Since it was offered, with the pledges of Santa Barbara , a small house in San Fernando Valley, that it occupies with her Barney dog, Nancy Grahn is happiest of the women. In did the tread, it buy a convertible BMW? to make its emplettes. "During years", explains Nancy Grahn with enthusiasm, "I convinced myself that only a stable relation with a man would decide to me to buy a house. I was disabled with the idea of having to occupy me d?une all alone house and to pay the monthly drafts of them. Since, I radically changed opinion. I appreciate what Santa Barbara gave me. I smell myself even better in my work, and the purchase of this house completely opened out me in my life of woman. I believe that I will still remain unmarried a long time."

During four years, Nancy Grahn shared the life of Sam Behrens, one of the protagonists of Central the Hôpital serial . But it takes care well, today, not to recommend this kind of relation. "the majority of my relations in love, it was with actors. All the failures. The actors are generally full with charm, tempting, but unable to remain in place. They are always persuaded that there is to better discover behind the corner and would feel frustrated to be private for it." What does not prevent Nancy Grahn from regularly leaving with a producer television... "a producer, but not an actor", corrects it without resentment. "J?ai have relationship with the" civil ones ", as one calls people who do not belong to the show business, but they were in general unable to live with a celebrity of the show business. I felt them frightened by the trade that I made. An uncomfortable impression!"

In nine months, Nancy Grahn had time to be done with the absence of Lane Davies, but she always regretted the departure of the actor who had become his friend and his confidant. Of an optimistic naturalness, Nancy wants to however see only the good side of the things and accomodated with enthusiasm new Mason. "Lane was more mysterious Mason, darker, more tragic. Terry is funnier, less secret, more accessible. They do not resemble each other. Moreover, Mason de Terry is more loving. A heat which my character missed. I like much to play with Terry, almost as much as with Lane, until it wearies of the role. After, very worsened. It made a wise decision while leaving. But the European televiewer still has a few beautiful years in front of him, because Lane is an actor except par and it knew to make of Mason a character pivot in Santa Barbara ."

When I say to him how much the European public is disturbed by the frequent changes of actors within the American serials, Nancy philosophically sweeps the objection of large an epic of the hand. "Any change is disconcerting and takes one period of adaptation. What does one make in the life if not to adapt permanently to new situations? Once the camped character and the new adopted actor, this small frustration, as myself I knew it with Lane, is forgotten.

Santa Barbara however offers a paradox which remains for Nancy Grahn, in spite of its great adaptability, a perpetual matter of astonishment: how to explain, indeed, that the serial gains many rewards, while occupying a relatively modest place in the statements of audience in the United States? "I see only two explanations", advances it hesitant. "Is the televiewers remain faithful to the old serials like Central Hôpital and Hatred and Passed and, by fidelity or habituation, do not wish to connect on a more recent serial like Santa Barbara . It is a form of conservatism. That is to say the surveys do not take account of whole sections of populations. I am sure, for example, that the many schoolboys who look at us are not included in the surveys." Nancy Grahn assumes the responsibility for its explanations. But the attempt to rehabilitate Santa Barbara with the eyes of the Americans is méritoire. She in any case translates the enthusiasm of Nancy for her work and the interest which she carries to her character.

When it does not work, Nancy Grahn can taste calms it its country house. The place which it appreciates over all, it is its room to be slept and mollesse of its bed surmounted by four amounts of wood. It can spend there the hours, a book of philosophy (its passion!) with the hand. The return to oneself is however not the fort of Nancy Grahn. Because, as soon as arises a good cause to defend, it is on the barricades. For the abortion, against the alcoholism and drug, for the environmental protection, more consideration with regard to the handicapped people engine. "My life would be useless without a cause to defend or a new combat to be delivered. The humans right are very with the honor today. Even in Russia and East Germany. It is only justice after one decade of blind materialism and a half-century of untrue ideologies. It is not a chance if the man who makes vibrate crowd today is not Ronald Reagan but Nelson Mandela."

In this perfectly balanced life, Nancy Grahn preserved a major good: its independence. With the reverse of many stars of will soap-operas, grayed by their sudden fortune and who show more cicadas that ants, Nancy-the-wise did not launch out in expenditure outrancières. Its house is modest and its car is its only luxury. Thus can it reserve the right to say constantly "not" to the serial, when it takes one day to him the desire to discover other professional horizons .