| Amanda Howard | |||||||||||
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| Days Of Our Lives | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Mary Frann | ||||||||||
| Current status | Former; Regular | ||||||||||
| Duration | 1974-79 | ||||||||||
| First appearance | April 3, 1974 | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | September 21, 1979 | ||||||||||
| Cause/reason | Left Town | ||||||||||
| Created by | William J. Bell | ||||||||||
| Introduced by | Betty Corday | ||||||||||
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| Alias(es) | Amanda Peters (while married to Greg Peters) | ||||||||||
| Gender | Female | ||||||||||
| Residence | Unknown Formerly Salem, Illinois | ||||||||||
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Amanda Howard (formerly Peters) is a character from the soap opera Days of Our Lives, portrayed by
Storylines
Amanda Howard was a patient of Dr. Greg Peters. Amanda was guilt stricken and depressed over the fact she had had an affair with Dr. Neil Curtis, but never revealed his name to anyone. In 1975 Neil proposed to Amanda, who accepted. On the night they were to marry Amanda found Neil with a prostitute, and tried to commit suicide. The attempt failed, but it brought her closer to Greg.
In 1976 Amanda learned she had a brain tumor and would be dead in six months if she did not undergo surgery. Amanda was afraid to have the surgery because her mother had died while having the same operation. With Neil and Greg's encouragement she had the surgery and survived, though she lost her memory for a short time. Eventually she married Greg in 1976 after he divorced Susan Hunter.
In 1979 Amanda and her husband Greg left Salem after Greg got a better paying job in Chicago. Eventually Greg and Amanda split up and she returned to Salem and moved in with Chris Kositchek, however she soon moved out after Mary Anderson wanted to win back Chris.
When Amanda learned she was pregnant, Chris proposed to her. Amanda went to Chicago to divorce Greg, who refused thinking the baby was his. However Amanda learned her pregnancy was a tubal one, and she lost the baby and was forced to undergo a hysterectomy. Greg quickly divorced Amanda, and a depressed Amanda broke off her relationship with Chris and left town.