Although she’s appeared on several soap operas throughout her storied career, playing such memorable characters as Dixie Cooney on “All My Children,” Rosanna Cabot on “As The World Turns” and Jennifer Horton on “Days of our Lives,” as well as Kelly Andrews on “The Young and the Restless,” it’s her new role on “Beyond the Gates” that marks a major milestone for three-time Daytime Emmy Award winning actress Cady McClain.

Beginning with the Friday, February 28 episode of the daytime drama series, McClain will formally portray her first original character on a soap opera when she debuts in the recurring role of Pamela Curtis, an old friend of Dani Dupree (Karla Mosley) who makes her way back to Fairmont Crest to support Dani as her ex-husband, Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett), sets out to marry his former mistress and secretary, Hayley Lawson (Marquita Goings).

“I’m just so thrilled...