Rebecca Budig

After appearing in the music video for Aerosmith’s “Living on the Edge” and a small role in Batman Forever, Rebecca Budig joined the cast of Guiding Light, where she played Michelle Bauer from 1995-98. In 1999, she was cast as Greenlee Smythe on All My Children and earned two Daytime Emmy Award nominations for her work, taking home a Soap Opera Digest Award in 2003. The actress joined General Hospital as Hayden Barnes in 2015, and after her exit in 2017, returned for another run in 2019. Budig then added another soap to her lengthy resume when she took over the role of Taylor Hayes on Bold and Beautiful in 2024. She and husband Michael Benson are parents to a daughter, Charlotte (b. 2014).