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GH Soap Star Stats
Soap Star Stats
Alexandra Danielle Ainsworth began performing at the tender age of 6 when she danced with a local ballet company. She portrayed a Lullaby League Munchkin in her first professional production, The Wizard of Oz. Lexi later landed the lead role of Scout in the Actors Equity production of To Kill A Mockingbird.
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In November 2006, Bradford Anderson joined the cast of GENERAL HOSPITAL as the quirky Damien Spinelli. Born and raised in Meredith, New Hampshire, Anderson's mother encouraged both he and his sister, Jennifer, to get involved in theater.
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If Missouri native Brandon Barash hadn't become an actor, he says he would have been a doctor. That's because the then-USC student had a dual major: theater and pre-med.
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One of daytime's hottest stars, Maurice Benard has endeared himself to audiences as GENERAL HOSPITAL's moody mobster Sonny Corinthos for the past 10 years. Born and raised in San Francisco as Mauricio Morales, Benard's mom hails from El Salvador and his father is from Nicaragua.
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A bona fide California girl, Julie Marie Berman was born and raised in Los Angeles. Courted by casting directors and talent scouts from a young age, Berman had already starred in a number of commercials by the time most kids were learning their multiplication tables.
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Corbin Bernsen was born to Jeanne Cooper (Katherine, YOUNG AND RESTLESS) and Harry Bernsen in Hollywood, CA. He has two siblings — a brother, Collin, and a sister, Caren — who are also actors.
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Sarah Brown had an eclectic upbringing, living in various combinations with her mother, father and two siblings in cities throughout California. She began her acting career at the prestigious Los Angeles High School for the Performing Arts.
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Steve Burton was born in Indianapolis, IN and raised in Cleveland, OH and Chicago, IL. The only child of divorced parents, Burton spent his childhood living with his optician mother in the Midwest. At age 16, he went to Beverly Hills, CA to visit his father, a jockey and real-estate manager.
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Born in Kansas City, MO, Charleson knew at an early age that she wanted to act and made her way to New York City. There, she jumped into daytime and even garnered her first Emmy nomination. But it’s her classic commercial for Pearl Drops toothpaste that Charleson credits as her true entry into show business.
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Robin Christopher can be considered an overnight sensation. Spotted by a photographer in Boston as a teenager, she left her strict, Catholic upbringing and immediately headed to Japan for a three-month modeling stint. Following jobs in London and Germany, Christopher returned to the States.
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The youngest of four children, Tyler Christopher was born in Joliet, IL, but he grew up with his two sisters and brother in Delaware, OH. Accomplished in sports, he graduated from high school and attended Ohio Wesleyan University for two years, before heading to California to pursue a career in acting.
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Stuart Damon — born Stuart Michael Zonis — always loved making people laugh. The son of struggling Russian immigrants who came to America during the Bolshevik Revolution and settled in Brooklyn, NY, Damon become heavily involved in musical theater as a child.
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Raised just outside of Dallas, Texas boy Josh Duhon attended Collin Community College and Southern Methodist University. In his spare time, he enjoys boxing, true to his character Logan's bad boy image, and has been known to ride motorcycles.
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Jane Elliot, who by her own admission maintains a very private life, was born and raised in Manhattan. At the age of 31, Elliot created the role of the hell-raising Quartermaine daughter, Tracy.
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Genie Francis, daughter of Canadian actor Ivor Francis, was born on May 26 in Englewood, New Jersey. At just the young age of 14, shortly after a guest appearance on the ABC series FAMILY, she landed the role of Laura Spencer on GENERAL HOSPITAL.
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Anthony Geary grew up in Coalville, Utah — which actually had no coal, just one diamond in the rough and around 799 other people. Although his family's business was construction, it was the arts that fueled Geary.
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Nancy Lee Grahn grew up in Skokie, Ill. When she was a teenager she developed an interest in acting, making her first stage appearance as a pony in a community theater production of Oklahoma.
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Rick Hearst joined the cast of GENERAL HOSPITAL in November of 2002 as the passionate Ric Lansing. He grew up in New York in a tight-knit Italian Family. Rick's fascination for the ocean and sea life would have led him to a career in oceanography but, at the age of twelve, his focus shifted to acting when his mother remarried and they moved to Texas.
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The daughter of Oscar-winning art director Dale Hennesy, Carolyn Hennesy was born in Los Angeles and has appeared in over 100 stage, television and film productions. Hennesy studied acting at the American Conservatory Theatre, London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and was the recipient of a dramatic scholarship at California State Universty at Northridge.
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A California native, Rebecca Herbst became intrigued with acting when her older sister, Jennifer, appeared in a children's exercise video for Disney. The video's producer, who was also an agent, promptly arranged Herbst's first commercial audition for Banner toilet tissue, and she landed it at the tender age of 6.
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Enid, Oklahoma native Lynn Herring spent her childhood living all over the country since her father was an Air Force pilot. When she was a teen, her family ended up in Fairfax, Virginia, and she entered the Miss Virginia Teenage Pageant. She was shocked when she won, but decided to use the prize money for college.
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Jonathan Jackson eased his way into show business with commercial work and local modeling. He landed the plum role of Lucky Spencer on GENERAL HOSPITAL in 1993 during a trip to California.
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Anne Jeffreys was born on Jan. 26, 1923 in Goldsboro, N.C. She caught the performing bug at an early age; at 10 she had her own radio show in her home state. Jeffreys was a junior model for John Robert Powers in New York, while studying for an operatic career. From there she was offered and accepted a role in Fun for the Money, a musical review in Hollywood.
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Born in Hollywood and raised in Bethesda, Md., Ted King started acting in college and received his undergraduate degree from The University of California (Santa Barbara). He later studied film direction at the Tisch School of Arts at NYU and has worked in film editing as well as acting.
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Natalia Livingston was born in Johnstown, PA and grew up in Macon, GA. She started acting in high school and dabbled in acting classes at Emory University, where she earned her degree in sociology.
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Michigan native Lisa LoCicero knew she wanted to be an actress at age 13. After graduating from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, LoCicero landed her first soap, LOVING, and became one of the few cast members to make the transition when it morphed into THE CITY.
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Brad Maule was born in Rotan, Texas, and though he’s wandered the country pursuing musical and theatrical pursuits, he has always retained his love for the Lone Star state. “I was raised a cowboy kid,” he told Digest in 1997.
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GH’s Kimberly McCullough has been a working actor since the tender age of seven months. The Bellflower, California, native made her first TV appearance in a diaper commercial opposite Juliet Mills (Tabitha, PASSIONS).
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Born into a family of all girls, Kelly Monaco was a self-proclaimed tomboy... Her first acting gig came along in a big way in 1997, when she landed the recurring role of rookie lifeguard Susan on BAYWATCH.
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Sebastian Roché's sexy mercenary, James Craig, immediately caught the attention of Digest editors and fans. The actor first aired as the criminal mastermind behind the Metro Court hostage drama in January 2007.
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The king of quips, on-screen and off, Kin Shriner has been both a dramatic and a comedic favorite of soap audiences for nearly 30 years... Kin first made a name for himself in daytime in 1977 when he joined GH as earnest, young, law student Scotty.
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Kirsten Storms knew she wanted to become an actress at age 5, when she'd accompany her sports director father, Mike, to work and pretended she was a weather girl. Workers at the station actually recorded her "forecasts" so that Storms could critique her performance.
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The middle son of Phillip, a draftsman for the city of Edmonton, Canada, and Louise, a college administrator, Thompson grew up a clean-cut, Catholic schoolboy who enjoyed hockey and camping. One night while busing tables at a local restaurant, he was "discovered" by a modeling agent.
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Greg Vaughan, a self-proclaimed mama's boy, was born and raised in Dallas, TX. While in high school, he began modeling to raise a few bucks. Upon graduation, he headed to the runways of Italy.
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Dallas native Catherine Wadkins, who grew up in Portland, Ore., made her daytime debut as the widow Mary Bishop on GENERAL HOSPITAL.
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Born in Los Angeles, Ward and her family moved to Honolulu when she was 4. There, her parents started a theater company and began teaching acting. As a child, Ward soon found herself cast in the plays they produced.
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Growing up Jewish in a predominantly non-Jewish area of Connecticut, coupled with his slighter than average frame, Bruce Weitz admitted to Digest that he got into a lot of fights when he was young. To stay out of trouble, he found acting and hasn't looked back since.
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Annie Wersching grew up in St. Louis, Mo., where she used to compete in Irish dancing. After graduating from Millikin University (Decatur, Ill) in with a BFA in musical theater, she headed to Hollywood to pursue acting.
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Born in Atlanta, GA, and raised in Orange County, CA, Alicia Leigh Willis's acting career got off to a Grrrreat start when she was 15 years old and was cast in a Frosted Flakes commercial in which she played beach volleyball with none other than Tony the Tiger.
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Kari Wuhrer began her career as a model, which quickly led to work in commercials. She studied drama at NYU and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England with famed acting teacher Uta Hagen. Wuhrer became the hostess of the popular MTV game show REMOTE CONTROL in 1988.
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Prior to breaking into daytime television in 1991, Laura Wright (née Sisk) was a huge soap fan who read the magazines and was devoted to the ABC line-up... Wright never imagined that one day she'd be the one profiled in Soap Opera Digest.
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As a youth, John J. York grew up in a blue collar, Catholic section of Chicago as the fifth of six children. He loved playing football but being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at age 15 changed his life.
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Jacklyn Zeman was born in Englewood, N.J. At the age of 15, she completed her high school studies and moved to the Big Apple on a dance scholarship from New York University.
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