Holden Snyder
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| Holden Snyder | |||
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| Portrayed by | Jon Hensley | ||
| First appearance | 1985 | ||
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Holden Snyder is a fictional character on the American soap opera As The World Turns. He is currently being played by actor Jon Hensley, who has played him from October 1985 to January 1989, 10/1989-07/1995 & 01/1997-present.
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[edit] Character history
Lily Walsh first met Holden Snyder in the stables of her mother's house. Holden was the new stable boy and there was an instant attraction between them. When Lily felt neglected by her mother, she found comfort in Holden and his family. Lily found herself very comfortable with the Snyder family, whose down-home values were a welcome change to Lucinda's controlling nature. In addition to forming a very close friendship with Emma, Lily also became close with Holden's older sister, Iva, who seemed to be very protective of Lily. The reason for Iva's attitude toward Lily became apparent when Lily started befriending the older Rod Landry. Lily and Rod's relationship made Iva very uncomfortable and when she saw the pair innocently horsing around in the pond, a panicked Iva warned him to stay away from Lily because she was his daughter! It was then that Iva was forced to admit her deep dark secret--at the age of 13, she was brutally raped by her cousin Josh Snyder and ran off. She became pregnant and gave birth to a little girl who she gave up for adoption--that girl was Lily. Shocked beyond belief, Lily told Iva she hated her and then ran away. Not knowing what to do once she got out of Oakdale, she called her newfound sister, Sierra, but when Lucinda got on the phone to talk, Lily told her she wasn't her mother and hung up.
Meanwhile, Holden and Dusty Donovan both went off to look for her with Dusty finding her first. After he called John to tell him that Lily was fine, he and Lily made plans to run off together but were found by Holden. When Lily learned that Dusty sold her out to John, she shunned him and sought comfort with Holden and returned home. Though there were concerns that Lily and Holden were related, Emma put everyone's mind at ease by relating that both Iva and Josh were adopted into the family, thus Holden and Lily aren't biologically related. Free to be together, the pair made plans to marry, however Lucinda disapproved of Holden more than Dusty and decided to put a stop to the relationship by telling Lily that Holden knew the truth of her parentage all along. Angry and hurt, Lily broke off with Holden and turned to Dusty, with whom she lost her virginity. Soon after, Dusty convinced her to return to Oakdale and then left for college himself.
Without Lily, Holden was lonely and he fell into the open arms of Emily Stewart. Holden impulsively married Emily, but quickly realized he made a mistake when he found out Emily was pregnant. Though he had decided to give his marriage another try after she miscarried, he quickly dumped her once he found out the baby wasn't his. After his divorce from Emily, Holden tried getting back together with Lily, but a series of events led him to believe that she was in love with his brother, Caleb. Holden and Caleb had always had a rivalry going on, and Holden was disgusted to learn how Caleb had callously dumped a pregnant Angel Lange, who ended up getting a bad abortion. Disgusted by Caleb's treatment of Angel (who Caleb had tried to hide from the family), Holden befriended her. However, Angel misread Holden's intentions and instigated a kiss, which was seen by Lily. Thinking she lost Holden, she became closer to Caleb, who Holden believed was using Lily for her money. Fed up with the situation, Holden quickly left town to sort out his life.
When he returned a few years later, he was married to Angel. Despite Angel's attempt to cement their marriage by adopting a child, Noelle (who was subsequently given back to her biological parents), Holden found himself pining for Lily. By now he finally realized that he belonged with Lily and tried to get Angel to divorce him. Angel finally did give him a divorce and he did marry Lily, but not before he made love to Julie Wendall in a drunken stupor. Months later, Holden found out that his liaison with Julie produced a son who she gave to Iva. Hurt and angry, Holden went to New York to confront her. After talking to Julie, Holden was mugged and lost his memory. When he finally resurfaced in Oakdale, he had no memory of his past with Lily and divorced her.
Holden eventually started experiencing memory flashes and tried to restart his friendship with Lily, since most of his memories seemed to be of her. Unfortunately, by then she was married to Damian Grimaldi. Lily was committed to her marriage and tried to discourage Holden. Meanwhile, Holden learned again that Aaron was his son and decided to sue Iva for custody. though Iva tried to convince him that she was giving the boy a good home, the amnesiac Holden had no loyalty to his sister and ended up winning custody of his son. Meanwhile,in 1994, Lily was becoming disgusted with Damian's intense jealousy of Holden and finally having enough, she ran to Holden and the pair made love. Soon after the Snyder family reunited to attend Caleb's second wedding to Julie Wendall. During the wedding festivities, Caleb, Seth, Iva and Emma all tried to get Holden to stay away from Lily.
After the wedding ceremony, Lily found out she was pregnant, and suspected that this child was actually Holden's! Lily decided to give her marriage to Damian another chance, despite her worry about his violent outbursts. After delivering Lily's baby at the Snyder farm, Holden caused some tension in the Grimaldi marriage by demanding that a paternity test be done. Later, in early 1995, Lily and Holden took separate sides in the case of Lisa suing John Dixon over malpractice in the death of Eduardo Grimaldi. Holden rightly suspected Damian's mother, Orlena, as the true culprit (Holden found some discrepancy early on about the whereabouts of Orlena the night of Eduardo's death and also was the one who found the IV that Orlena had fussed with, but Lily was convinced by Lisa and her own past with John that John was guilty of malpractice in Eduardo's death. Months later, Holden arrived at the Snyder farm to find Lily alone and in labor and delivered her son, Luciano (Luke). When it was learned that Damian was in fact Luke's father, Holden and Aaron moved to Maryland when Holden decided to go on with his life by entering a special memory recovery program.
In 1996, Holden returned to Oakdale and after a blow to the head, regained his entire memory. By now Damian was dead, so Holden and Lily were free to get married. Making matters complicated was Holden's old lover, Molly Conlan, who Lily met when she was in prison. Having had a child with Holden when they were teens, Molly confessed the truth to Holden, stating that she gave the girl up for adoption. In the course of finding their daughter, Abigail Williams, Molly attempted to destroy Holden and Lily's relationship so she and Holden could reunite. However, her plans failed and all she succeeded in doing was alienating herself from Holden and Lily. Meanwhile, Lily learned that Damian did not die, she chose to remain with Holden, her true love and they married.
Soon after getting married, Lily got pregnant. What should have been a happy occasion was marred by the appearance of David Stenbeck in their lives. David kidnapped Lily and planned on raising her newborn daughter as his own. With the police closing in, David escaped with the baby only to be found (without the baby) by Holden Snyder. After a struggle, David was shot and Holden, thinking he was dead, quickly buried him and withheld all knowledge of what happened for fear of what David's father would do. The only person who had any knowledge of what happened was Julia Lindsay, the fiancée of Holden's cousin, Detective Jack Snyder. The ordeal over, Holden and Lily named their baby Hope. However, unbeknownst to anyone, David switched Lily's baby with someone else's. After almost a year, Holden and Lily found their real baby, who was being raised by a very-much alive David! After the truth was discovered, the Snyders then renamed the girl Faith and gave Hope back to her birth mother.
To keep his mind occupied after giving Hope away, Holden accepted a job as manager of WOAK. Unfortunately, the job kept Holden away for great periods of time and he and Lily started to drifting apart, Though still committed to his marriage, Holden was unnerved by Lily's secretive nature about her relationship with Simon Frasier. Despite his doubts however, his love for Lily never wavered. That is until Lily returned from Atlantic City a changed woman. This Lily was cold and refused to sleep with Holden, which he took as a sign that she wanted a divorce. Angry and hurt, Holden was unnerved when mere weeks later, Lily begged him for a reconciliation. Put off by the sudden turnaround, Holden kept his distance but eventually gave in and made love to his wife, only to learn later that it wasn't! It seemed that the woman who came back from Atlantic City was NOT Lily, but her look-a-like, Rose D'Angelo. Holden then went on a quest to find his missing wife, only to find her in the arms of Simon Frasier. Disgusted at the state of his marriage, Holden moved out of the mansion. Holden quickly realized, though, that Lily was the love of his life the pair reconciled. As for Rose, she turned out to be Lily's twin sister.
Tragedy would strike again when Damian returned asking that Luke go to Malta with him. Suspicious, Holden and Lily refused only to learn that Damian planned to kidnapped Luke. Trying to stop it from happening, Holden went to the docks to stop the kidnapping, only to be caught in an explosion. Presumed dead for weeks, Holden and Luke were actually imprisoned in Malta by Damian's greedy half-brother, Dante. Luckily, Holden was found and rescued by Lily, Simon and Damian only to have Damian run away with Luke! In the end, Damian returned Luke to his family and once Luke was out of danger (after the death of Dante), Holden made arrangements to adopt him. Months later at Christmas, Lily and Holden celebrated the birth of their daughter, Natalie.
After a few years of quiet family life, The Snyders would be thrown into turmoil due to the return of Dusty Donovan. Though Rose instantly distrusted Dusty, Lily tried to convince her that he was a great guy. However soon the sisters would end up switching sides. When Lily learned that a down on his luck Dusty accepted money from Barbara Ryan in exchange for breaking up Rose's engagement to Paul Ryan, she felt betrayed. Learning of Dusty's involvement with criminal associates in Chicago convinced Lily that her old friend had changed for the worse and she warned Rose to write him off.
However by this time, Rose had grown attached to Dusty and was certain that deep down he was a good person. The sisters found themselves in danger when Lily, mistaken for Rose, was kidnapped by Spangler (the man Dusty owed money to) and trapped in a well. Soon after, Rose was taken and trapped also. Luckily, Holden and Dusty found Lily, but Rose, who'd managed to escape, was nowhere to be found. Luckily, Rose was rescued that day unharmed. Reunited with her family, Lily implored Rose to cut her ties to Dusty. Though Lily was adamant, Holden suggested that it might not be wise to ask Rose to choose between her family and Dusty. Although Rose soon chose Paul over Dusty, the triangle ended in tragedy when after getting humiliated at the altar, Rose was poisoned and died.
Totally destroyed by Rose's death, Lily shut herself off from her family and secluded herself in Rose's health. Not knowing how she could live without Rose, Lily started to lose herself and talk and dress like Rose, to the horror of all around her. Not able to handle her grief, and unwilling to confide in anyone, Lily ran off to Atlantic City, impersonating Rose! Although Holden was able to find her, it was obvious that Lily wasn't doing well and after Dusty blasted her for trivializing Rose's memory by acting like her, a distraught Lily ran off and attempted suicide by jumping into the freezing Snyder pond. Luckily, Dusty rescued her and Lily tried to go on with her life. However, she was unclear on how to do that and joined Dusty in his quest to ensure that Paul was arrested for Rose's murder.
Although Holden tried to convince her to let the police handle things, Lily was determined to follow Dusty's lead and make demands on the police. Even after Barbara Ryan confessed to the crime, Dusty was unconvinced and kept digging into the matter until he found evidence that fingered Paul as the murderer -- computer files from Paul's computer that showed him visiting websites devoted to selling the drug, Methanol. Thinking that it was beyond a doubt that Paul was guilty, Lily was shocked to learn that the killer was actually Paul's thirteen-year old brother, Will, who'd only wanted to make Rose sick, not kill her. Having found no peace in the arrest of a young boy, Lily continued to wallow in her grief and continually shut out Holden and the kids, choosing to spend most of her time at Rose's.
Not knowing how to comfort Lily, but realizing that she needed to talk to someone, Holden reluctantly enlisted Dusty to help draw Lily out. Although she remained distant at first, in time, Lily accepted Rose's death and she and Holden bridged the gap between them. Meanwhile. Dusty's past would come back to haunt him when mobsters suddenly came around demanding money that he owed. Seeing no way out, Dusty laundered money out of the Foundation. Although he tried to keep his activities a secret, Molly discovered what was happening and told Holden and Lily.
Unfortunately, Dusty's dalliance with the mob would end up hurting Molly, when she was later approached by the Feds about what she knew. Although she said nothing, the mob boss, Starziak, was certain she'd talked to the agents and had her kidnapped. Luckily, Holden figured out what happened, and alerted Jack. Although Holden and Jack succeeded in rescuing Molly, Jack would later be declared dead when his car went into the river while transporting Starziak. Saddened at losing his best friend, Holden couldn't get comfort from Lily since she was preoccupied helping her former brother-in-law, Craig Montgomery, despite the entire family's assertion that he was unworthy. But the one person who did understand was Molly, who felt tremendous amount of guilt about what happened to Jack. (since her hysterical nature caused Jack to transport Starziak without backup)
While trying to reassure Molly that she wasn't at fault, the pair got close and kissed. Although they both pulled away, the kiss only made Molly feel more guilty and more determined to leave Oakdale. When Holden quickly confessed the kiss to Lily, it only increased the tension in the Snyder family. Wanting to focus on their marriage, Holden told Lily to get Craig out of the guest house and sever ties with him. Although she reluctantly complied, it became obvious that Lily was going to continue to befriend Craig and let herself be insinuated into his problems. After a year of Lily focusing on herself and other people instead of their marriage, Holden had enough and found himself drawn to a woman named Julia Larrabee. When Aaron was in critical condition following a boxing accident, it was Julia who helped Holden through it and not Lily. Soon the gulf between Holden and Lily widened and he leaned on Julia for support and friendship. The final straw for the Snyder marriage was when Lily stood Holden up on New Year's Eve in order to help rescue a kidnapped Craig. Waiting alone, Holden encountered a lonely Julia and the two continued to bond.
Days later, Holden decided to leave Lily. Lily couldn't bear it though and connived with Carly to get Julia out of Oakdale. However, their machinations only served to drive Holden further away and eventually into Julia's arms. Although Lily tried to plead with him to work on their marriage, Holden felt that he'd tried enough and refused. At the same time, Lily's actions toward Julia caused Holden to take out a restraining order against Lily for Julia. That action would have serious consequences. When Luke found out what Holden had done, he went to Julia's apartment and in a fit of anger, trashed her apartment. When he confessed to Lily about what he'd done, Lily went to the apartment to cover Luke's tracks. Unfortunately, Julia caught her in the act and the two argued, cultimating into Lily shoving Julia. Unfortunately, Julia struck her head against the mantleplace. Lily then left, leaving an unconscious, but alive Julia. However, that night when Lily returned, Julia was dead! Scared, Lily called Carly and they cleaned up the apartment to erase any evidence of Lily being there.
However, the police suspected foul play. Holden's supcions fell on Luke since he'd been hostile against Julia for a while. Then it was learned that Luke burned evidence of Lily being at the scene. Soon after, Lily confessed about the argument and stated Julia was alive when she left. However, things got confusing when Lily suddenly confessed to intentionally murdering Julia. But when new evidence came along implicating Julia's ex-husband, Les, Lily finally admitted that she'd been lying to protect Luke.
While Les appeared to be the guilty party, Lucinda started suspecting that it was Julia's brother, Keith who was the murderer. Concerned since Lily was now becoming attached to Keith, Lucinda voiced her concerns to Holden who wanted to stay out of it. Despite himself, Holden started sharing Lucinda's concerns as well. However, he had trouble convincing Lily of that and she ultimately suggested that they should get divorced. In the end, Les turned out to be guilty after all and Holden was dismayed when Lily bonded even further with Keith. However, several weeks later, the relationship ended when Lily learned that Keith transported Lucinda, who was suffering from cancer, to Mexico for alternative treatment.
Distressed by her mother’s decision to end her chemotherapy, Lily was livid that Keith went against her wishes to help her mother. Things got worse soon after when it was learned that Luke secretly boarded Keith’s plane and was lost in Mexico! Keith, Lily, and Holden traveled to Mexico to find him. meanwhile, Lucinda finally told Lily Keith’s secret—he was illegally transporting human organs! While in Mexico searching for Luke, Lily and Holden wound up making love. Luckily, they were able to find Luke. After coming back home, Lily and Holden decided to work on their relationship just as Keith returned to town. Disgusted by what he did for a living, Lily ordered him out of her house and her life.
Later Lily and Holden received devastating news—his time in Mexico had damaged Luke’s kidney. He needed a transplant but no one was a match. That’s when Keith stepped in and offered o find a suitable kidney-for a price: Lily’s hand in marriage. Desperate, Lily agreed to the terms. Although she tried to keep the reason for her change of heart a secret, Holden figured out that the kidney came from Keith and that’s why Lily was marrying him. However, a few weeks later, Lily decided that she couldn’t do it and pleaded with Keith to release her from her promise. To her relief, he did and Lily and Holden renewed their wedding vows. Not long after, Lily learned she was pregnant.
Meanwhile, Luke began hanging out with his friend, Kevin. Kevin was a party animal who continually encourage Luke to get drunk with him. Despite the fact that a damaged liver could kill him, Luke did it anyway. On more than one occasion his family found out finally forcing Holden to forbid him from seeing Kevin. Holden couldn’t help but notice Luke’s closeness to Kevin and couldn’t help but wonder how close they really were. Convinced that Luke was hiding something, Holden continually tried to get him to open up but Luke kept pushing him away. His suspicions about Luke growing, Holden decided to peek into Luke’s lap top to uncover his secret but was caught read handed by an angry Luke.
In the meantime, a young woman named Jade Taylor had entered the Snyders' lives claiming to be the daughter Rose gave up for adoption. Although the Snyder's could verify that Rose did have a daughter, there was no proof that Jade was that daughter. Despite this, Lily decided to take the girl at her word. Holden voiced his suspicion to Jack: he thought Luke was gay. While talking to Jack, Holden realized that what was important was Luke being happy; being gay wouldn’t factor into that. However, Holden still couldn’t bring himself to ask Luke the question. He did ask Jade to report to him about Luke and she surprised him by telling him that he was wrong about Luke. Later, Jade was caught in a few lies, arousing Lily’s suspicions. Lily did some investigating and discovered that Jade was not Rose’s daughter—she’d been conning them. Lily was all set to throw Jade out when she and Holden found her in bed with Luke! Luke then shocked his parents by saying that he was in love with Jade.
Despite the fact that Jade had betrayed her, Lily let her stay out of fear that Luke would run away with Jade. Holden’s suspicions came back when Jade cryptically told Holden that someone’s best not knowing. The suspicions grew even stronger when he saw Luke shove Jade away, but Luke stated it was because they were not allowed to be making out in the house. As the weeks went by, Jade's presence put a certain amount of strain on Lily. Luke finally decided that his secrecy wasn’t worth it and confessed to his parents that he was gay. Ironically, it was Lily, not Holden, who had the most trouble accepting this fact.
Not long after, Damian arrives in town. Tensions flare between Holden and Damian. Holden was convinced that Damian was in town to manipulate Luke. Damian brings a psychologist that might be able to help Luke. Lily questions if he's a deprogrammer but both Damian and Dr. Ross Kreeger assure her that isn't the case. Luke meets Ross who tells him about the summer program. Lily researches Kreeger on the Internet and find out who he really is. Lily rushes home to explain to Luke that she didn't know about Kreeger. In an argument that follow, Luke accidentally shoved Lily down the stairs, landing her in a coma. Holden demanded answers and Luke informed him that Lily had plans to send him to a camp that “reprograms” gay boys to be straight. However, Holden refused to believe that Lily would do that. He didn’t put it past Damian, though, but there was no connection between Damian and Dr. Kreeger.
As Holden kept watch over his comatose wife, the gulf between him and Luke widened with Luke (who believed that Holden blamed him for Lily’s accident) moving into Fairwinds with Damian. Holden’s initial anger toward Luke softened but he barely saw his son and Luke wouldn’t return his phone calls. As Lily’s baby moved into the breech position, Holden was told that unless the baby was delivered now, it could die. On the flip side, there was a chance hat Lily could die from the caesarian. Realizing that Lily would never forgive him if he chose her life over their child’s, he told the doctors to go ahead with the caesarian. Luckily, both Lily and their new baby boy came through just fine.
Holden welcomed his new son into the world, things looked up when Luke agreed to come back home. Unfortunately, not long after Luke changed his mind and informed Holden that he had to stay with Damian since Damian was dying. However, Holden didn't buy that for a second and asked Lucy, now a doctor, to investigate. Luke was making plans to go with Damian to Malta. When Damian seemed in a hurry to leave, Holden and Jack rushed to the airport to meet them and confronted Damian. Suddenly, Damian’s colleague, Sergio, got desperate and held Luke hostage. Luckily, Damian diffused the situation and was forced to confess that he needed Luke in Malta to because he needed his inheritance. During the course of Damian’s revelation, Luke figured out it was Damian, not Lily, who wanted to send to a reprogramming camp. Angry that Damian had been playing him for weeks, Luke bitterly disowned his father and although he was within rights to pursue kidnapping charges, he declined in order to spare his family—the Snyders.
Holden is currently living out at the farm with son Luciano "Luke" Snyder, after Holden moved out. Lily is living at the house with other children Faith, Natalie and Ethan Snyder.
[edit] Family and relationships
[edit] Parents
- Harvey Snyder (father, deceased)
- Emma Snyder (mother)
[edit] Sibling(s)
- Seth Snyder (brother)
- Iva Snyder Benedict (adopted sister)
- Caleb Snyder (brother)
- Elinor "Ellie" Snyder (sister)
- Meg Snyder Montgomery (sister)
[edit] Marital status
- Lily Walsh Snyder (married; second time) [2003+]
[edit] Past marriage(s)
- Emily Stewart (divorced)
- Angel Lange (divorced)
- Lily Walsh Snyder (divorced; first time)
[edit] Children
- Abigail "Abby" Williams (daughter, with Molly Peterson) {given up for adoption}
- Unnamed child (sex unknown, with Lily Walsh Snyder, deceased) {miscarriage}
- Aaron Snyder (son, with Jilie Kinney Snyder)
- Luciano "Luke" Snyder (adopted son, with Lily Walsh Snyder)
- Faith Snyder (daughter, with Lily Walsh Snyder)
- Natalie Snyder (daughter, with Lily Walsh Snyder)
- Ethan Snyder (son, with Lily Walsh Snyder)
[edit] Other relatives
- Henry Snyder (paternal uncle, deceased)
- Bert Snyder (paternal uncle, deceased)
- Lily Walsh Snyder (adopted niece/paternal adopted first cousin once removed)
- Rose D'Angelo (adopted niece/paternal adopted first cousin once removed, deceased)
- Matthew John "MJ" Dixon (adopted nephew)
- Bradley "Brad" Snyder (paternal cousin)
- Jack Snyder (paternal cousin)
- Joshua "Josh" Snyder Stricklyn (paternal adopted cousin)
- Parker Snyder (paternal first cousin once removed, via adoption)
- Joseph James "JJ" Snyder (paternal first cousin once removed, via adoption)
- Sage Snyder (paternal first cousin once removed)
- Luciano "Luke" Snyder (adopted great-nephew/paternal adopted second cousin)
- Faith Snyder (adopted great-niece/paternal adopted second cousin)
- Natalie Snyder (adopted great-niece/paternal adopted second cousin)
- Ethan Snyder (adopted great-nephew/paternal adopted second cousin)
- Jade Taylor (adopted great-niece/paternal adopted second cousin)
[edit] Flings and romantic relationships
- Molly Conlan (lover)
- Pam Wagner (dated)
- Julie Kinney Snyder (one-night stand)
- Marsha McKay (dated)
- Janice Maxwell (lover)
- Tracey Donnelly (dated)
- Rose D'Angelo (affair/lover deceased)
- Julia Morrissey Larrabee (affair/lover, deceased)
