As a legacy character on General Hospital, Maxie Jones is such a fan favorite that whenever the character is off the show for any period of time, viewers notice and aren’t happy about it! The daughter of popular supercouple Frisco Jones and Felicia Jones, Maxie was played by a series of child actors until Robyn Richards was cast in 1993.
After her departure in 2004, Kirsten Storms was cast as Maxie, debuting in May 2005. However, during one of her medical leaves in 2011, Storms was temporarily recast with Jen Lilley for nearly a year. And then later, in 2016, Molly Burnett stepped into the role of Maxie for a month when Storms required more time off.
Although Storms had to take a couple of days off due to the flu in 2018, she later signed a new contract with GH so that Maxie’s story can continue. (Although there was another temporary recast in December 2023 when Nicole Paggi filled in for her!)
Born Mariah Maximilliana Jones, Maxie is named after her maternal great-grandparents, Maximilian and Mariah Ramirez. While just a few years old, Maxie suffered from Kawasaki disease and received a heart transplant from her cousin, B.J. Jones. As a teenager, Maxie’s first crush was on Lucky Spencer, but she lost her virginity to Kyle Ratcliffe, who recorded it and posted it on the internet!
Maxie’s relationship with undercover cop Jesse Beaudry ended when he was killed in the line of duty, and she went on a downward spiral of hard partying. She turned to Lucky for comfort, and they slept together, despite his being married to Liz at the time.
She also got involved with Cooper Barrett, but when she feared he was falling for Lulu, seduced his Army buddy Logan Hayes for revenge.
After reuniting with Cooper, they went on the run when he was a suspect in Georgie Jones’s murder. He was found dead hanging in his room, but Maxie was insistent Cooper was innocent and worked with Damian Spinelli to prove that Diego Alcazar was the real killer.
Ultimately, Maxie and Lulu Spencer went from enemies to best friends, and moved in together.Maxie tried to keep Spinelli in the friend zone, but they soon gave in to the feelings they both had for each other.
She accepted his proposal, but when he saw how nervous she was about actually tying the knot, he agreed to have a “not” wedding instead.
Unfortunately, Maxie sleeping with the artist Robert “Franco” Frank destroyed her relationship with Spinelli. She attempted to flirt with Dr. Matt Hunter to get Spinelli to fight to win her back, but the plan backfired when he just broke up with her instead!
However, Maxie’s relationship with Matt fell apart when he was suspected of killing Lisa Niles. She married him to avoid having to testify against him, but Matt remembered his crime and confessed.
Maxie tried to turn her life around by offering to be Dante and Lulu’s surrogate, but it turned out the baby she was carrying was actually Spinelli’s from a heartbroken one-night stand! She initially let Dante and Lulu have the baby, but when the truth came out and a custody battle occurred, the judge granted custody of the baby girl to Spinelli.
Agreeing to name the infant after Maxie’s sister, Spinelli took Georgie with him and Ellie when they moved to Portland.
With Lucy dead, Maxie teamed up with Bobbie Spencer to plan the 2023 Nurses Ball, and was shocked to later learn that Lucy was really alive, just in hiding! She then drove Maxie nuts trying to take over the ball remotely.
Maxie also joined up with Brook Lynn and Sasha to help plan Michael and Willow’s wedding day. Despite how things went the last time Deception was featured on Home & Heart, Maxie persuaded Sasha to go back to plug the Deceptor and things worked out much better this time.
When Brook Lynn confessed to downloading a file on the Deceptor, she claimed it was for company business, but when Tracy Quartermaine took them to court, Maxie and Lucy realized she’d stolen the confidential information for her grandmother.
Maxie fired Brook Lynn and found herself in dire financial straits but refused Felicia’s offer to help her out with the bills and the rent on her new house (Dante agreed to lease Maxie his and Lulu’s old house so she’d have more room for her and the kids).
