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Sheryl Lynn Herring (born September 22, 1958) is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She is perhaps best known for her role asLucy Coe on the long-running soap operaGeneral Hospital which she has played on and off since 1986.

Herring was born inEnid, Oklahoma.^[1] Before acting, Herring wasMiss Virginia USA 1977, and was 4th runner-up toKimberly Tomes for the title ofMiss USA 1977.^[1] She earned aB.A. in psychology fromLouisiana State University,^[1] where she was also a member ofDelta Delta Delta sorority.^{[citation needed]}

Herring is best known for her work indaytime television, first portraying the role of mousylibrarian Lucy Coe onGeneral Hospital in 1986. Over time, Lucy became much more glamorous and man-hungry, and the role proved to be very lucrative for Herring.^[2] She left after six years to explore other opportunities, which led to a role onDays of Our Lives. Her character,Lisanne Gardner, was never fully developed, and Herring asked to be let out of her contract with the show.Days producers agreed, and she then returned toGeneral Hospital.

She played Lucy onGeneral Hospital until 1997, when she was asked to reprise her character on a spin-off series calledPort Charles. She appeared on the series until it was canceled in 2003, and subsequently made a brief return toGeneral Hospital in 2004.

She joined the cast ofAs the World Turns on July 24, 2009, as Audrey Coleman.

On November 2, 2012, after more than eight years off-screen, it was announced that Herring would return toGeneral Hospital as Lucy in December. She first aired on December 17.

Herring was married to actorWayne Northrop from May 1981 until his death in 2024.^[1][3][4] They had two sons: Hank Wayne, born on January 9, 1991, and Grady Lee, born on July 20, 1993, in Los Angeles.^[5] They owned and ran a working cattle ranch in theMadera County area ofRaymond.

In a February 2007 interview, Herring's former co-starKin Shriner said of Herring: "She's living a life that most women would love. She's going to restore an old train depot on land up where she lives and bring it back to a sort of museum quality. She's lobbying. She's back at school. She's working with animals. She's got her two boys. She's likeBarbara Stanwyck inThe Big Valley. She's running the whole town."^[6]

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