Rae Cummings is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live.

[4] Dano was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Supporting Actress in 2003,[7] and left One Life to Live on March 13, 2004.

She and the producers of One Life to Live reached a compromise where Gretel would now be using her middle name, Rae.

[8] It was later revealed on One Life to Live that Gretel had stolen the credentials of a man named Ray Cummings, and had been practicing psychology without a valid license.

[8] In a move designed to "entice viewers to tune into soap operas that they might not have usually watched," in 2000, then-president of ABC Daytime Angela Shapiro orchestrated Dano's concurrent appearance as Rae Cummings on the three other ABC daytime dramas at the time — All My Children, General Hospital, and Port Charles — in an extended crossover storyline, which was the first time a daytime character had appeared on four series.