Nicholas Alexander Chavez will not return to General Hospital
Nicolas Alexander Chavez’s leave of absence from General Hospital has gone from temporary to permanent.
Though there’s been no official confirmation from GH, multiple sources confirm exclusively to TVLine that the actor behind Spencer Cassadine the son of Nikolas Cassadine and the late Courtney Matthews — who starred in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series earlier this year had left the role of Cassadine to shoot season 2 of the anthology Monster and Won’t be returning to ABC soap after all.
There was once a plan that Chavez would return to GH after his role on Monster was completed. It appears to have been abandoned. In January, Spencer was presumed dead when he and his ex-girlfriend Esme (Avery Kristen Pohl) collapsed in Sienne, France. Spencer died while protecting Trina. Also read -Jennifer Aniston is making “9 to 5” reboot
Chavez’s indefinite departure was hinted at in late March when GH fans noticed that his name suddenly disappeared from the show’s closing credits.
Nicholas Alexander Chavez took over the role of Spencer Cassadine from Nicholas Bechtel in 2021 and won an Emmy for Outstanding Younger Performer in a Drama Series. He was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama Series in 2023.
Ryan Murphy’s Netflix anthology Monster Season 2
Dahmer – Following the massive success of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Netflix has ordered two additional instalments of the record-breaking anthology series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. Season two is titled Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story. Nicholas Alexander Chavez will play Lyle Menendez in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix anthology series Monster.
(Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is a series that exposes these senseless crimes, focusing on the disenfranchised victims and their communities impacted by the systemic racism and institutional failures of policing that led to America’s most notorious serial killer coming forward.)