Occupation: Actress

Siblings: Lana Marlowe

Children: Troy Beauchamp, Jordan Rydell

Relationships: Jonas Lamont, Topper Beauchamp, Teddy Rydell

Appearances: Season 3 – 6

Who’d Play Her: Lauren Bacall

The Star Who Lost Herself to the Role: Lola Lamont was a celebrated actress from the golden era of Lamont 3 and the mother of studio executive Jordan Rydell. Once one of the glamorous women at the center of Jonas Lamont’s Hollywood empire, Lola built a career beneath the relentless pressures of celebrity, public expectation, and the studio system’s demand that its stars remain permanently flawless.

By 1967, the strain had become unbearable. Suffering from severe exhaustion, Lola temporarily withdrew from public life. To protect her career and preserve the illusion that nothing was wrong, her identical twin sister, Lana, secretly assumed her identity. What was intended as a temporary arrangement continued for four years, with Lana appearing in public, working before the cameras, and living the life that had belonged to Lola.

When Lola recovered and returned to reclaim her name, Lana refused to surrender it. After years of being treated as the star, she no longer considered herself merely a substitute. The sisters struggled at the top of a staircase, and Lana fell to her death. Jonas Lamont intervened to protect Lola, arranging for the death to appear accidental and burying the truth as another secret of the studio’s golden age.

Lola resumed her life, but the switch meant that photographs and memories from those years did not always depict the woman everyone believed they did. Even Jordan remained unaware that his aunt had impersonated his mother until decades later. The deception became one of the strangest and most carefully guarded secrets associated with Lamont 3.

Lola also witnessed Nathan Blackthorne assault Alex Reynolds. Her testimony could have helped establish the truth about Nathan’s behavior, but when Alex later visited her at the Actors Retirement Village, Lola stubbornly refused to become involved.

Years later, someone began attacking the surviving stars and associates of Lamont 3. After an attempt was made on Lola’s life, investigators discovered a photograph apparently showing her in 1968. Alex had previously found a picture of Lola and Lana together at Vaughan Novak’s home, prompting Jordan to confront his mother.

Lola finally confessed the story of the twin substitution and Lana’s death. Jordan realized that the photograph left by the attacker was not of Lola at all, but of Lana. The killer therefore knew a secret that only Jonas, Vaughan, and a small number of people from the old studio circle could have understood.

Lola survived the attack, unlike Elana Hendricks and Jack Childers, but the past she had spent decades avoiding was permanently exposed. The murderer was eventually revealed as Marilee Walker, whose campaign of revenge targeted the stars whose crimes and scandals Jonas and Vaughan had once concealed.

Lola’s life embodied the most unsettling aspects of Hollywood illusion. She had been replaced by another woman who wore her face, returned to find that her own identity no longer belonged entirely to her, and survived only because Jonas erased the consequences. She spent her later years withdrawn from the world, but even the Actors Retirement Village could not protect her from the secrets created when the performance of being Lola Lamont became more real than Lola herself.