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OLTL Soap Star Stats
Soap Star Stats
Eddie Alderson was encouraged by his mother to work with his sister, Kristen Alderson, who plays Starr Manning on ONE LIFE TO LIVE. At first he was reluctant to join the show because he had never acted before.
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Sixteen-year-old Kristen Alderson was born, and continues to be raised, in Pennsylvania. The oldest child of Kathy and Rich Alderson, she was barely out of diapers when she got the acting bug.
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Melissa Archer had only one major acting credit to her name when she joined ONE LIFE TO LIVE in 2001, but handled being thrown into a front-burner story (when Natalie was revealed as Viki's daughter) with aplomb. The Texas native won over the audience with her sassy portrayal of Natalie and eventually nabbed Soap Opera Digest Awards for Outstanding Newcomer in 2003 and Favorite Triangle in 2005.
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Although she was second runner-up to I WANNA BE A SOAP STAR 3 winner Mike Jerome (ex-Ted, OLTL), it didn't take long for BethAnn Bonner to book a contract role as intuitive cop Talia on OLTL. After the final taping of SOAP STAR in 2006, OLTL Executive Producer Frank Valentini approached Bonner and gave her his business card.
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Although he graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in business, John Brotherton was driven to make a career of acting. So he packed up his car and headed straight to L.A., where he lived and worked for four years while booking the occasional acting gig.
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Born in Austin, TX, Buddy moved around the country with his family before returning to San Antonio after high school. There, a management company showed interest in him and encouraged him to move to L.A., where he took acting classes for six months until he started going on auditions.
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Phil Carey grew up in suburban Long Island in the towns of Malverne and Rosedale. He knew he wanted to be an actor at a very young age and studied drama at the University of Miami.
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Though the daughter of doctors (one of physics, the other of mathematics), Christina Chambers always knew she would be an actress. She grew up in Alexandria with her parents and three siblings.
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Native New Yorker Thom Christopher hails from the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights. Known to most soap fans as the golden-voiced villain Carlo Hesser, Christopher is also an accomplished theatrical actor.
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Born in Livonia, MI, and raised in Fullerton, CA, David Chisum came from what he describes as "humble roots, hardworking people." His parents, Linda and Ray, met in the second grade in the small town of Altus, OK, married and had their first child (his sister, Carol) at age 17.
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Three-time Emmy-nominated actor Scott Clifton's acting career began when he was 9 years old, and his mother gave him a copy of Hamlet to read. Within days, Clifton had memorized the "To be or not to be" speech! Being raised in Los Angeles, his mother introduced him to an actor who taught him about Shakespeare and acting.
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Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Kamar de los Reyes moved to Las Vegas at the age of two and was surrounded by a family of musicians. His father, Walfredo de los Reyes, is a renowned Cuban drummer and percussionist, and his older brothers, Daniel and Walfredo, Jr., are also professional percussionists.
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Kassie DePaiva's interest in the arts started when she was still in grade school. She first took to the stage when she was in the fifth grade. Throughout her childhood and teen years, she continued to sing in her church choir, participate in school plays and she was involved in class government. After graduating high school, DePaiva attended Indiana University and worked at Opryland in Nashville, TN.
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Michael Easton was born in Long Beach, CA, and raised in both the United States and Ireland, his parents' native country. After writing poetry inspired by such authors as Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver during high school, Easton went on to college with a double major in English and History.
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Born and raised in the Midwest, Andrea Evans first shined in the spotlight in beauty pageants. By age 10, she was doing regional theater and commercials. The bright high school student skipped a grade, graduated early and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Born and raised in Lexington, Ky., Farah Fath began modeling at the age of 5, and at the age of 9 tried her hand at acting. In 1995, Fath was named Miss Kentucky Pre-Teen. In 1999, she auditioned for the recurring role of Mimi on DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
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Dan Gauthier was born and raised in Central Oregon, where he was inspired to act at an early age by his mother, who was a stage actress in local theaters. At 18, he moved to California to attend San Diego State University, where he became very interested in sports, especially track.
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Like her ONE LIFE TO LIVE character, Evangeline, Renee Elise Goldsberry is tough and hard-working. This quality has allowed her to succeed as an actress and a musician.
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Toronto native Susan Haskell began modeling at the age of 16 and appeared in numerous television commercials while still in high school. After attending Tufts University in Boston, where she earned her bachelor's degree in biopsychology, she decided to pursue a career in acting and enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Catherine Hickland (Lindsay, OLTL)
— YOLANDA PEREZ
A veteran of six soaps, Catherine Hickland became addicted to the genre as a child when her babysitter would watch them. Later, while attending Fort Lauderdale High School, the Florida native took theater classes and became a self-described "drama nerd."
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Does Brian Kerwin look familiar? It's no wonder — his extensive resume includes film, theater and TV series from THE LOVE BOAT to BIG LOVE.
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Eager to jump-start her performing career, Brooklyn native Ilene Schatz left home at age 16. While she actively pursued dancing, singing and comedy, she became a soap star along the way. Dancing was her first love, but when that was sidelined by a thyroid condition, she shifted her focus to acting.
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Born John-Paul Seponski in Phoenixville, Pa., Lavoisier chose his new name after reading about Antoine Lavoisier in a science textbook while attending Phoenixville High School.
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Mark Lawson's ONE LIFE TO LIVE audition couldn't have come at a better time. After five years of pursuing acting in L.A., he decided to allow himself just 10 more auditions before calling it quits.
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Forbes March was born in Bristol, England and raised in Halifax.... March initially enrolled in the pre-med program at McGill University in Montreal, but left to explore artistic interests.
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Since taking the soap world by storm in 1998, Nathaniel Marston has earned a reputation as sort of a tough guy. After he got arrested for criminal mischief in 1999, some even referred to him as a "loose cannon."
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Adolfo Larrue Martinez, a.k.a. A Martinez, was born in Glendale, Calif. As a child, his family referred to him as "Little A" in order to distinguish him from his father and grandfather. Martinez’s heritage is Native American, Spanish and Mexican. Martinez performed in various singing talent competitions that earned him top titles, including at an event in the Hollywood Bowl when he was only 12 years old.
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Long before Pamela Payton-Wright began recurring as Addie, the actress made her mark on Broadway and in television, earning a prime-time Emmy Award nomination for her role as John Quincy Adams's wife in the 1976 TV miniseries THE ADAMS CHRONICLES.
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Paul Satterfield was born in Nashville, TN and raised in California. His father was a Nashville firefighter who was killed in the line of duty. The actor attended Whitman College in Washington on a basketball scholarship. He earned degrees in English literature and dramatic arts.
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Erika Slezak comes from a long line of established actors. Her father is the late Walter Slezak, who starred in numerous films and on Broadway. During his career, Walter won a Tony award for his performance in the hit Fanny. The legacy doesn't end there: Slezak's grandfather, Leo Slezak, was an acclaimed opera singer.
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Smith caught the acting bug at age 5, but she got her "big break" while attending Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, where a school production of Song Night in the City made it to off-Broadway. After several theater roles and prime-time TV gigs like NO SOAP, RADIO with Steve Guttenberg, Smith entered the daytime world.
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Born Christopher Stack, Jr. in Chicago, IL, to parents Chris and Ann, Stack was raised in Indianapolis, where his acting career started with nativity plays and a sixth-grade production of H.M.S. Pinafore.
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Timothy D. Stickney grew up with his four siblings in Wilmington, DE. His mother, Bell, was a housewife while his father, Felix, was a fund-raiser for the YMCA. Although his parents had hoped little Timothy would grow up to be a lawyer or a doctor, Stickney knew at a young age that he wanted to be an actor.
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Trevor St. John grew up in Orchard Prairie, Wash. He attended Whitworth college in Spokane on a jazz scholarship, where he got his first taste of acting. Hollywood came to Spokane to shoot the film Benny & Joon, and St. John was hired as Aidan Quinn’s stand-in.
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Soap viewers were first introduced to the dazzling Robin Strasser when she created the vixen Rachel Davis on ANOTHER WORLD in 1967. Since then, the lively and sometimes controversial actress has become a virtual fixture in daytime.
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Jason Tam was born and raised in Aina Haina, a town outside of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. He began performing in third grade when he appeared in a community theater production of Bye Bye Birdie.
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Jerry VerDorn was born in Sioux Falls, SD, but due to his father's job as a salesman, his family relocated often, settling in various parts of North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. VerDorn attended Moorhead State University in Minnesota with intentions of becoming an English teacher.
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Tuc Watkins was born Charles Curtis Watkins III on September 2, 1966 on the Kansas side of Kansas City. He and his family lived on the outskirts of the city in the Prairie Village and Mission areas. Watkins's family all moved to St. Louis, MO, when he entered high school.
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Austin Williams started showing everyone that he was someone very special when, at the age of 2, he started to spell words and could identify five-digit numbers. Two years later, he had taught himself to read. He scored 99.9 percent on an IQ test while in the first grade.
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Bree Williamson made her U.S. television debut when she landed the role of Jessica Buchanan on ONE LIFE TO LIVE in 2003. Before that, Williamson had only minor roles on Canadian television.
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Robert S. Woods originated the role of Bo Buchanan on ONE LIFE TO LIVE in 1979, a role which has earned him several accolades, including the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in 1983.
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