“General Hospital” fans can’t get enough of Jane Elliot as Tracy Quartermaine.
In contrast, Elliot said, “I was hand-to-mouthing it, paycheck to paycheck, job to job.
… And she had this stable life.”
He later on got her a different audition for “General Hospital” for the character Gina Dante.
Elliot did the audition without knowing the material.
And they wrote Tracy Quartermaine based on that audition," Elliot told the outlet.
She also mentioned how she poured a lot of her real-life mother’s characteristics into the role of Tracy.
However, on the day of the audition, Elliot had been hard at work helping a friend move.
She couldn’t fully memorize the lines before auditioning, but that didn’t bother Elliot too much.
Burton and Anderson were impressed when Elliot told them the role of Tracy Quartermaine was written specifically for her.
“I call soap opera acting dive acting,” Elliot said.
“You just dive.
You just jump off the dive.
And it’s very freeing.”
Elliot’s contribution to “General Hospital” didn’t go unnoticed either.
Elliot became a nominee for that year’s awards show.
That’s my reward, my joy."
