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Annie Douglas Richards

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herself trapped. She was always trying to get her father's money. She made it look like Olivia had been drinking by using potions of a Voodoo Priestess, Mrs. Moreau, who was often used by other characters; and that is how her baby died. Even though she was involved in her own storyline, Annie never missed a chance to fight with Meg. After her husband was presumed dead, Annie found love in
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While trying to escape from the police, Annie found herself trapped in a coffin that was sent to the crematorium. At the time, she was presumed dead, but a few days later she reappeared at Ben's place, where she had been hiding for some time. After her father's murderer was found, Annie didn't spare
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helped create Annie's appearance and style. Annie has been characterised as a reformed girl. The character has also been central to various fantasy sequences through her duration. These have been favoured by some of the soap opera's critics. Buxton has been nominated for one award for her portrayal
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In a few months, Annie plotted her way into marrying Gregory by comforting him over the 'death' of his son and convincing him that Olivia had been drunk during the birth. She then continued trying to fight everything that she had done. Her plots were usually discovered in a while and she found
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was unhappy with the style choices for Annie that the serial's production made. Spelling decided to choose Annie's style because he felt skirts, boots and low hanging necklaces fitted the character's image. He also wanted Annie to have red hair, but was unhappy with the selection of wigs made
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included Annie's various fights with Meg in their feature on the most memorable soap opera moments during 1997. Their writer Mark A. Perigard said the fights represented a growing trend of "female violence" during the previous year. On Annie's game show fantasy, Liz Smith of the
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Annie is characterised as a "top heavy scheming vixen" with light morals and portrays the image of a "poor little rich girl". Annie is known for her involvement in various fantasy sequences during her tenure. The serial hired
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for its slow-paced episodes, opining that Annie's arrest should have been over in a few minutes rather than taking up an entire episode. She added it made the episode halt to a "sleep-inducing state". The
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said that Meg faced "stiff competition" in the form of Annie, for Ben's affections. He also opined that she was "the very sort of liberated femme to spice her small talk with salty entendres".
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said Buxton and Anne Down showed signs of "becoming a classic matchup of battling soap opera vixens" in the respective roles of Annie and Olivia. Henry Mietkiewicz of the
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Annie was always a feisty woman. Most would say she was the best heroine on "Sunset Beach". From the first day, Annie was plotting her way to win the affections of
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said that Annie "crowed gracelessly" during her scenes and opined that Buxton had a tendency to "shrilly overplay" Annie. A writer for the
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Then all of a sudden, Annie was involved into a different storyline. After giving up on Ben for good, Annie learned that she had to marry
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debuting on air. Annie was billed as a "sexy and spoiled resident of a local beach house." The programme's creator
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were using Annie's fantasies of Jerry Springer solely in a bid to gain ratings. While Merle Brown of the
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For her portrayal of Annie, Buxton was nominated in the category of "Outstanding heroine" at the 1998
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time. She continued plotting against Meg, trying to get Ben to herself, and she teamed up with
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opined that Annie often "stirs up a lot of trouble" in the serial. Ken Tucker of
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said Annie was as every bit "hootable" as Olivia, but more "bratty and greedy".
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available. He managed to convince Buxton to dye her hair from black to red.
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and Annie has been branded one of the programme's most popular characters.
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to do a voice over during one of Annie's fantasies. While comedian
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sexpot Annie Douglas, could have such a dream!" Seli Groves of
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Sarah Buxton's casting was announced in October 1996, prior to
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were signed up to appear in Annie's game show fantasy.
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Fictional character from the TV series Sunset Beach
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Index

Annie Douglas

Sarah Buxton
Former; regular
Robert Guza, Jr.
Gary Tomlin
Aaron Spelling
E. Duke Vincent
Del Douglas
Gregory Richards
Bette Katzenkazrahi
Emily Davis
Sunset Beach
Sarah Buxton
Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling
Gary Owens
Howie Mandel
Jerry Springer
Ben Evans
Clive Robertson
Del Douglas
John Reilly
Bette Katzenkazrahi
Kathleen Noone
Meg Cummings
Susan Ward
Tim Truman
Dax Griffin
Eddie Connors

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