Biography

Jay is five feet, eleven inches tall, has brown hair and green eyes. Jay Pickett is a self-confessed neat freak. According to him, he’s always been that way. He enjoys most sports, including football, basketball, baseball and skiing. He is also an expert roper and western rider.

In the late eighties he began to have small guest roles in television series and movies. Have a look at his credits page. But it's hard to make a living that way and Jay had to occasionally take other jobs. He drove the Super Shuttle in California and once picked up Nicholas Pryor (Victor). The seasoned actor was nice enough to give a young Jay some advice. (And, no we don't know what it was.) Like his character, Jay Pickett also used to substitute teach on occasion

In the nineties he continued to make guest appearances on Prime Time television, including Matlock and a Raymond Burr-less, Perry Mason movie. He also appeared in the feature film Rumplestilskin (with DS9 actor Max Grodenchick) and had his first soap opera appearance as Dr. Chip Lakin on Days of Our Lives

He's been married since 1986 to wife Elena, a national sales manager. He has two daughters, Maegan and Michaela. For Christmas, Jay Pickett and his family always drive home to Idaho and Oregon to see both sides of the family. No Los Angeles Christmas for them.

Jay's been with Port Charles since it's premiere in 1997, delivering consistently great performances in the storylines he's given. And that's really all we know about him.

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Frank Scanlon

The first night of the show, Frank helped to rescue his brother and the other interns from crazy Greg Cooper who was holding them hostage in an unfinished part of the hospital. Frank promptly became involved with intern Dr. Julie Morris (Lisa Ann Hadley), who rented the basement in the Scanlon house. Frank and Julie stayed together despite the fact that he found out she was lying about her true identity. She was really the daughter of the famous Dr. Bennett "I am such a jerk" Devlin. (Edward Albert) Of course, when he came to town, he tried to break up Frank and his little princess, Julie. There's probably many a moment when Frank wishes he had taken that coaching job and the beamer and saved himself a lot of trouble down the line. But Frank was immune to Devlin's string-pulling and decided to stay with Julie.

Frank then got involved in the life of teenager Lark (Anastasia Horne), a student in one of his claseses. Lark was neglected and abused by her alcoholic mother. But she was mistrustful of Frank's helping hand, sure at first that he could only be interested in her sexually. When her mother had to be carted off, Lark came to live with Frank as a foster child, much to Julie's chagrin. Frank's desperate efforts to help Lark came to a climax when she threatened to jump off the GH roof. But it was Frank who fell when he tried to rescue her.

Frank hovered on the brink of death for days, until Bennet Devlin secretly gave him an experimental drug, DL56 stolen from Karen Wexler and Jake Marshak, that regenerated Frank's nerves. Unfortunately it also caused addiction and changes in brain chemistry that made Frank increasingly violent and cranky. Which might be why he didn't notice that Julie was becoming increasingly violent and cranky too. Her father was the first of the General Homicide victims, and the mystery coincided with Frank's addiction problems with DL56, which he got first from Devlin and then from Chris Ramsey.

By the time Julie was revealed as "the killer" brainwashed by Greg "It's like Visa, I'm everywhere" Cooper, Frank's addiction was out in the open and Karen had helped him to kick the habit. Julie went to prison and Frank was unaware that she was carrying his child. A shaky Frank, still moody and temperamental, was then drawn into the life of Courtney Kanelos, Joe's former paramour (and Frank's) who had this cute kid with cancer, Neil, whom she was passing off as Joe's son. She wanted Joe and she wanted Frank to help her get Joe away from Karen. So they came up with a plan to make Karen think Joe was a pervert. It included Frank and Courtney keeping Karen under constant observation from a seedy apartment across the street. It almost worked, but eventually Joe and Karen survived the manipulations.

However when Neil got sick again, it was revealed (to anyone's surprise?) that Frank and not Joe was really Neil's father. For some reason Joe got mad at Karen for this and it did break them up. But by then Courtney had decided that she was really in love with the real father of her son, Frank. And they got themselves an apartment and settled down to pretend domesticity. Frank (still a bit on the wild side) got himself into trouble, gambling and what not, to support his new family. It was also reavealed that Julie had delivered a child that had been adopted by Scott Baldwin. But little Christina was of course Frank's daughter. He wasn't going to tear Christina away from her family, but he did want to at least see his child. He got one visit and was bonked on the head by crazy Julie, who kidnapped her daughter and was never heard from again.

Frank became increasingly stable, more and more like his former nice self, settling down to work at the Recovery Room and as a Paramedic. Courtney stayed true to form and was scheming, greedy and deceptive. Eventually she alienated Frank, by, among other things, getting him arrested for harboring a fugitive (the innocent Jamal), and revealing to a seedy newspaper that Joe had been exposed to the AIDS virus. Courtney's naughty deeds were laid out for the town to see on video at one of Amanda Barrington's fancy parties. She left town in disgrace, and went back to Europe to pursue her career as a party planner. Frank kept custody of son Neil who was none to happy with his Mom.

Time in a Bottle - April 2001. This story is the second book presented in Port Charles' new format. The first was Fate which did not involve Frank. Though they did show some of the beginning of his courtship of Karen during that. This included a condiment fight you could see coming from a light year away.

The "second book" however focuses the story on Frank and Karen. The two of them, along with Rhonda and Scott attend a charity auction where they spot a very old computer. Rhonda comments that it was like one her father had and Karen said she liked the computer. Frank buys the computer as a gift for Karen. They try to put it in her place, but it doesn't fit. Frank takes it to his garage where he devotes a lot of time to flirting with Karen and getting the computer in working order.

Karen goes away to attend a special medical seminar (Marie Wilson's maternity leave) and while she's gone Frank begins to exchange messages with someone through the computer. The creepy computer, Nellie, can do this sans modem, or even being plugged in. He is talking with "Cookie" a troubled teenager. He attempts to be her friend and give her good advice, as she deals with the death of someone close to her and starts drinking. When Karen gets back Frank is beginning to be aware that "Cookie" believes that the year is 1973, and he may be communicating over time. Karen doesn't believe a word of it and thinks Frank is obsessed. She worries about his behavior and her mother's alcoholism and her own fear that she will start popping pills again to deal with stress.

Frank tries to prove Cookie exists, by carbon-dating a carving at Kelly's and having Cookie leave a message behind a brick in the wall. Convinced himself, he goes on a bender to deal with the fact that he is face to face with a time anomaly. Karen, dealing with the secret that she is a "match" for the liver-needin' Arianna, almost dumps Frank for his behavior. But they make up and consummate their relationship. She decides to help Arianna and warns Frank to be careful and not screw around with time. He forgets her advice and i.m.s a drunken Cookie, not to go to the shcool dance and sleep with that boy she likes. As Karen walks through the hospital she fades out of existence. Frank's advice has caused Karen never to be concieved.

A frantic Frank searches for a Karen that no one else remembers. He finds a destitute, drunken Rhonda who never had a daughter and was carted off to a mental ward in 1973 because she thought her computer talked to her. Family and Friends are ready to throw a butterfly net over Frank, who pretends everything is cool and convinces Ian and his imported new-age Voo-Doo doctor, "The Chief" that Karen is the key to saving a fading Arianna. The Chief provides a drug that can send Frank back in time, more or less, to 1973.

To Be Continued

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