Ric Lansing (Rick Hearst)

Richard "Ric" Lansing is a fictional character on the ABC Soap Opera, General Hospital. The character has been played by soap opera veteran Rick Hearst, since 2002. On June 14 and June 15, 2007, the role of Ric Lansing was played by Nick Kiriazis. Rick was taken off contract in March 2009, but will be a ruccuring chracter until May 2009, in which he will be killed by Jerry Jacks.

He is the son of Trevor Lansing and Adela Corinthos. He is the half-brother of Sonny Corinthos.

Character Background
Before Ric was born, his father, Trevor, had an affair with Sonny's mother, Adela. Adela ended up getting pregnant, and Trevor sent her and Sonny to live in his vacation home located in Martha's Vineyard to prevent from his wife finding out about Adela. While pregnant, Adela accidentally fell down the stairs. Later, Trevor told Ric that Sonny had done it because of jealousy. After Ric was born, Trevor tried to make her put Sonny up for adoption, but instead she left with only Sonny. Because of this, Ric blames Sonny for not having his mother in his life.

Sonny Corinthos
Five months after he arrived in Port Charles, he revealed to Sonny that he was actually his half-brother. Years of a tumultuous relationship with his brother he no longer wants revenge on his brother. Through the years Ric has constantly wanted to drive a wedge through Sonny and Jason's brotherly relationship.

First Marriage
Ric and Elizabeth Webber started dating shortly after Ric arrived in town in 2003. After finding out that Ric was Sonny's brother and was trying to get revenge on him for taking away his mother, she broke up with him. Elizabeth discovered she was pregnant with Ric's baby, which led them to decide to get married in May 2003. The day after they were married she was pushed down the stairs by Ric's former lover, Faith Rosco, thus suffering a miscarriage. However, assuming wrongly that Sonny was the one who pushed Elizabeth down the stairs, he took his revenge out on Sonny's wife, Carly Corinthos, while Carly was pregnant with her son, Morgan. He kidnapped Carly and put her in a panic room. Elizabeth found Carly soon after, only to collapse and be hospitalized. Later Ric released Carly. Elizabeth defended Ric and denied his actions, but soon it became too much and she decided to divorce Ric after finding out about his deception. However he was not ready to give her up, and after helping her deal with temporary blindness they reunited. They remarried in December 2003, when Elizabeth became pregnant once again, only this time with Zander Smith's baby, after they had a one night stand. Ric found out about the paternity but still wanted to raise the child as his own and Elizabeth temporarily agreed. Later Elizabeth asked for a divorce from Ric again after overhearing a conversation with his brother (Largely due to actress Rebecca Herbst's necessity to go on maternity leave) once again because of his obsession with revenge against Sonny. Ric has said many times that Elizabeth was the first person he ever loved, and she and Cameron were the most important people in his life.

However, the next time Carly was kidnapped--this time by Lorenzo Alcazar--Ric decided to help Sonny and Jason find her. He even managed to get closer to Sonny and eventually became his lawyer. This was all in an effort to take over Sonny's business because of his revenge. One night, Ric met Jason and insulted Jason's girlfriend, Sam McCall. Upon hearing this, Jason almost beat him to death until Sonny stopped him. Ric was planning on pressing charges, but Jason left the country. He even took advantage of Sam and slept with her while she was drunk and upset about her breakup with Jason. Since then, Jason was charged with Alcazar's murder. Ric tried his hardest to get Jason stuck in jail for life--putting Sonny's business in danger. Luckily for Jason and Sonny, Carly and Jerry Jacks found evidence that freed Jason. He even tried to put Sonny's girlfriend, Kate Howard, in jail for six months for his revenge scheme, but Ric's father came to Port Charles and erased the charges.

For a while, Ric tried to win his ex-wife, Elizabeth Webber back. He framed her husband for drugs and also worked to get Jason and Lucky to cancel each other out during a mob war. In May 2007, Ric admitted to Elizabeth, who was in a coma, that she and Cameron were the only people he had ever loved and that no matter what he would always love her. Ric has always looked at Elizabeth as a way to have a better life and be a better person. Ric eventually stopped pursuing her, but he still won't give up hope that one day they can be a family with Cameron (her son with Zander) and Jacob (her son with Jason).

Alexis, Molly, and Kristina
In 2004, Ric pursued his half-brother's former lawyer and one-time lover, Alexis Davis when he discovered that she had kept her daughter's (Kristina Corinthos-Davis) paternity a secret from the child's father, Sonny Corinthos. While his relationship with Alexis was originally a ploy to 'one up' his half brother (the opportunity to gloat that he was raising Sonny's child), Ric's motives changed when he developed genuine feelings for Alexis and Kristina during Kristina's battle with childhood cancer. A frantic bone-marrow donor search forced the revelation of Kristina's paternity, but also brought about Ric's marriage to Alexis. Alexis became pregnant with Ric's child and Ric began to suspect that she loved Kristina (Sonny's child) more than his - a feeling brought to a head when Kristina was kidnapped. Eventually the family was reunited, but Ric began to develop a close attraction to Sonny's then-girlfriend, Reese Marshall, and eventually the two became intimate.

Ric separated from Alexis after discovering she had lied to him, and Ric and Reese remained close for months. During a catastrophic train wreck, Alexis, with Ric coincidentally at her side, gave birth to Ric's child, Molly Lansing. Reese died during the train wreck and Ric reunited with Alexis once more. Ric helped Alexis discover that Sam McCall was her long-lost daughter, and Sam moved in with the family. Eventually, Ric started to complain that Alexis wasn't spending enough time with him or his daughter. Ric and Sam began to talk and vent about Alexis and Jason, and one night they became intoxicated and had sex. Alexis, who had just learned that she had cancer, came home and unbeknownst to them, witnessed their tryst. In early 2007, Alexis and Ric divorced.

Zacchara Organization
Ric and Skye Quartermaine went to Nikolas Cassadine's Black and White Ball together. Disaster soon struck in the form of the madman Anthony Zacchara, who crashed the ball with no other motive than to wreak havoc. Ric became the first of many victims when he was impaled to a wall with a sword. Ric was in need of a blood transfusion, but no one had a matching blood type. Trevor feared for his son's life, and tracked down Sonny. After thinking a short while, Sonny agreed to give Ric blood. Ric survived after Robin Scorpio and Patrick Drake performed the surgery. Before Alexis was taken off the island due to her own medical issues, Ric and Alexis agreed to get past the events that took place in the past.

After being set up to fall in love with a woman who was sent by his father in order that Ric would have to sign over piers in Port Charles, Ric went to work for Anthony Zacchara, getting him released from a mental hospital. He has been in a match with his father since both trying to show Anthony who is a superior attorney. Ric having gotten Anthony's son Johnny acquitted of the murder of Scott Baldwin's son, Logan, fell in the good graces of both Anthony Zacchara and his daughter Claudia. Ric and Claudia Zacchara became intimate for the first time in early October 2008.

Though the sex was something Claudia promised him if he got Johnny cleared from all the charges, they continued to see each other, occasionally going out together. Ric finds himself slowly falling in love with Claudia and is the only one outside the family who knows what's really going on in her mind. When he finds out she was about to marry Jason Morgan to screw up a deal between Anthony and Sonny, he was less than pleased and wondered if Claudia didn't know how to let someone in.

Ric finds out that Sonny and Claudia wed, only as a business arangement so Sonny would gain the Zacchara Empire. Ric continued to have see with Claudia, until the hospital got on fire in which Claudia and Sonny. Ric alter finds a DVD holding evidence that Claudia was involved in Michael's shooting and even blackmailed just to keep the secret. Ric was unable to show Sonny the DVD because Jerry Jacks arrived in town and erased all the DVDs. Ric is now the potential father to Claudia Zacchara's child.