Barbara Jean "Bobbie" Spencer, RN is a fictional character from the ABC soap opera General Hospital, portrayed by Jacklyn Zeman.

[5] Barbara Jean “Bobbie” Spencer, was born in Port Charles on July 8, 1957[6] and raised in a poor family living near the docks, along with her big brother, Luke.

Bobbie's only happiness came from the arrival of Ruby Anderson, her aging aunt who had given up "the life" and became part of the cleaning staff at General Hospital.

Noah made it clear he did not want to make a commitment, also dating sexy blonde nurse Stacey Rawlins.

She decided to move to New York after her relationship with Noah fizzled, but returned the following year and tried once again to win him back before he left town for another position.

She was initially charged with his murder but her attorney Jake Meyer proved that Ginny Blake Webber killed him.

Martha, who was suffering from pneumonia, had to move to Colorado after taking a turn for the worse, and Bobbie agreed to raise her kids, 10-year-old Skeeter and teenage Melissa.

The recently returned Scotty Baldwin bailed her out, but her arrest made headlines in Port Charles; Melissa and Skeeter were taken away from her, and she and Jake weren't allowed to adopt.

Jake left town to help flood victims in Paraguay, partially due to being sick of her need for children.

After weeks of talk and flirting, she finally agreed to go on a weekend with him, but a political party drafted him to run for the state assembly.

Also in 1992, Bobbie began writing letters to ex-convict and cop killer Joseph Atkins after being impressed by his book, Violence Tamed.

In 1994, while spying for Luke, she began a flirtation with the evil Damian Smith, in fact Tony caught them in the stairwell of General Hospital embracing the day that B.J.

Bobbie consummated her romance with Damian after Tony threw her out, but when she learned he had only seduced her as part of a bet with Lucy, she left him to die in the catacombs.

They separated and after counseling eventually found their way back to each other, but Tony was emotionally spent and things were never quite the same with them.

She drugged a glass of wine he was drinking and thinking he had finished it, removed a medallion from around his neck that was the key they needed to open up a box he had.

When Bobbie found out Luke had known for a few years, and had lied to her that her baby had died, she coldly berated him, promising to never forgive what he had done.

The height of her embarrassment was when their sexual exploits in the GH board room were accidentally filmed and shown at the Nurse's Ball.

Just before Jerry's arrest, Bobbie was stunned to find her old flame, Roy DiLucca, supposedly dead, was alive, well and in town.

Bobbie learned Roy was a federal agent, responsible for busting Jerry, but managed to forgive him before he was taken back to jail.

Roy agreed, but the plan backfired on Carly when Sonny refused to cooperate, then dumped her after he learned of her part in the sting.

Scott began harassing Carly for information on Alexis Davis, the candidate running against him, and this is what fizzled the relationship between the duo.

On the dark side of things, various conflicts put Carly's pregnancy in jeopardy on many occasions and caused reasons for friends and family to worry.

Though Bobbie was thankful that Carly and Luke made it out of the fire alive, she was saddened to learn that Scott ended up dying in it.

Bobbie wasn't too happy when Durant chose to move to Port Charles, but she was soon up to it in her eyeballs when she learned that Laura was still alive.

When Kristina Davis is hospitalized after being beaten by her boyfriend, Bobbie shares with Alexis the pain of being abused by both her father and her husband.

As she boards her plane she runs into former boyfriend, surgeon Noah Drake, who tells her he's moving to Seattle to work at the same hospital she does.

After Bobbie collapsed at the 2016 nurse's ball and had to be admitted as a patient, she was attacked and drugged, presumably by the hospital serial killer.

In July 2017, Bobbie came home from GH one night and discovered that her granddaughter Josslyn had thrown a huge party.

On Election Day 2020, It was revealed that Bobbie's grandmother, Beatrice Eckert was a suffragist who helped secure the women's right to vote in New York State in 1917.

In 2023, Charlie Mason from Soaps She Knows placed Bobbie #17 on his ranked list of General Hospital’s 40+ Greatest Characters of All Time, commenting that she had "come a long way" and "The scheming ex-hooker was transformed over the decades from desperate to dependable — miraculously, without losing the mischievous twinkle in her eye.