Soap Hub Performace of the week goes to Amanda Setton

General Hospital actress is honored

Soap Hub just announced that their Performance of the Week Award goes to Amanda Setton who portrays Brooke Lynn Quartermaine on ABCs General Hospital. The character known as BLQ returned to Port Charles as a spoiled rich brat but has changed right before our very eyes. She went from fighting, scheming and going to jail to saving a baby from a psycho dad. She changed from a selfish, vindictive, immature member of the Q family into someone the Quartermaines can be proud of.

The heartfelt scenes where Harrison Chase and Brooke Lynn found out Bailey/Louise (London Selzer) had been abducted were very powerful. Although this couple loved and cared for the baby as their own they freely gave her to her grandparents Mac Scorpio ( John J York) and Felicia Scorpio (Kristina Wagoner).

General Hospital: Heart tugging moments

Fans say they were in tears as BLQ gave Bailey/Louise to Felicia and cried again when Maxie's mom decided to leave her granddaughter with the parents who had been raising her. Brook Lynn handled the situaiton with such passion, grace and style that everyone was proud her her. She wasexpecting to be attacked for her choice to keep Maxie's daughter but instead even her family members are saying she did a stand up job.

Thank you Amanda Setton for bringing out the humanity in BLQ and showing us she is not simply a carbon copy of her scheming, sarcastic grandma Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliot). General Hospital viewers are hoping that once Maxie gets her daughter back and things begin to settle down that she and Brook Lynn will become true friends and that Chase and BLQ will be able to explore their feelings for one another.

Amanda Setton deserves this honor

Brook Lynn faked a pregnancy anf tricked Valentin into believing she was carrying his child and she pulled off this great deception in true Quartermaine style. She partnered with Maxine a woman she hated and initially only wanted to keep Valentin out of her family business. Along the way she made an enemy of Austin Gatlin Holt (Roger Howarth) and viewers were beginning to dislike BLQ.

As she began caring for Maxine's baby BLQ began to evolve. She became caring and nurturing to Bailey/Louise and her motives began to shift. Eventually all that mattered to her was protecting thsi child from Peter August (Wes Ramsey) and nothing else mattered. BLQ started out with her mind only on the ELQ shares and trying to one up Valentin.

She has now shown us that she has a heart of gold underneath the Quartermaine exterior. Setton has gone the range of emotions with her character and GH fans have been happy to go along for the ride. Kudos to Amanda Sutton for giving those who watch General Hospital a worthy performance during the past week.

The woman behind BLQ

Setton was born on December 16, 1985 and is a soap veteran. Prior to General Hospital She had a recurring role as Penelope Shafai on Gossip Girl on The CW from 2008–2012, and portrayed Kimberly Andrews on One Life to Live from 2009–2011. Amanda made her Off-Broadway debut in 2011 in the comedy play Love, Loss, and What I Wore and was on the first half of season one of the Fox comedy The Mindy Project.

She also appeared in Blue Bloods, Hawaii Five-O, Mercfy and The Crazy Ones.Setton's movie roles include Sex and the City, and What Happens in Vegas, and All the World's a Stage in 2008, and Pasolini's Last Words 2012, That Thing with the Cat, 2014, Black Dog, Red Dog 2015, and Birth of a Poet 2018. Setton is married with 3 children and her daughter London Selzer currently portrays Bailey Quartermaine/Louise Jones.

A nod for performer of the week is not a Daytime Emmy but is still shows that someone was paying attention and recognized that Selzer has been giving a worthy performance. Fans have been saying the same thing across social media platforms.