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DAYS Soap Star Stats
Soap Star Stats
One of four children whose parents immigrated to Australia from Greece, Thaao Penghlis was born in Sydney. Captivated by history and art, he originally dreamed of becoming an archaeologist, but his life took another turn when he moved to New York to study art history and fashion.
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One of daytime's most beloved stars, DAYS OF OUR LIVES' Deidre Hall (Marlena Evans Black) came to Salem in 1976, after gigs on EMERGENCY as Nurse Sally Lewis and on daytime as THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS's Barbara Anderson. Hall played Marlena until 1987 and then made a dramatic return to the show (and from the dead) in 1991.
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Growing up in Springfield, MO, Jay Kenneth Johnson attended Baptist church every Sunday, and always imagined he would be working a normal desk job someday. Less than two years and four different majors into his college career at Southwest Missouri State, he dropped out and moved to L.A. against his parents’ wishes.
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Rachel Melvin was born in Elmhurst, Illinois, but raised in Phoenix, Arizona. During high school, she choreographed Mountain Pointe Dance Company concerts and was part of the Southwest Valley Youth Orchestra where she played and studied violin. In 2003, after graduating high school, she picked up and moved to Los Angeles.
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Growing-up in chilly New England — Brockton, Mass. to be specific — Kristian Alfonso developed an early passion for figure skating. She became a Junior Olympic Champion with bright prospects, until a tobogganing accident caused multiple fractures to her landing leg.
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Out of high school Stephen Nichols was offered an art scholarship to Ohio State University, but he turned it down in favor of traveling west. There he studied Yoga and lived as a monk in a Hollywood ashram. It was three years later that Nichols found himself at the Theater Academy of Los Angeles City College for two years.
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A California girl, Mary Beth Evans was voted Best Actress by her fourth-grade classmates — and she never looked back. After several guest-starring prime-time roles as "the girl from Wisconsin," she landed the part of DAYS sweetheart Kayla Brady, which would make her daytime royalty, thanks to her chemistry with Stephen Nichols (Steve, "Patch").
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Alison Sweeney may have been sweet 16 when she joined DAYS, but fans soon found themselves loving to hate her not-so-sweet character. Though she was young, the Los Angeles native had already amassed an impressive set of credits as a child actor.
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Bryan R. Dattilo may be best known for playing DAYS's Lucas — the character he's portrayed for over a decade — but the Kankakee, IL native got his start in the biz when he was a child.
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Joseph Mascolo
was born and raised in West Hartford, CT. From early on, his passion was for classical music and opera. He hadn't considered acting until ... a drama coach realized he was destined to be on stage.
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One could say that Josh Taylor
's career has come full circle. Growing up in Chillicothe, IL, Taylor was more into sports than acting.... Though he was interested in performing, his busy schedule left little time for it.
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Frances Reid was born in Wichita Falls, Texas and raised in Berkeley, Calif. While living in California, the third child in her large family, her father taught her that she could be a capable and self-sufficient woman.
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Susan Seaforth Hayes has been a working actress nearly her entire life. She made her theatrical debut at the tender age of 4 playing Trouble to Dorothy Kirsten's Madame Butterfly.
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Though Judi Evans was born in Montebello, Calif. and grew up in Monterey Park, it would be accurate to add that the actress grew up professionally on daytime.
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Peter Reckell knew from an early age that he wanted to be an actor. After working behind the scenes in his junior high school productions, Reckell finally went on-stage in high school.
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Lauren Koslow has been making waves as the crafty Kate Roberts since 1996, but she didn't begin as an actress. The second of three children studied art at University of Massachusetts, then transferred to Virginia Tech, where she obtained a degree in costume design.
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Drake Hogestyn has been playing the complicated, complex John Black since early 1986. An Indiana native, Hogestyn dreamed of life as a professional baseball player.
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Matthew Ashford was bitten by the acting bug at 12 years old, when his sisters dragged him to auditions for a local play. A year later the family moved to Fairfax, Va., where he decided he had found his calling and became heavily involved in his high school drama program.
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