‘General Hospital’ Is 62: Kristina Wagner Looks Back at Four Decades of Felicia

Before joining General Hospital as Felicia Cummings in 1984, Kristina Wagner was vaguely aware of the popular soap. “When I was in college, I was a theater major, and I also worked in a flower shop,” the actress tells ReMIND. “I remember the Luke [Spencer, Tony Geary] and Laura [Baldwin, Genie Francis] wedding [in 1981], and all of the women that worked [at the flower shop] were quite a bit older than me. They were really big soap fans, and they kept running to the loading dock in the back to sneak in peeks of the wedding. I was left up front, so I didn’t really get to see it, but I remember the buzz and the excitement that they were having. It was pretty cute.” 

When Wagner moved out to California to join the show a mere three years later, it had recently marked its 23rd anniversary; today, it turns 62 and Wagner marvels that she’s an active part of the cast. “I didn’t know if I was going to be here that long — I thought it was going to be six weeks — because it was a trial,” she recalls of the early days.