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This ‘General Hospital’ Vixen is About to Embark on a Hollywood ‘Scooby-Doo’ Mystery
Avery Kristen Pohl, ‘General Hospital’s’ ex-Esme, lands a role in Netflix ‘Scooby-Doo: Origins’ alongside Mckenna Grace after earning a Daytime Emmy nomination.
General Hospital’s Esme fell overboard into the River Seine in 2024, never to be seen again, but her portrayer, Avery Kristen Pohl, has certainly kept busy. She earned a Daytime Emmy nomination after leaving the soap for her previous work in Port Charles and now she has landed a role in a highly anticipated new Netflix series.
Avery Pohl Snags Role in the New Scooby-Doo
“Dog’s outta the bag. So grateful to work with so many talented and kind individuals,” Pohl posted on Instagram after the news broke that she’d been cast in Scooby Doo: Origins, a prequel to the original cartoon series that ran from 1969 to 1976. Through the years, there have been multiple Scooby-Doo iterations, but the Netflix take delves into how these crazy kids became mystery-solving friends, who always got help from a Great Dane named Scooby, per IMDb.
Pohl’s announcement post came with a multitude of congrats from her former GH co-stars, including Tabyana Ali (Trina Robinson), Katelyn MacMullen (Willow Cain), Sydney Mikayla (the former Trina Robinson), Sofia Mattsson (ex-Sasha Corbin), Kristen Vaganos (Molly Lansing-Davis), Jacqueline Grace Lopez (ex-Blaze), and Braedyn Bruner (Emma Scorpio). The series, which is currently in production in Atlanta, also stars Rusty Schwimmer, Mckenna Grace, Tanner Hagen, and Maxwell Jenkins, according to Deadline.
While there is no word on who Pohl will play in the new Netflix series, GH fans still remember her turn as the daughter of serial killers, Ryan Chamberlain (Jon Lindstrom) and Heather Webber (Alley Mills). Esme’s jealousy of Trina played out through much of her Port Charles run, resulting in Esme making a revenge sex tape of Josslyn (Eden McCoy) and Cameron (William Lipton) and setting up Trina to take the fall. Esme also spent a year as a younger mother with amnesia, but when her memory returned, that is where her troubles began.
Once Esme remembered how much she hated Trina, she followed Spencer (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Trina to Paris and confronted them on a riverboat. Both Spencer and Esme fell overboard and were presumed dead. However, Pohl made a final appearance as Esme’s ghost haunted Laura (Genie Francis) late last year.
