General Hospital and The Young and the Restless Alums Team Up for New Hallmark Movie
Lyndsy Fonseca, who played Colleen Carlton on The Young and the Restless, and Khary Payton, who played Dr. Terrell Jackson on General Hospital, are teaming up for a new Hallmark movie. Titled Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story, the project is the third installment of the network’s successful Holiday Touchdown franchise.
Lyndsy Fonseca and Khary Payton’s Soap History
Fonseca will play the role of Avery, while Payton is set to appear as a character named Ron.
On Y&R, Fonseca appeared from 2001-05 as Colleen, the daughter of Traci Abbott (Beth Maitland) and Brad Carlton (Don Diamont). She assumed the role when Colleen, who was born on screen in 1992, was aged up to a teenager.
After her exit from the show, Fonseca played the recurring role of Penny Mosby, Ted Mosby’s (Josh Radnor) future daughter, on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and recurred on Desperate Housewives as Dylan Mayfair, the adopted daughter of Adam Mayfair (Nathan Fillion, ex-Joey Buchanan, One Life to Live). She is also known for her work as Alex Udinov in The CW’s Nikita and movies like Hot Tub Time Machine.
The actress has starred in multiple projects for Hallmark, including Next Stop, Christmas, Where Are You, Christmas?, Holiday Crashers, Single on the 25th and The Love Heist.
Payton appeared on GH in 2011. His character, Terrell, was a doctor who had been romantically involved with the deranged Dr. Lisa Niles (Brianna Brown). Lisa, who had her sights set on Dr. Patrick Drake (Jason Thompson), tasked Terrell with seducing Patrick’s wife, Dr. Robin Scorpio-Drake (Kimberly McCullough), but he couldn’t bring himself to go through with the mission.
After his character’s quiet exit from Port Charles, Payton starred as Ezekiel Sutton, also known as King Ezekiel, on AMC’s The Walking Dead and has had a prolific career as a voiceover actor, including a long-running role as Cyborg on DC Comics’ animated Teen Titans Go!
Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story filmed in Chicago in July and will premiere as part of the Hallmark Channel’s holiday season lineup later this year.
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