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GL Soap Star Stats
Soap Star Stats
Born the only girl and middle child to Don and Priscilla, Crystal Chappell had a semi-nomadic lifestyle growing up. Her family moved constantly, constructing houses wherever they went (the family often slept in the abodes before they were finished and sold). Shy and overweight, Chappell has confessed that she was often an outsider growing up.
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Gina Tognoni was raised in Syracuse, NY and in Rhode Island. She attended a Catholic high school and was intent on pursuing a degree at Emerson College when she won Miss Teen Rhode Island, her first pageant.
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Frank Dicopoulos never imagined he'd be celebrating 20 years on daytime. In fact, he never thought he'd become an actor at all. Growing up in Akron, Ohio, in a large, close-knit Greek family, Frank was an all-star athlete.
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Marj (Marjorie) Dusay never imagined a life in the spotlight. Growing up the second of six children in a large Irish/Bohemian family, she was more interested in academics and athletics than theatrics.
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Originally from Danville, Vermont, Beth Chamberlin grew up with her three brothers. She got her first taste of acting while living in Vermont, but ballet soon became her great interest. Chamberlin's love of ballet led her to enroll at New York University to study dance, but she later changed her focus to acting.
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Born the third of five children, Beth Ehlers grew up on Roosevelt Island in New York City. She was discovered at age 10, when she was spotted by a talent agent while making her acting debut in a church play.
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Marcy Rylan grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where she pursued her first love — dance — from an early age. "My mom put me in ballet shoes as soon as I could stand up and, and I started doing commercial and print modeling when I was in junior high," she recalled to Soap Opera Weekly.
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Born in Rochester, NY, Jordan Clarke was raised on a horse farm. After high school, he enrolled in Cornell University, where he double-majored in philosophy and government. At Cornell, he also participated in several plays and took arts courses, which prompted his post-graduate move to New York City.
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Rob Bogue was born in Nebraska, but was raised in Kansas and Kentucky. While attending Colorado College, where he played basketball, he met director Sydney Pollack, the father of a classmate, and was intrigued by the idea of acting for a living.
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Ron Raines' love for singing came at an early age. Growing up in Texas, he was the oldest of three children. His father was a judge and minister, his mother a newspaper employee. Raines sang in the church choir and glee club.
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Los Angeles native Bradley Cole is one of five children. He went to Pepperdine University in Malibu with the intention of playing sports. An arm injury took him off the baseball field and introduced him to acting.
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Born in Grand Rapids, Mich., Kim Zimmer studied acting at nearby Hope College and continued her training at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
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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.
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Raised in Diamond Barr, CA with his sister and two brothers, sports-driven Michael O'Leary intended to be a broadcast announcer. After landing a McDonald's commercial in college, O'Leary switched to acting.
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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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Considered one of daytime's finest actors (if six Emmy wins are any indication), as well one of the most press shy, Justin Deas has carved a notable career in the medium since his debut on RH as Dr. Bucky Carter in 1975.
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Born the third of seven children, Daniel Cosgrove did not catch the acting bug until he was an adult. Painfully shy as a child and adolescent, Cosgrove excelled at sports, not public speaking, at his all-boys Catholic high school.
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In retrospect, it seems fitting that David Andrew Macdonald hails from Washington, D.C. His political acumen and fervor for debates are often mentioned by colleagues as some of his more endearing traits.
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Tom Pelphrey exploded onto the soap scene in the summer of 2004 and instantly charmed viewers and snakes alike. (His own boa constrictor, Mitch, played Jonathan's on-screen pet, Lou.)
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The youngest of three brothers, Grant Aleksander grew up in a suburb of Baltimore, MD. He studied theater at Washington and Lee University, where he met his wife, Sherry Ramsey.
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A GENERAL HOSPITAL and ONE LIFE TO LIVE fan from childhood, Nancy St. Alban immediately thought about acting on soaps when a friend mentioned that she had found a small, private school that specialized in actin.
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Paul Anthony Stewart ventured into acting out of sibling rivalry. He was raised in Philadelphia by his mother and stepfather, and has two brothers. One of his mother's favorite stories involves Stewart jumping on tables, demanding his parents' attention.
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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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Caitlin Van Zandt was born and raised in New York City. She spent much of her childhood growing up in the wings of Radio City Music Hall, where her mother is a wardrobe supervisor. ("It was quite an interesting upbringing, an interesting playground," Van Zandt muses.)
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