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ATWT Soap Star Stats
Soap Star Stats
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Norway native Ewa da Cruz (pronounced Eh-vah) began modeling when she was only 8 years old after being discovered at a store. That same year, she appeared in her first play and discovered that she enjoyed acting.
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Marie Masters, an Ohio native, didn't become involved in showbiz until she was an adult. After graduating from high school, she attended Marian College in Indiana, where she obtained her bachelor's degree in art history. She then went to New York City ("I had about $35," she recalls) and got a job working at the city desk at Women's Wear Daily.
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Austin Peck was born in Hawaii, where his naval officer father was stationed. After his parents divorced when he was 4, his quirky actress mom took him and older sister Casey to San Francisco and later, L.A.
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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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"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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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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The shy, youngest daughter of six children in a strict Irish Catholic family, Ellen Dolan was raised in a small town in Iowa — her father was a "country doctor" — but was so intrigued by the idea of New York City that she joined the Girl Scouts in high school so that she could visit Tiffany's.
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Born Marie Flevaras (the oldest of three girls) in Athens, Greece, and raised mostly in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Marie Wilson began modeling in high school, after which she moved to L.A. The extensive modeling career eventually led to doing "tons" of commercials and then to acting.
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Michael Park (Jack, ATWT) was a "rambunctious" child who grew up with a brother and two sisters in Canandaigua, NY. He attended Nazareth College in Rochester, NY, with the goal of being an architect, until his girlfriend (and future wife) Laurie persuaded him to try out for musical-theater roles, and he began to pursue acting as a profession.
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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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Theresa Celeste Conn is the only child of a real-estate-agent mother and a (now-retired) Air Force officer father. The family moved often during her childhood, but eventually settled in Albuquerque, NM. Having forsaken acting for cheerleading in high school, Colombino was in her junior year as a communications major at University of San Diego when she went to Florence, Italy — and had an epiphany.
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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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Trent Dawson has been performing for as long as he's been walking — his mother started him on the stage early in his hometown of Baton Rouge, LA. But he tried to abandon the actor's life by studying for a year at Boston University. Then, he impulsively took off for Paris and ended up in Crete on the migrant worker circuit.
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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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First enrolled in dance classes when she was 3, Colleen Zenk Pinter found her calling early. Noting an affinity for performance in her oldest child (Colleen has a younger brother and sister), her mother got Pinter modeling and print work in nearby Chicago.
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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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Maura West was born on April 27 in Springfield, Mass. and raised in nearby Ludlow. She is the youngest of four children and has two brothers and one sister.
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The much beloved Eileen Fulton — "Miss Eileen" to some, Margaret McLarty as a child — grew up the daughter of a Methodist minister in Asheville, NC. And while she was a PK (preacher's kid), she wasn't destined for that profession. Fulton majored in music and minored in dramatics at Greensboro College in North Carolina.
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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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Born into a family of five children outside of Pittsburgh, PA, Tamara Tunie was raised in the funeral home where her father worked... She was discovered by an agent and soon moved to New York City, which would become her beloved new hometown.
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Scott Bryce's showbiz lineage spans at least four generations — he's the great-grandson of a circus juggler, the grandson of a vaudeville talent manager and the son of the late actor (ex-Bill, GL et al) and director Ed Bryce, who met and married Bryce's mom, Dorothy, while doing summer stock theater.
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The youngest of four children born in Ridgewood, NJ, Martha Byrne began her acting career at age 10 when she played July in Broadway's Annie. In 1984, she auditioned for but lost the role of Lily to Lucy Deakins.
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Jesse Soffer's career began with a Kix cereal commercial at age 6; he had played Bobby in the two BRADY BUNCH movies and co-starred with everyone from Susan Sarandon to the Olsen twins by the time he was 15, when he took the role of GL's Max.
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Born and raised in Malibu, CA, with mom Cindy and younger brother Sean, Jennifer Landon is the youngest daughter of Michael Landon. This quirky, engaging actress knew she wanted to follow in his footsteps at age 6, when her "performance" as Ursula the sea witch from The Little Mermaid went over well at a birthday party.
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Born in New York City, Grayson McCouch and sister Hannah (a novelist) were raised in the city's northern suburbs... His first love was horses, but as a self-described childhood "deviant," McCouch was sent to Connecticut boarding school, where he started doing summer theater.
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He did some local theater while growing up in small town Ocala, FL, but by the time Mark Collier got to high school, he equated drama club to "being in band." At Georgia Southern University, he majored in public relations, psychology and even accounting, but spent most of his time with his fraternity.
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As the middle child of five brothers growing up in Italy, Paolo Seganti first found the spotlight (and worked out his teenage aggression) in a boxing ring.... He always equated the ring to a stage, and sure enough, that's where a fashion photographer discovered him.
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Cady (pronounced "Katie") McClain was born and raised, along with her sister, Molly, in Southern California. Money was tight after her parents divorced, and with her mother's blessing, McClain began her acting career at age 9 — singing "I am stuck on Band-Aids" in a commercial.
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Jessica Dunphy lives in her own apartment in New York City which she decorated herself. In fact, if she wasn't an actress she would be an interior decorator.
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Jennifer Ferrin won the role of Jennifer on AS THE WORLD TURNS within a week of graduating from the North Carolina School of Arts with a degree in drama. She was no stranger to television, however, having played Esther, the younger version of Vanessa Redgrave's character in THE LOCKET, a Hallmark Hall of Fame film.
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Peter Parros joined AS THE WORLD TURNS as neurosurgeon Ben Harris in July 1996. He started his soap career on ONE LIFE TO LIVE, coincidentally as a doctor named Ben.
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