When it comes to soap opera supercouples, Luke and Laura were it for General Hospital. But on All My Children, it was Dr. Cliff Warner and Nina Cortlandt.
The power couple, played by Peter Bergman and Taylor Miller, ruled AMC in the 1980s. The Pine Valley pair’s decade-long daytime TV romance was full of on and offs and ups and downs, but fans witnessed four separate wedding ceremonies before the couple rode off into the sunset to Denver in 1989.
Bergman went on to a long run on The Young & the Restless, playing Jack Abbott, while Miller scaled back from acting but made a few return cameos on AMC in the 1990s and for the series’ 40th anniversary in 2010.
During a recent appearance on the SOAPY podcast, Bergman, 72, looked back on his time on All My Children, which ended its 41-year run in 2011. The actor noted that one of his “favorite things to play as an actor is falling in love.”
He also revealed that while he never returned to AMC after 1989, he remains friendly with his four-time TV wife.
“That was my first experience as a supercouple,” Bergman said of the Cliff and Nina pairing. “And that, of course, was the years of the crest of the daytime wave. We didn’t know it at the time that daytime would never be bigger than that. It was just completely crazy, and Taylor and I weathered that together and still have a lifelong friendship.”
Of why he and Miller left AMC at the same time, Bergman did not blame his co-star for wanting to move on to other things.
“It was a confluence of things that happened at exactly the right or wrong time,” he said. “The wrong time, as I was not ready to go. These were my family at the time. I had really made some wonderful friendships there, and the absolute right timing because it landed me on The Young and the Restless.”
In 2018, Miller told Voyage Chicago that she was ready for a change after several years on the New York-based soap opera.
“I left All My Children, where I had played Nina Cortlandt for many years, and moved to LA and tried my hand at acting on that coast,” she shared. “I had some success in 10 months. … I met the man who was to become my husband, left LA, and moved back to NYC to work on Another World for a short time and then back to AMC.”
“I finally made the decision to leave AMC, move to Chicago to marry Eli [Tullis],” she further explained of her 1989 departure from the daytime drama series.
Miller also looked back fondly on her supercouple status with Bergman and how well the actor handled their soap opera fame at the time.
“Peter was always very generous with me,” Miller told Smashing Interviews. “I think he had a lot more maturity than I did, and I think that he saw that we needed to work in order for him to work. … He understood more of the business than I did. I was more serendipitous, of course.”
Of the All My Children couple’s four marriages, the actress joked, “You really gotta leave if they keep marrying you to the same person over and over. It’s like you need to come up with something else, or I’ve got to go!”
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