Meredith Hagner

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Meredith Hagner (Liberty, ATWT)

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The 411

Twenty two-year-old Meredith Hagner was born in New York and raised in North Carolina. As a young girl, she always dreamed of being under the bright lights in the big city, and focused on acting and studied classical voice. She graduated high school in 2005, and after briefly attending the Boston Conservatory, packed her bags for New York City, where she picked up a waitressing job and set her sights on stardom.

Hagner has lent her voice to several radio advertisements and appeared in commercials for Radio Shack, Levi's, Subway and JC Penney. In addition, she appeared on the MTV dating show THE GAMEKILLERS. With just $10 to her name, she landed a plum role on AS THE WORLD TURNS as Janet and Jack's free-spirited daughter, Liberty Ciccone, and was nominated for an Outstanding Younger Actress Emmy in 2009.

Hagner's star is truly rising. In 2008, she played the lead role of Kim in a workshop production of Bye, Bye Birdie at the Roundabout Theater. She also landed a recurring role as Libby in the USA series ROYAL PAINS in 2009 alongside Mark Feuerstein. "It is such a blast because I've been there from the beginning, from the pilot," she tells Digest of her first prime-time part. "So it was an experience where everyone is in it. Everyone is a big team. It's a really loving, funny environment. I get to be a smart little teen in that one, which is fun."

Et Cetera

TV Roles
ROYAL PAINS (Libby, 2009)
LIGHTS OUT (Eva Leary, 2009)

Film Roles
Going The Distance (2010)

Career Highlights

Six Random Facts
—In her spare time, Hagner, who is a trained opera singer, writes and performs her own music in various NYC nightclubs.
—She is very involved in the Special Olympics, supporting her older sister who has Down syndrome.
—Her first waitressing job was in a restaurant that is, coincidentally, owned by Noelle Beck's (Lily, ATWT) husband.
—Her grandmother is a big ATWT fan.
—She had blond hair when she landed the role and was asked to dye it brown.
—Hagner was part of Digest's 2008 Hot List, in which we saluted soaps' freshest faces.

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