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Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan is a fictional character and the primary antagonist on the American TV series ''Dynasty''. The role was originated by Joan Collins in the first episode of the show's second season in 1981 (the character appeared briefly in the first season finale, non-speaking and face unseen).〔Maggie Wickman appeared at the end of "The Testimony" as the veiled surprise witness who would later be identified as Alexis.〕 Collins remained on the show until the finale in 1989, and then returned as Alexis for the 1991 miniseries ''Dynasty: The Reunion''. Alexis' schemes to destroy ex-husband Blake, undermine his marriage to angelic Krystle, and control her children drive much of the action over the series' run. Passionate yet vengeful, Alexis loves her children fiercely and will do anything to protect them, but she often ignores their own needs and desires in place of what she thinks is best. Often seen smoking her trademark Nat Sherman cigarillos, Alexis rises and falls again and again, continually stirring up trouble for all around her. During the series Alexis is married three additional times, to Cecil Colby, Dex Dexter, and Sean Rowan. Alexis is widowed twice, first by Cecil and then by fourth husband Sean, prompting Alexis' cousin Sable to remark that with Alexis "death is always a simpler solution than divorce." Her third marriage (to Dex) ends in divorce after Alexis catches him in bed with her adult daughter Amanda. The name Alexis uses the most consistently over the course of the series is Alexis Colby, though her marriage to Cecil Colby is her shortest. Alexis is romantically linked to a number of men over the years, including oilman Rashid Ahmed, tennis pro (and Krystle's first husband) Mark Jennings, King Galen of Moldavia, shipping tycoon Zach Powers, Congressman Neal McVane, Blake's brother Ben Carrington, Dirk and Gavin Maurier, Cecil's brother Jason Colby, and even a near-reconciliation with an amnesiac Blake. ''TV Guide'' named her #7 in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.〔Bretts, Bruce; Roush, Matt; (March 25, 2013). "Baddies to the Bone: The 60 nastiest villains of all time". ''TV Guide''. pp. 14 - 15.〕 In 2015, executive producer Lee Daniels noted that Taraji P. Henson's character Cookie Lyon in his TV series ''Empire'' was partially based on Alexis. ==Behind the scenes== Candidates for the plum role of Blake Carrington's ex-wife, initially named Madeleine, included film legend Sophia Loren.〔 Series co-creator Esther Shapiro later claimed that the character of Alexis was based on the Roman empress Livia, as characterized in the 1934 novel ''I, Claudius''. A change in the writing and the addition of Alexis were credited with lifting ''Dynasty'' in the ratings, and the character "quickly set off a host of female imitators in other prime-time soaps."〔 Producer E. Duke Vincent said of Collins in 2005, "Joan Collins is the queen of the archetype … How do you get that? You get it in the storytelling, obviously, but the actress herself, her personality, brought something to that role which I don't think anybody else could have done." Executive Producer Aaron Spelling added, "We didn't write Joan Collins. She played Joan Collins … We wrote a character, but the character could have been played by 50 people and 49 of them would have failed. She made it work."〔 Alexis' annual catfights with Linda Evans' Krystle became eagerly anticipated,〔 and Alexis would later have similar brawls with Dominique Deveraux (Diahann Carroll) and Sable Colby (Stephanie Beacham). Alexis was conspicuously absent from the Season Six opener which followed the infamous Moldavian Massacre cliffhanger; Collins was in a tense contract renegotiation with the show, seeking an increased salary. As a result, the first episode of the season had to be rewritten to explain her absence. Collins' demands were met (she reportedly signed a $60,000 per episode contract) and she returned to the series in the season's second episode. As ''Dynasty'' declined in ratings in later seasons, Collins was contracted for only 13 of the 22 episodes in the series' ninth season as a money-saving move—by this time, Collins was reportedly earning $120,000 an episode. She later announced that she would not return for a tenth season, but the series was cancelled at the end of the ninth season due to low ratings. The majority of the cast (including Collins) reunited for the two-part, four-hour miniseries ''Dynasty: The Reunion'' in 1991. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexis Colby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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