's son. Sami and Lucas rekindle their love in spite of Kate, and the two decide to take a road trip. Their car breaks down in a snow storm, and they seek shelter in an abandoned cabin where they make love. Weighed down by snow, the crumbling ceiling caves in. Lucas is trapped, Sami runs to get help, meets up with E.J. in a snow drift, and asks him to help her. Revealing himself as a true DiMera, E.J. agrees to help Sami only if she has sex with him. In subsequent weeks, E.J. continues to taunt Sami with reminders of the deal they made that night. Sami tells Lucas about her pregnancy and they get married; the night of their wedding, he learns about E.J. raping her. Her pregnancy was full of speculation about who the father of her unborn twins were. She later gives birth to John "Johnny" Roman Roberts (later legally changed to John Roman DiMera) and Alice "Allie" Caroline Horton. It was revealed after a paternity test that E.J. was Johnny's father and Allie was Lucas' daughter. Sami makes the painful decision to end her marriage to Lucas and marry E.J. to end the Brady-DiMera feud. At her wedding to E.J., Lucas, Marlena and Kate attempt to shoot E.J. Lucas is arrested and sent to prison, and Will leaves for Switzerland. It is later revealed that Will was the actual shooter and Lucas went to prison to protect his son.

E.J. tries to take custody of Johnny. But immigration wants to deport E.J., and Sami helps him by moving into the DiMera mansion with Johnny to show to immigration that they are a happily married couple. They have sex, and Lucas, released on house arrest, sees them at it. Although Sami ends her marriage to E.J., Lucas doesn't forgive her. E.J. moves on to Nicole Walker, and Sami finds out she is pregnant again. She doesn't tell E.J., and after witnessing a murder, she goes into witness protection. She befriends her guard, Rafe Hernandez, and gives birth to a daughter. Nicole miscarries E.J.'s child but pretends to still be pregnant and secretly illegally adopts a baby girl to pass off to E.J. as their own. Nicole then finds out that Sami's baby daughter is actually E.J.'s and she secretly switches the two baby girls, so that E.J. will be raising a child that is biologically his. Nicole's switch works and she begins raising Sami's child, Sydney DiMera, as her own. Sami is in love with Rafe, and together they raise the baby, named Grace DiMera, believing Sami gave birth to her. Grace contracts meningitis and dies, and Sami confesses to E.J. that Grace was "his", and E.J. is furious. Eventually, the baby switch is revealed and Sami is reunited with Sydney. But for revenge against Sami, E.J. kidnaps Sydney and makes everyone think she is dead. But he falls back in love with Sami and returns Sydney to her, pretending to be the hero. E.J. and Sami reconnect, and after her relationship with Rafe ends, she becomes engaged to E.J. However, at the wedding, Rafe presents evidence to Sami that E.J. was behind Sydney's kidnapping. She leaves E.J. for Rafe, and discovers that he had a plan to kidnap both his children and take them away forever. To stop him, she shoots him in the head. Rafe proposes to her while E.J. narrowly escapes death. He later wins full custody of the children and Sami marries Rafe. Johnny is diagnosed with eye cancer and she regains joint custody. After allowing Johnny and Sydney back into their mother's life, Stefano and E.J. switch Rafe with an impostor whose face they surgically alter so he can pose as Rafe's double.

The DiMeras' schemes are eventually revealed, and after some months, the real Rafe is reunited with Sami. During a family get-together for John Black, Johnny goes missing and Sami rushes to the DiMera mansion insisting that E.J. has him. They see in a news report that Johnny has "died" and in their grief, have sex, and Will sees them at it! However, the news report turns out to be false and Johnny is found alive and well. Will is angry with his mom for being unfaithful to Rafe, and when Rafe finds out about it Sami's marriage to Rafe ends. Lucas returns to town and Sami and Lucas reconnect. They are taken aback when Will reveals to them that he is gay. Sami initially runs out on Will, but she soon comes round to support him. Stefano is apparently murdered, and E.J. is held responsible, and Sami decides to help prove his innocence, much to Lucas's dismay. Sami's reunion with Lucas ends. Stefano is revealed to be alive, and E.J. is cleared for murder.

Sami starts to feel torn between E.J. and Rafe. Rafe and Sami agree to give their relationship a second chance. Sami plans Gabi Hernandez and Nick Fallon's wedding, wanting to tell E.J. her decision after the wedding. However, during the wedding, it is revealed that Nick isn't the father of Gabi's unborn baby – Will is. Sami is furious with Gabi, and Rafe defends his sister, insulting Will in the process. Sami is furious and breaks up with Rafe. Sami eventually tells E.J. about Rafe and her plan to leave him. E.J. forgives her, and they reunite. Nick demands Will sign away his paternal rights to the baby. When Sami, Lucas, and E.J. try to stop him, Nick reveals that he knows Will was responsible for shooting E.J. in 2007. Will signs away his rights to avoid being prosecuted, and Sami is devastated. She and E.J. team up to stop Nick's blackmail of Will. When Stefano returns, Sami and E.J. decide to get his help to destroy evidence the police has against Will. Sami and E.J. stay together through the situation, and become engaged in April 2013.

Soon after, Rafe is attacked, and ends up in a coma. Initially, the police suspect E.J., as does Sami, but she eventually realizes his innocence. The real attacker, Jensen, is revealed to be targeting Nick. He kidnaps Nick and Gabi, and ends up shooting Will when he tries to rescue Nick. Sami comes to the hospital and finds out Gabi's baby was born; she meets her granddaughter, Arianna Grace, for the first time. Sami visits Rafe while in the hospital, and while there, sees a man come in with a knife about to kill Rafe. Sami shoots him to protect Rafe. E.J. tries to calm her down, while Roman and the police search for the missing knife. Sami and E.J. realize the man she shot was a police officer who was working for Stefano; the officer dies after surgery, and the knife is never recovered. Sami is arrested for murder by Roman. Once exonerated, Sami and E.J. marry, only for E.J. to be arrested for tax fraud; Sami confronts both E.J. and Abigail Deveraux for the affair the pair had behind her back, and uses her power to take DiMera Enterprises away from the DiMera family with Kate. Sami begins to forgive and re-trust EJ and they re-unite, but E.J. is shot in the Salem park, and Sami finds him just before he dies. It is October 2014, and Sami, overcome with grief, accepts a movie deal with Hollywood executives to build a story about her life, with Will penning the screenplay, and she and the children relocate to Los Angeles. When Will is fired from the movie, he goes back to Salem where, in October 2015, he is apparently murdered by Abigail's new fiancé, Ben Weston.

Sami comes back to Salem to mourn Will. Whilst in Salem she discovers that Ben's father Clyde Weston was the one who had gotten EJ shot, and she also finds a letter from EJ which leads her to believe EJ might be alive. The letter contains instructions which lead Sami to a safe deposit box containing the passwords to Stefano's bank account, but she is kidnapped by Stefano's son Andre DiMera who wants the passwords from her. Sami escapes and she steals Stefano's fortune. She takes the kids around Europe as she pursues clues that EJ may still be alive. In October 2017 she learns that Ben Weston has escaped from custody, and is claiming that Will is alive, and Sami once again returns to Salem to find out the truth. In 2021, Sami begins having an affair with her ex husband Lucas Horton. Kristen DiMera finds out, and sends EJ DiMera a letter, exposing Sami. After finding out, EJ confronts Sami and kicks her to the curb. Sami is then seen being kidnapped.

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