3 actors will leave the show this month - General Hospital Cast The air in Port Charles, we are told, is thick with emotional goodbyes, as three cornerstone actresses—Cynthia Watros (Nina), Maurice Benard (Sonny), and Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis)—are rumored to be departing General Hospital. This is not a creative restructuring; it is a profound and cynical act of narrative cowardice, a mass execution of legacy characters designed to manufacture "seismic shift" and capitalize on the grief of a loyal