EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Andrea Evans Reflects on Her 'One Life to Live' Days and Previews Her Latest Role in Dark Comedy 'Dinner at Home Between Deaths'

Andrea Evans was honored at the 6th Annual Indie Series Awards in
2015 for her work on the hit digital series, DeVanity. Photo Credit:
The Headshot Truck

As Tina Lord on ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live, Andrea Evans often had a hand in unscrupulous and far-fetched schemes. As Kat in her new play “Dinner at Home Between Deaths,” currently running at the Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles until May 8th, Evans plays the whistleblower who instigates the collapse of a Ponzi scheme. Also unlike many of her stories in daytime, “Dinner at Home Between Deaths” is a black comedy, a genre Evans said she relishes. “When I come into the play, that’s when things start coming out,” she said.

“I love comedy when you’re almost afraid to be the first person to laugh,” Evans said in a phone interview. Her voice was warm and easy—but still had the vulnerable, slight quiver characteristic of Tina Lord.

Its dark humor drew her to the play and the role of Kat, she says, along with how timely the topic is, in light of Bernie Madoff duping investors and Senator Bernie Sanders indicting all of Wall Street is corrupt in stump speeches across the country as he campaigns to win the Democratic nomination for President.

WATCH: New Episode of DEVANITY Features Guest Star Andrea Evans and the Return of Kyle Lowder

On this week's new episode of DEVANITY, Portia (Katie Apicella) squares off with Scarlett (Tiffany Michelle) after finding a new home for Preston Regis (Indie Series Award nominee Gordon Thomson), Jason (Michael Caruso) and Andrew (Indie Series Award nominee Kyle Lowder) continue to be at odds, and Jason's mother (guest star Andrea Evans) arrives with a gift for the son she hasn't seen in over 30 years. Watch "Revelations" below:

DEVANITY Season 4 Trailer Released

ISA winner Michael Caruso's brilliant web series, DEVANITY, returns on February 13 for its fourth and final season. The Season 4 trailer has now been released and reveals a sneak peek at some of the show's upcoming guest stars like Andrea Evans, Sheree J. Wilson, Steve Kanaly, and the returning Gordon Thomson and Kyle Lowder. Watch it below:

Andrea Evans To Guest Star In DEVANITY

Actress Andrea Evans is joining the cast of Indie Soap Award-winning web series DEVANITY as Vivian Price, the vicious and vengeful mother of Jason DeVanity (Michael Caruso). After being missing for over thirty years, Vivian reemerges to lash out at Preston Regis (Gordon Thomson) for the crimes he committed against her family, and to give her son Jason vital information to help build his business empire.

Best known for her portrayal of Tina Lord Roberts from ABC's ONE LIFE TO LIVE, the Emmy-nominated actress also starred as Rebecca Hotchkiss Crane on NBC's PASSIONS, as as Amber's mother, Tawny, in THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL and THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS.

“Andrea is a beloved and iconic daytime star so when it came time to cast Jason's mother, I couldn't think of a better actress to play her” said DEVANITY executive producer Michael Caruso.

CLASSIC CLIPS: Tina Goes Over the Falls in ONE LIFE TO LIVE, Then Shows Up at Cord & Kate's Wedding

In 1987 on ONE LIFE TO LIVE, a pregnant Tina went over the falls in Argentina and was presumed dead. The next year she showed up very much alive with her (actually, Gabrielle's) baby in tow just in time for Cord and Kate's wedding. Watch both clips below:

50 Greatest Soap Couples: #26 Cord & Tina From ONE LIFE TO LIVE

COUPLE: Cord Roberts & Tina Lord
SHOW: ONE LIFE TO LIVE
RANK: 26
PLAYED BY:
Cord: John Loprieno
Tina: Andrea Evans, Karen Witter, Krista Tesreau
YEARS: 1986-1991, 1993-1997, 2008, 2011

STORY:
When Tina read a letter Maria Roberts (BarBara Luna) had sent to Clint Buchanan (Clint Ritchie), she had no idea it would change her life forever.  Tina flew to El Paso to find out more about Maria and ended up meeting and falling in love with her son, Cord.  Tina became engaged to Richard Abbott but called off the wedding when Mitch Laurence (Roscoe Born) revealed that Cord was really Clint's son.  Tina and Cord got married and Tina blackmailed Asa into giving him a million dollar inheritance supposedly from Al Roberts, the man he thought was his father.  Cord eventually found out and dumped Tina.

CLASSIC CLIP: Tina & Cord in ONE LIFE TO LIVE 1986

Cord and Tina fell in love in 1993 on ONE LIFE TO LIVE. Watch some of the highlights in the clip below:

CLASSIC CLIP: Tina's Dating Game Fantasy on ONE LIFE TO LIVE

In 1988 Tina was trying to decide between Cord, Max and Bo on ONE LIFE TO LIVE. The show did a take-off THE DATING GAME to help her sort out the issue. Watch the clip below: