First appearance March 22, 1962 Residence Monticello Mother Rose Pollock Significant other Mike Karr | Last appearance December 28, 1984 Father Joe Pollock Portrayed by Ann Flood | |
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Occupation Reporter/Columnist for The Monticello News
Novelist (wrote the book The Sword of Love, which was published in 1983)
Newscaster at WMON-TV | ||
Nancy Karr (née Pollock) is a fictional character on the long-running daytime soap opera, The Edge of Night. For 22 years, the role was played by actress Ann Flood.
Nancy was the daughter of Joe and Rose Pollock, and was a newspaper reporter for the periodical in the fictional midwestern town of Monticello. She also had two siblings, Lee, who was married to Gerry McGrath; and Elaine, called Cookie.
She had met and fell in love with widower Mike Karr, a lawyer who had lost his first wife, Sara Lane, to a terrible accident. Nancy proved herself to be a wonderful stepmother to his daughter, Laurie Ann, and in 1963, married Mike.
The two were very much in love, and were married through the series end in 1984. During that time, she and Mike also adopted Timmy Faraday after the death of his father, and the arrest and imprisonment of his mother, Serena. She is also a grandmother to John Victor Dallas, the son of Laurie Ann and her husband.