The actress was born Marcy Faith Behrens. She used the name Marcy Rylan when she played GUIDING LIGHT's Lizzie and Y&R's Abby.
She was discovered in a mall by a modeling agent.
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Rylan and her partner Don Money have two sons, Jackson and Levi. They are expecting the birth of a daughter this month.
Rylan was a self-described nerd. “I’ve had glasses since the first grade. Straight-A student, horrible haircut, pretty chubby. I had to wear an eye patch in fifth grade because I had double vision. I color-coordinated them to my outfit. It was tragic,” she recalled. “My family is really academic, so no one in the house ever said, ‘You’re pretty,’ or talked about looks. I had no idea that people were supposed to care about looks at all. I was just talking about that with my friends: how oblivious I was. Right before ninth grade, the braces came off, I lost weight and got contacts; they straightened my hair. Then I got tortured.”
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Rylan appeared in BRING IT ON: ALL OR NOTHING opposite Hayden Panettiere (Juliette, NASHVILLE), who played GUIDING LIGHT's Lizzie from 1996-2000. When Rylan landed the role of Lizzie in 2006, she shared the news right away. “I called her the day I found out I got it and she was dying."
