John Black (Days of Our Lives)
John Black is a fictional character on Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera streaming on Peacock. He was played by Drake Hogestyn from January 1986 to January 2009, and since September 2011. John was created by scriptwriters Sheri Anderson, Thom Racina and Leah Laiman as the Pawn in 1985, and introduced by executive producers Betty Corday and Al Rabin. He became one of the series' most popular characters when he was revealed to be the presumed-dead Roman Brady (Wayne Northrop), after plastic surgery and amnesia. Northrop's 1991 return led to Hogestyn's portrayal of Roman being retconned into the separate character of John Black, which establishes the supercouple pairing of John and Marlena due to John's affair with Roman's wife Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall).
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Portrayed by | Drake Hogestyn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First appearance | November 18, 1985 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification | Present; regular | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Created by | Sheri Anderson, Thom Racina and Leah Laiman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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