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Soap Star Stats G-H-I
Soap Star Stats G-H-I
Acting wasn't always at the forefront of Jennifer Gareis' "beautiful" mind. With algebra and geometry as her favorite subjects in school, she took the advice of her older sister and worked toward a career in accounting. She attended Franklin & Marshall College located in her hometown, Lancaster, PA, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.
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One of four children born to an army officer and his artist wife, Maureen Garrett spent most of her childhood in Europe. Before landing GL in 1976, Garrett held jobs ranging from editor of an American newspaper in Germany to a freelance photographer to a Head Start teacher in Philadelphia.
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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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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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While going to high school in Los Angeles, Galen Gering tagged along with a friend to a hair salon, where he was asked to model for their ad. The spontaneous gig spearheaded Gering's modeling career. He headed to New York and completed his high school courses via mail.
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Kelli Giddish began acting at an early age in her hometown of Cummings, Georgia. She was involved in the theater department of her high school and graduated with a degree in performance arts from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana.
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Australian native Daniel Goddard created the role of Ethan "Cane" Ashby,
Jill's biological son who Katherine gave away as an infant, on YOUNG AND RESTLESS. Goddard was a year shy of completing a degree in finance when he decided to switch gears and go for a career in acting.
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Born into a show-business family (his father is an internationally recognized magician and hypnotist), Ricky Paull Goldin made his television debut on ROMPER ROOM at the age of 3. Dad left the family, causing Goldin to break ties with his father.
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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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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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Michael Graziadei joined the cast of THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS as a recast of Daniel Romalotti Jr. Graziadei was born in Germany and began acting at the age of 5 when he was in a production of The King and I. His family later moved to Nashua, N.H. where he starred in a production of The Basset Table.
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Born in Van Nuys, California, Grimes has acting in her blood. Her mother is actress Heather Grimes, her father is actor/producer Preston Lee, and her uncle is actor Scott Grimes.
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One of daytime's most beloved stars, DAYS OF OUR LIVES' Deidre Hall (Marlena Evans Black) came to Salem in 1976, after gigs on EMERGENCY as Nurse Sally Lewis and on daytime as THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS's Barbara Anderson. Hall played Marlena until 1987 and then made a dramatic return to the show (and from the dead) in 1991.
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Van Hansis was born in Greenfield, Mass. He describes his childhood as "an almost absurdly quaint upbringing, literally on top of a mountain criss-crossed with roads named after family members."
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A self-admitted "good ol' boy from the South," Winsor Harmon was born in Louisiana, then moved with his family to Rockwall, TX. A gifted athlete, he later attended Texas A&M University on a football scholarship, but soon became disillusioned with the "big business and politics" of college sports.
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Emily Harper was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has lived in Missouri, New Jersey and California. She majored in dance at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In 2000, she landed a spot as a prestigious Laker Girl (a dance team for the L.A. Lakers NBA team), a gig she juggled with her studies until 2003, when she left the squad to concentrate on acting.
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Born in Anaheim Hills, Calif., Schae Harrison loved performing from an early age and enrolled in her first dance class at the age of four. Her love of dance and her skills as a choreographer eventually landed her a position with the NFL Seattle Seahawks cheerleading squad, where she stayed for three years.
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Lindsay Hartley, born Lindsay Korman, was raised in Palm Springs, CA. The actress of Greek and Italian descent spent her teenage years often singing in pageants — and winning the talent competitions.
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Since 1960, he's been Oakdale Memorial's steadfast, avuncular Dr. Bob, and while he shares his debonair doctor's kindness and charm, Don Hastings rarely gets to display the sharp wit for which he is beloved at the ATWT studio.
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Alexa Havins joined the cast of ALL MY CHILDREN in October of 2003 when the feisty Babe Carey made her Pine Valley entrance. Havins was born in New Mexico but grew up in Arizona and is extremely close with her family.
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Susan Seaforth Hayes has been a working actress nearly her entire life. She made her theatrical debut at the tender age of 4 playing Trouble to Dorothy Kirsten's Madame Butterfly. When not even a teenager, she toured with Billie Burke (known to all as the Good Witch on The Wizard of Oz) in the play Mother Was a Bachelor.
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"He knows what he's doing and he's a very nice young man, so boy, does that make my job easy!" praises Emmy-winner Maura West (Carly) of her on-screen son, Mick Hazen, who took over the role when Parker was aged in December 2006.
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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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Amelia Heinle has been fighting her way to the top since her first audition at LOVING. As an aspiring actress, the Arizona native worked at a coat check in Manhattan. On a lunch break, she caught a cab to a LOVING audition, but was thrown off when the cab brought her to the ONE LIFE TO LIVE set.
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Shelley Hennig became interested in performing when she was only 2 and began taking dancing lessons. She continued dancing throughout her teen years, finding comfort in the discipline after her older brother, Brad, was killed in a car accident and her parents divorced.
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The eldest of three children, Jon Hensley was raised by restaurateur parents in Bucks County, PA. Though he always wanted to act, he first studied broadcast journalism at New York University for six months before briefly working as a model.
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The second of three daughters (Kathleen, Kelley and Karoline) born to the tight-knit Menighan family, Kelley Menighan Hensley was raised outside of Chicago, IL. After receiving her liberal arts degree from Southern Methodist University, she moved to L.A., where she became so fed up with the acting business after five years, she almost went into production instead.
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Although Lynn Herring was born in Enid, Okla., she calls Jennings, La. her home. As an Air Force kid, Herring attended more than 15 schools in 10 states and Puerto Rico. After earning her degree in psychology from Louisiana State University, Herring moved to New York City and worked as a model.
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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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Drake Hogestyn began playing the complicated, complex John Black in early 1986. An Indiana native, Hogestyn dreamed of life as a professional baseball player, but majored in microbiology at University of South Florida and also considered becoming a dentist if all else failed.
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Scott Holmes was born in West Grove, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Oxford, P.A. He attended Oxford Area High School, where he represented his school in the All-State Choir and All-State Band.
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Born and raised in Westchester County, just north of New York City, Roger Howarth seemed destined for the stage — his father was involved in theater and wrote plays.
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Elizabeth Hubbard created the role of AS THE WORLD TURNS' conniving and ruthless business magnate Lucinda Walsh in April 1984. But this was not her first foray into the world of Daytime television.
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Liza Huber, daughter of daytime legend Susan Lucci, grew up in Garden City on Long Island, where she was a competitive equestrian and a high school cheerleader. She did her undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received a degree in communications with a specialty in film production.
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Doug Hutchison grew up in Detroit and Minneapolis and eventually relocated to New York City, where he attended Juilliard for a brief period. After that he studied for two years with Sanford Meisner. Doug worked an assortment of odd jobs while working in regional and Off-Broadway stage work.
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When James Hyde graduated from high school, he joined the Army and became a field medic, work he loved because it gave him the opportunity to make a difference and save lives. While stationed in Hawaii, he was spotted by a photographer and before long the 6-foot-1-inch Hyde became a favorite model of such designers as Versace, Ferre and Valentino.
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Vincent Irizarry was raised in Long Island, N.Y. He was interested in the arts as a young child. While studying piano at Berklee College of Music in Boston, he developed a fondness for acting. Before getting his first professional role with the New York Shakespeare Festival, he starred in Boston-based productions.
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