Frankie Hubbard

Infobox soap character
name = Franklin Hubbard
nickname = Frank
Frankie
alias = Quentin



caption =
series = All My Children
Loving
The City
first= November 1983
(on All My Children)
last =
age = 25
occupation = Intern at Pine Valley Hospital
Former film student
Former medical student
Iraq War veteran
residence = Pine Valley, Pennsylvania
parents = Jesse Hubbard
(father)
Angela Baxter Hubbard
(mother)
siblings = Cassandra Foster (half-sister)
children = William
(son with Mia Saunders; given up for adoption)
cousins = Jacob Foster (paternal cousin/former stepfather)
Carl Blair Jr. (paternal first cousin once removed)
grandparents = Les Baxter (maternal grandfather, deceased)
Pat Baxter (maternal grandmother)
relatives= Eugene Hubbard (paternal uncle)
Frank Grant (paternal great-uncle, deceased)
Nancy Grant (paternal great-aunt)
romances= Briana Hawkins (lovers)
Mia Saunders (lovers)
Simone Torres (dated)
Colby Chandler (kissed)
Randi Morgan(Kissed/Flirtation)
Taylor Thompson (ex-lovers)
portrayer = Durrant Murphy, Jr.
(AMC, 1984)
Z. Wright
(AMC, 1986-1991)
Alimi Ballard
(Loving, 1993-1995; The City, 1995-1996)
Jason Olive
(AMC, 2002)
Cornelius Smith Jr.
(AMC, December 2007-present)

Dr. Franklin Quentin "Frankie" Hubbard is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, "All My Children". He is the son of soap opera supercouple Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter.

Frankie has also appeared on "Loving" and "The City". Along with his mother Angie Baxter Hubbard and former heiress Skye Chandler, he is one of only three individuals who have been regular characters on three ABC soap operas.

Beginnings

Frankie Hubbard is the product of a night of passionbetween young newlyweds Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter.Virginal Angie insisted that Jesse marry her beforethey could consummate their relationship. The twoeloped and their honeymoon resulted in Angie'spregnancy. Afraid to tell Jesse, Angie confides in hermother. Angie is sure Jesse's feelings toward her havechanged, so she decides to put the child up foradoption.

Jesse and Angie reconcile and once Jesse finds out hehas a son, they kidnap the child and flee. The saga has a happy ending once a judge restorescustody back to them. The couple remarry and name the boy after Jesse's recently deceased uncle Dr. Frank Grant.

After his mother's broken engagement to Cliff Warner,Frankie and his mother leave Pine Valley (Jesse, who joined the Pine Valley Police Department, seemingly died several years earlier in the line of duty).

Life on "Loving" and "The City"

Aged by several years, Frankie turns up in Corinth, Pennsylvania with Angie. He falls in love with Briana Hawkins, a young girl with a troubled alcoholicmother. A strange turn of events happen when Brianafinds out that Frankie's soon-to-be stepfather, CharlesHarrison, was Briana's long lost father. Briana endedthings with Frankie, and soon he and his mother moved toNew York City's SoHo district. Frankie decides to go to film school.He is almost killed in an explosion when a racisthate group target his family when his mother and newstepfather, Jacob Foster (a dead ringer for Jesse)take in a Caucasian foster child named Kayla. Eventually, Frankie transfers to a filmschool in California.

College Years

During The City, Frankie attended film-making college in New York City, where he dated Mia Saunders. He began to develop an anger control problem. Frankie had a temper that could rage out of control. When Mia discovered that she was pregannt she thought that Frankie did not want to start a family, so she left him. Mia had the child in secret and vowed never to let him find out, with the help of Trey Kenyon. Since losing Mia, Frankie managed to turn his life around.

Back to Pine Valley: 2002

Somewhere along the line Frankie abandons his plans tobecome a filmmaker and goes to medical school. Calling himself simply "Frank", hereturns to Pine Valley to fulfill his internship atPine Valley Hospital. Frank begins dating Simone Torres and finds old flame, Mia Saunders. Mia confidesin Frank that they have a son, William, who she gaveup for adoption. Frank is adamant about finding hisson, but Mia pleads with him not to disrupt the child'slife. Simone soon comes upon the shocking footage ofher brother Anthony overdosing on a city street. Frankconfesses he shot the footage and cared more about his"documentary" than helping Anthony. A devastatedSimone ends things with Frank. Frank drops off canvas soon after.

Surprise return: 2007/2008

In late 2007, "AMC" introduced the character "Quentin", who helped Aidan Devane in the search for the missing Greenlee Smythe and Zach Slater. In January 2008, it was revealed that "Quentin" is actually Frankie Hubbard. [Logan, Michael. "Soaps News: Back in the Valley", "TV Guide", Jan. 14-20, 2008, at p. 74.] His affliction with a rare illness serves as the catalyst for Angie's return to Pine Valley. It also leads to the re-emergence of Jesse, who -- despite evidence to the contrary -- is very much alive (He was abducted and his captors faked his death).

On January 30 2008, Angie told her medical colleagues that Frankie was in his "mid-20s", and on February 5 2008 Frankie stated that Jesse died when he was 5 years old (which would make Frankie 25 years old as of 2008). Apparently, the character has been "de-aged", reversing the rapid aging that took place when Frankie moved to "Loving". His given age now aligns properly with the fact that his character was introduced as a newborn in 1983.

Frankie signs up to finish his internship at Pine Valley Hospital. Angie later discovers, much to her dismay, that he only signed up to find out who kidnapped his father. Her fears prove to be well-founded when Frankie is kidnapped, along with Liza Colby's daughter Colby Chandler, by the apparent mastermind behind Jesse's abduction. Unbeknownest to the Hubbards, that person is Tad Martin's biological uncle Robert Gardner.

Recently, Frankie revealed to Jesse that he made an error in judgment during his tour of duty in Iraq, and that error allowed a 15 year old Iraqi to kill three of Frankie's fellow soldiers in a suicide attack.

Meeting Randi

Just weeks after his return to Pine Valley, Frankie meets Randi Morgan. She is one of his patients and it looks to Frankie that she's being abused. She insist that she is clumsy but Frankie knowing there is something she's hiding tells her to wait while he goes to check his beeper. When he gets backs she is gone. Frankie wanting to make sure she is ok, tracks her down at work. At first Randi is reluctant to talk to him, but he convinces her to go out for ice cream. Frankie tries to get her to open up about this abusive relationship, but she continuouslly says she isn't being abused. The next time the two meet, she is found unconsious at the hospital with a huge wound on her head. Frankie sets up an immediate brain surgery to stop the bleeding on her brain. Just hours after her surgery Randi is found collapsed in a corner. Frankie returns her to her room, telling her she needs to be careful. As usual, she won't listen. But she sticks around long enough to recover.

Randi is later brought into the police station, by Frankie's chief police father, Jesse Hubbard. Jesse releases Randi to Frankie. Frankie tries to get her to talk but she won't listen, so he attempts to speak her language, he pays Randi, as he would any other prostitute for her time. Instead of trying to sleep with her, Frankie tries to get her to open up about her life. She tells him that he can't save her and gets him to leave. Frankie leaves her some job information and a place to stay. Frankie tracks down Fletcher, Randi's pimp and beats him down. He warns Fletcher to stay away from Randi.

Frankie and Randi eventually admit their feelings for each other, but Fletcher is still after her. Frankie is grabbed by two of Fletcher's goons and is told that he must by Randi's freedom. Fletcher gives him a week to come up with the money and Frankie agrees, but no before he tries to convince Randi to leave town. Randi takes it the wrong way and thinks that Frankie is trying to get rid of her. He assures her that he does like her but just wants to help her. He realizes that he must by her freedom and contacts Fletcher.

Lt. Taylor Thompson

Frankie's ex-lover and fellow soldier in the Iraq war comes to town. Taylor Thompson (AMC) is one of Frankie's close friends from Iraq. When Randi sees them hugging, she gets the wrong idea. But Frankie is able to clear up their relationship very quickly.

See also

*Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter

References

External links

* [http://www.soapcentral.com/amc/whoswho/frankie.php Frank Hubbard Profile]