If there’s something familiar about GENERAL HOSPITAL’s FBI Special Agent Winnifred Leeds (Senta Moses), you may remember her as perky sorority sister Lizzi from ABC Family’s GREEK. Or maybe you just think the Priestess of Cyberspace is a distaff version of Damian Spinelli, the Jackal of Cyberspace. Well, Winnifred is no computerized clone! 
Soap Opera Weekly: How did you land this role?
Senta Moses: I auditioned for a role on GENERAL HOSPITAL two years ago — the role of Nikolas’ [son Spencer’s] nanny. I hadn’t seen [casting director] Mark Teschner since then, but back in December, he called my agent and offered me four episodes as Winnifred. Then it grew into more.
Weekly: Did you consciously try to make Winnifred a female version of Spinelli?
Moses: It’s funny; a lot of people have asked me that. When I was first given the role, I watched one scene of Bradford [Anderson, Spinelli] on YouTube, just to get an idea of who his character is and the sort of situation I was walking into. But I never modeled Winnifred after him, because I felt she should be a person in her own right. It’s kind of funny the way that the producers and writers have kept me on the show, because they love the two of us together and how similar we are, and how we work off each other.
Weekly: So it’s all going according to plan?
Moses: To be honest, that wasn’t intentional; it was the choices I made based on the writing and who I think the character is. It just happens that Spinelli and Winnifred are two peas in a pod. I never intentionally copied him in that way, because I want them to be two separate characters. I think it’s more interesting if they are similar but have differences.
Weekly: So are you enjoying playing the Jackal’s Priestess?
Moses: I’m having a blast with her. It doesn’t suck to play such a fun, goofy, quirky character, and the writers are really writing fun stuff for me. They’re always throwing the comedy in with the drama. I’m able to work both sides of my skills, as opposed to just doing a drama or a comedy, as would happen if I was on a [prime-time] sitcom or a one-hour drama. It’s fun to be able to go back and forth.
