‘All My Children’ signs off

Contra Costa Times

WALNUT CREEK, Calif.

For almost 10 years, Alicia Minshew has been portraying the sometimes wicked, sometimes sweet and always feisty Kendall Hart Slater on “All My Children.”

It was not a role she created, joining the cast 61/2 years after actress Sarah Michelle Gellar left the character behind.

But in short order, Minshew put her mark on acid-tongued Kendall, the unwanted daughter of iconic Erica Kane, and became a central character on the daytime soap.

She was seldom without a front-burner story line, not even when she went on maternity leave and the character went into a coma, for the second time.

And now, its over.

“AMC’s” final broadcast episode airs today on ABC.

Minshew says being on “All My Children” has been an amazing experience both professionally and personally.

The friendships with the show led her to meet restaurateur Richie Herschenfeld, whom she married.