Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty;General Hospitalis shaking things up.Lostactress Cynthia Watros will be taking over the role of Nina Clay-Cassadine from starMichelle Staffordon the long-running ABC soap, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal.Cynthia Watros.Frederick M. Brown/GettyWatros, 50, who also starred onGuiding Light(she won a Daytime Emmy in 1998 for her role as Annie Dutton) andThe Young and the Restless(as Kelly Andrews), will begin filming in early June.General Hospitalfans have watched Stafford, 53, star on the series as Nina since 2014. She has appeared in 397 episodes thus far, according to her IMDb profile.Michelle Stafford.In addition toGeneral Hospital, Stafford is well-known to soap opera fans as Phyllis Summers onThe Young and the Restless, on which she starred from 1994-2015.General Hospitalairs weekdays on ABC (check local listings).

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General Hospitalis shaking things up.Lostactress Cynthia Watros will be taking over the role of Nina Clay-Cassadine from starMichelle Staffordon the long-running ABC soap, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal.Cynthia Watros.Frederick M. Brown/GettyWatros, 50, who also starred onGuiding Light(she won a Daytime Emmy in 1998 for her role as Annie Dutton) andThe Young and the Restless(as Kelly Andrews), will begin filming in early June.General Hospitalfans have watched Stafford, 53, star on the series as Nina since 2014. She has appeared in 397 episodes thus far, according to her IMDb profile.Michelle Stafford.In addition toGeneral Hospital, Stafford is well-known to soap opera fans as Phyllis Summers onThe Young and the Restless, on which she starred from 1994-2015.General Hospitalairs weekdays on ABC (check local listings).

General Hospitalis shaking things up.

Lostactress Cynthia Watros will be taking over the role of Nina Clay-Cassadine from starMichelle Staffordon the long-running ABC soap, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal.

Cynthia Watros.Frederick M. Brown/Getty

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Watros, 50, who also starred onGuiding Light(she won a Daytime Emmy in 1998 for her role as Annie Dutton) andThe Young and the Restless(as Kelly Andrews), will begin filming in early June.

General Hospitalfans have watched Stafford, 53, star on the series as Nina since 2014. She has appeared in 397 episodes thus far, according to her IMDb profile.

Michelle Stafford.

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In addition toGeneral Hospital, Stafford is well-known to soap opera fans as Phyllis Summers onThe Young and the Restless, on which she starred from 1994-2015.

General Hospitalairs weekdays on ABC (check local listings).

source: people.com