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Margot Robbie and 10 superhero actors you didn’t know were soap stars

By Michael Patterson

MARGOT ROBBIE as Harley Quinn in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN),” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures/ & © DC Comic
MARGOT ROBBIE as Harley Quinn in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN),” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures/ & © DC Comic /
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NEW YORK – JUNE 27: “Superman Returns” star Brandon Routh unveils the new Superman wax figure at Madame Toussauds New York June 27, 2006 in New York City. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Getty Images) /

7. Brandon Routh

Brandon Routh is someone who we constantly associate with his refreshingly happy go-lucky performances as Clark Kent/Superman in the highly-underrated modern classic that is 2006’s Superman Returns and as Ray Palmer/The Atom in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (though he originally appeared on Arrow). He’s got an incredible talent for making these larger-than-life characters feel so relatable and that’s something he doesn’t get enough credit for.

However, a very long time before he was travelling through time, and even before he was soaring through the skies of Metropolis as the Man of Steel, he was playing, well, less hopeful characters.

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Following his brief appearance in an episode of Gilmore Girls back in 2001 (in which he and his friends attempted to get Rory’s friends to go out on a wild night with them), he began appearing regularly on ABC’s long-running daytime soap opera One Life To Live as the questionable Seth Anderson – who attempted to manipulate Jessica Buchanan at the behest of her secret sister, only to end up falling in love with her.

Though Routh left the soap after a year, the-powers-that-be recast the character (until they eventually wrote him out the following year due to his unpopularity). It wouldn’t be too long after that that he became the Man of Steel.

Hey, if we learned anything from that, it’s that even the world’s most famous superhero isn’t opposed to soap operas – a lesson we could all learn from.

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