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PROFILE

Star of the Week

Rick Hearst

ON SOAP OPERA DIGEST AND WEEKLY ONLINE

Bio

— ABC

Rick Hearst (Ric, GH)

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. MORE

Interviews

Interviews With Rick

— ABC

Q&A With GH's Rick Hearst

GENERAL HOSPITAL's Ric Lansing is a loser at love — and just about everything else. With two failed marriages under his belt, he is suddenly single and on the prowl for a new woman. Rick Hearst weighs in on the state of Ric's love life and what he would like to see in his character's future. MORE

— ABC

Rick Hearst: Brotherly Love?

After all the years it took Ric to make nice with big brother Sonny, Ric's pushing Sonny toward a nervous breakdown has shocked GENERAL HOSPITAL viewers. What happened to the brotherly bond they'd been forming? MORE

Interviews Mentioning Rick

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Five Minutes With ... Stephen Macht

On GENERAL HOSPITAL, stage and screen vet Stephen Macht plays powerful mob lawyer Trevor Lansing, who happens to be a horrible father to his son, Ric, and stepson Sonny. Here, the actor waxes poetic on his larger-than-life alter ego, and boasts about his own real-life boy. MORE

Features

Features Featuring Rick

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DAYS: Trading Places

Tamara Braun, formerly mob moll Carly Corinthos on GENERAL HOSPITAL, joins the DAYS OF OUR LIVES cast this month as a mystery woman named Ava, who shares a past with Steve Johnson. This isn't the first time a GH alumnus has relocated to Salem (or a DAYS star has defected to Port Charles). Heck, Stephen Nichols (Steve) did it! MORE

Features About Rick

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Rick Hearst Cover Slideshow

Rick Hearst is in the select club of soap stars who have graced Digest covers for more than one soap role. In fact, Hearst has turned up for four different roles: GL's Alan-Michael with loves Lucy (Sonia Satra) and Eleni (Melina Kanakaredes) and rival Frank (Frank Dicopoulos); Y&R's Matt, who tormented Sharon (Sharon Case) and Nick (Joshua Morrow); B&B's Whip, who claimed to be the sire of Brooke’s (Katherine Kelly Lang) child with Deacon (Sean Kanan) and his current role as GH's Ric, who was married to Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn), but bedded her secret daughter. MORE

Features Mentioning Rick

— ABC

Catching Up With ... Cynthia Preston (ex-Faith, GH, 2002-05)

Digest: You’ve got so much going on, we don’t know what to talk about first. Tell us about the upcoming Evening with the Stars.
Preston: This is such a fun event... MORE

 

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