Maggie Horton is a fictional character from the NBC Daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives, a long-running serial drama about working class life in the fictional town of Salem. She has been portrayed by actress Suzanne Rogers since 1973, though she left the show briefly in 1984 and 2003. She was created by scriptwriter, William J. Bell, and producer, Betty Corday, as a romantic interest for original character, Mickey Horton (John Clarke). Maggie, however, would become a much bigger part of the show in later years.