Veteran actress Shari Belafonte is heading to Port Charles. Belafonte is taking over the role of Mayor Janice Lomax on General Hospital. 

Per Soap Opera Digest, Belafonte will first appear in mid-January. Belafone will have no problems getting acclimated to PC history. Her husband Sam Behrens, starred on the sudser as Bobbie Spencer's (Jackie Zeman) husband, attorney Jake Meyer from 1983-1987.

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