Buzz Cooper
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Frank Achilles ("Buzz") Cooper Sr. is a fictional character on the popular CBS daytime soap opera, Guiding Light. The character is a former Vietnam war veteran who deserted his wife and children by volunteering for a second tour of duty after serving his first straight out of high school. The young Cooper children were told by their mother that Buzz had died in action and when he was revealed to be alive decades later, Harley and Frank turned their backs on him. In time, however, Buzz made amends with them. During his time away from Springfield, he also married a woman named Sylvie and had a daughter, Lucy. Sylvie would abandon their family when Lucy was five and Buzz struggled for years on end to raise Lucy on his own. When Buzz took the money he had saved for Lucy's future to pay for Harley and A.C. Mallet's wedding as a gift, Lucy headed to Springfield to confront her father and met her entire family for the first time. She also eventually decided to stay for good.
The character of Buzz was originated by Justin Deas in February 1993 and he has been with the show since. Deas has been nominated four times over the years at the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Supporting Actor, most recently in 2005. He has won thrice in 1994, 1995 and 1997 respectively.
Family, Marriages, Romantic Entanglements and Children
Family
- Dante Kouperakis (father; deceased)
- Stavros Kouperakis (uncle)
Marriages
Marital status: Widower
- Nadine Corley (divorced; deceased)
- Sylvie Cooper (divorced)
- Reva Shayne Lewis (divorced)
- Jenna Bradshaw Cooper (dissolved by her death; deceased)
Significant Relationships
Current status: Single
- Randi Hemby (ex-lovers)
- Selena Davis (engaged; broken off)
- Alexandra Spaulding (dated)
- Olivia Spencer (one night stand)
Children
- Frank Achilles Cooper Jr. (son; with late ex-wife, Nadine)
- Harley Davidson Cooper Aitoro (daughter; with Nadine)
- Lucille "Lucy" Cooper (daughter; with ex-wife, Sylvie)
- Henry Cooper "Coop" Bradshaw (son; with late wife, Jenna)
- Ian Stavros "Rocky" Cooper (adopted son; biological son of Jenna and ex-husband, the late Jeffrey Morgan)
- Augustus "Gus" Aitoro (son-in-law; married to Harley)
Grandchildren
- Marina Nadine Cooper (granddaughter; daughter of Frank and ex-wife, Eleni Andros)
- Susan LeMay (granddaughter; daughter of Harley and Dylan Lewis; gave up for adoption - adopted by the late Jim and Connie LeMay)
- Alan Cooper "Zach" Spaulding (grandson; son of Harley and ex-husband, Phillip Spaulding)
- Jude Cooper Bauer (grandson; son of Harley and Rick Bauer)
Trivia
- Buzz formerly owned his family's restaurant, Company. He sold it to former son-in-law, Phillip Spaulding, as a truce in a bid to end their respective families' feud in 2004. Upon the latter's death, his daughter, Lizzie, inherited the restaurant and she renamed it "Elizabeth and Company". Lizzie promptly booted out the Cooper family (who had previously been living above the establishment). Buzz and the rest of the Coopers lived at the Bauer residence until Lizzie, after becoming involved with Buzz's son, Henry Cooper Bradshaw (Coop), gave Company back to the Cooper's.
- Buzz was awarded a Silver Star for killing a deranged soldier turned sniper while in Vietnam. He felt that the award was just a cover-up ploy and visited the G.I.'s pregnant wife, Sylvie, in the Philippines to break the news. Sylvie miscarried. Buzz would commit bigamy when he married the latter, mostly out of guilt.
- Buzz blackmailed ex-wife, Nadine, when he returned to Springfield for the first time in years in 1993 when the latter threatened to announce his true identity. Buzz countered by threatening to spill all about her so-called pregnancy with Nadine's then-husband, Billy Lewis. Nadine was forced to help Buzz out and passed off her ex-husband as her long-lost cousin, Rex Mancini.
Necessary information
In Finland, Buzz Cooper was the name of Buz Sawyer, a comic adventure strip character created by Roy Crane. Known also as Jori Sawyer, for reasons unknown.
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