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Gina Tognoni is an American actress. Tognoni has won Miss Rhode Island Teen USA in 1991 and Miss Rhode Island Teen All-American in 1993. In 1995, she was cast as Kelly Cramer on ABC's soap opera One Life to Live, a role she originated and portrayed to 2001. Tognoni returned to daytime television... as Dinah Marler on CBS's Guiding Light in July 2004 and won her first Daytime Emmy in 2006 for her work on the soap. In 2007, she was nominated again in the same category but lost out to Genie Francis. She won her second Emmy in 2008, becoming only the second actress to become a repeat winner in the Supporting Actress category. On September 20, 2009, it was announced that Tognoni would be appearing in the webseries Venice: The Series, as Sami, along with former Guiding Light cast members Crystal Chappell and Jessica Leccia. On September 23, 2009, it was announced that Tognoni would be reprising her role of Kelly Cramer on One Life to Live. Became engaged to Joseph Chiarello on November 21, 2007. She was introduced to him by her co-star Beth Ehlers. The two were married on May 16, 2009.
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Kevin Mambo is a Zimbabwean/Canadian actor. He is best known for his role on the CBS Daytime serial Guiding Light in the role of Marcus Williams which won him two Daytime Emmys in the younger actor category. Mambo was born in Zimbabwe and raised in Canada. He was on Guiding Light and was in the... play Ruined where he helped the author with authenticity when it came to Africans. He was in the film Cadillac Records. He spent a year on One Life to Live from 2000-2001. Mambo currently plays Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in the broadway production of the musical Fela! at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
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Rick Hearst is an American actor, best known for roles in US soap operas. Born in Queens, New York in 1965 and raised in Dallas, Texas. Hearst has been married to wife Donna Smoot since 9 June 1990; they have two sons Cameron and Nicholas. Although his real last name is Herbst, he is not related... to his General Hospital co-star Rebecca Herbst . His first film was titled Brain Damage directed by Frank Henenlotter. He has appeared in Days of our Lives as Scott "Scotty" Banning II, Guiding Light as Alan-Michael Spaulding, The Young and the Restless as the sinister Matt Clark, and The Bold and the Beautiful as Whipple "Whip" Jones III. He will return as Whipple on July 16, 2009. Since 2002, he has appeared on General Hospital as Ric Lansing. His last airdate was June 25, 2009. Hearst also had a recurring guest-star role on Beverly Hills, 90210, and has guest-starred on other TV series such as Jenny and Pacific Blue.
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Judi Evans is an American Emmy Award–winning actress,. She played Beth Raines on the CBS series Guiding Light from , but is best known for playing Adrienne Johnson Kiriakis a role she originated in 1986 on NBC's long running Days of our Lives. She was a regular cast member from 1986 until... 1991, then returned in 2003 to play Bonnie Lockhart, another role she originated and played until early 2007. Later in 2007, she returned to Days of our Lives to reprise the role of Adrienne Johnson Kiriakis which she has played on a recurring basis since then. Evans was born in Montebello, California. Evans married Michael Luciano, her second husband on November 20, 1993. Their son, Austin Luciano, was born on May 26, 1996. Her pregnancy, in which she gained 80 pounds, and subsequent lack of weight loss, was highly publicized in the media. With Evans' input, her life experience led to a storyline on Another World in which her character, Paulina, became addicted to crystal meth to lose her pregnancy weight.
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Maeve Kinkead is an American soap opera actress. After numerous roles on stage, Kinkead's first major role was as Angie Perrini on the soap Another World. She portrayed Angie from 1975 to 1980. Kinkead is best known to television audiences for her role as Vanessa Chamberlain on the soap opera... Guiding Light. She played the role from June 1980 to early 1987, April 1989 to September 1996, April 1997 to August 2000, and May to September 2002, March to October 2005, and September 2006 until the show's finale episode on September 18, 2009. She garnered five Daytime Emmy nominations during her time on the show, winning for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 1992. In 1995, she received her first nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress. Vanessa was a popular, central character; the character's rivalry with Nola Reardon , the wife of her brother Quint , was a popular storyline. Memorable scenes from this storyline included a public fight at the Civil War-themed Antebellum Ball, in which Vanessa and Nola showed up in the same dress. Years later, Vanessa renewed her rivalry with Nola when she married Nola's nephew Matt Reardon .
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Maeve Kinkead is an American soap opera actress. After numerous roles on stage, Kinkead's first major role was as Angie Perrini on the soap Another World. She portrayed Angie from 1975 to 1980. Kinkead is best known to television audiences for her role as Vanessa Chamberlain on the soap opera... Guiding Light. She played the role from June 1980 to early 1987, April 1989 to September 1996, April 1997 to August 2000, and May to September 2002, March to October 2005, and September 2006 until the show's finale episode on September 18, 2009. She garnered five Daytime Emmy nominations during her time on the show, winning for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 1992. In 1995, she received her first nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress. Vanessa was a popular, central character; the character's rivalry with Nola Reardon , the wife of her brother Quint , was a popular storyline. Memorable scenes from this storyline included a public fight at the Civil War-themed Antebellum Ball, in which Vanessa and Nola showed up in the same dress. Years later, Vanessa renewed her rivalry with Nola when she married Nola's nephew Matt Reardon .
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Maeve Kinkead is an American soap opera actress. After numerous roles on stage, Kinkead's first major role was as Angie Perrini on the soap Another World. She portrayed Angie from 1975 to 1980. Kinkead is best known to television audiences for her role as Vanessa Chamberlain on the soap opera... Guiding Light. She played the role from June 1980 to early 1987, April 1989 to September 1996, April 1997 to August 2000, and May to September 2002, March to October 2005, and September 2006 until the show's finale episode on September 18, 2009. She garnered five Daytime Emmy nominations during her time on the show, winning for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 1992. In 1995, she received her first nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress. Vanessa was a popular, central character; the character's rivalry with Nola Reardon , the wife of her brother Quint , was a popular storyline. Memorable scenes from this storyline included a public fight at the Civil War-themed Antebellum Ball, in which Vanessa and Nola showed up in the same dress. Years later, Vanessa renewed her rivalry with Nola when she married Nola's nephew Matt Reardon .
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Crystal Chappell  /ʃəˈpɛl/ is an American actress. She played Carly Manning on Days of our Lives from 1990 to 1993, Maggie Carpenter on One Life to Live from 1995 to 1997 and Olivia Spencer on Guiding Light from 1999 to 2009. On October 2, 2009, she began reprising the... role of Carly Manning. In May 2011, Chappell revealed she did not renew her contract with DAYS, and left the series on-screen in September. Chappell's first daytime appearance was as a day player on All My Children in 1989. In a July 2006 interview in industry magazine Soap Opera Digest, Chappell recalled actor Maurice Benard helping her through her first scenes. After a brief run on Santa Barbara in 1990, , Chappell was cast as Dr. Carly Manning Alamain on Days of our Lives. She portrayed the role from June 1990 to October 1993. Chappell and future husband Michael Sabatino met on Days of our Lives, where he played villain Lawrence Alamain.
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Kim Zimmer is an American actress. She is known for her role as Echo DiSavoy on One Life to Live and best known for her role as Reva Shayne on Guiding Light. Zimmer's career began with stage work; an early television role was her portrayal of the character of Bonnie Harmon on One Life to Live in... 1978. In 1979, she was tapped to replace Kathleen Turner as Nola Dancy Aldrich on The Doctors. After The Doctors was canceled in 1982, she had a brief return to One Life to Live from February through November 1983 as Echo DiSavoy. On August 17, 2010, it was announced that after a twenty-seven year absence, Zimmer would reprise the role of Echo, effective October 1. Zimmer will be featured in a story along with former Guiding Light co-star Jerry verDorn , Robin Strasser and Erika Slezak . She reprised the role on October 1, 2010. Later in 1983, Zimmer was cast in the role for which she is best known, the character of Reva Shayne on the television soap opera Guiding Light.
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Justin Deas is an American actor. He is known for his role as Tom Hughes #10 on As the World Turns and for his role as Buzz Cooper Sr. on Guiding Light. He has won the most Daytime Emmy Awards in acting categories. Deas is married to actress Margaret Colin , with whom he has two sons . Deas played... the character of Frank Achilles "Buzz" Cooper Sr. on Guiding Light, a role he played from 1993–2009, when the show was cancelled. He is a six time Daytime Emmy award winner . He shares the record for the most Daytime Emmy Awards won for acting by a performer with Erika Slezak of One Life to Live and Anthony Geary of "General Hospital". Deas's other roles have included Dr. Bucky Carter on Ryan's Hope, Tom Hughes on As the World Turns, and Keith Timmons on Santa Barbara.
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Cynthia Michele Watros is an American television actress, who also starred in films and on stage. She is known for her roles as Libby on the ABC TV series Lost, Kellie in The Drew Carey Show, Erin in Titus, and Annie Dutton in Guiding Light. She was born in Lake Orion, Michigan. Watros was cast as... Agnes Gooch in a Broadway musical theatre production of Auntie Mame. She also appeared as one of the Pigeon Sisters in The Odd Couple with Llama Productions. Watros initially became known for her role as Annie Dutton on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light from 1994 to 1998. Her character, a nurse, began as a heroine, but she gained notice and critical acclaim when her character's rivalry with Reva Shayne led her to become a scheming villainess. In 1998, Watros won a Daytime Emmy Award as "Outstanding Lead Actress" for her role on Guiding Light. In 1998, Watros briefly filled in for Jensen Buchanan as Victoria Hudson McKinnon on Another World while Buchanan was on maternity leave.
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Michael Joel Zaslow was an American actor. He was best known for his role as villain Roger Thorpe on CBS's Guiding Light, a role he played from 1971 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1997. Zaslow played Dick Hart on the CBS soap opera Search for Tomorrow and Dr. Peter Chernak on Love is a Many Splendored... Thing. He also played David Renaldi on ABC's One Life to Live from 1983 to 1986, and in 1998. Zaslow was also a writer for the NBC soap opera Another World. Zaslow guest starred on a number of other television shows and soap operas, including Barnaby Jones and Law & Order. In the episode "The Man Trap," the series' September 8, 1966 premiere of Star Trek, he played Crewman Darnell, the first Starship Enterprise crew member to be killed off. He also appeared as "Jordan" in the episode "I, Mudd". He also costarred in the 1977 feature film You Light Up My Life. Zaslow's Broadway theatre credits included Fiddler on the Roof, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Onward Victoria. Zaslow was also the godfather of film and television actor Christian Slater. However, it was for his work as Roger Thorpe on "Guiding Light" that Zaslow was always best known.
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Michael Joel Zaslow was an American actor. He was best known for his role as villain Roger Thorpe on CBS's Guiding Light, a role he played from 1971 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1997. Zaslow played Dick Hart on the CBS soap opera Search for Tomorrow and Dr. Peter Chernak on Love is a Many Splendored... Thing. He also played David Renaldi on ABC's One Life to Live from 1983 to 1986, and in 1998. Zaslow was also a writer for the NBC soap opera Another World. Zaslow guest starred on a number of other television shows and soap operas, including Barnaby Jones and Law & Order. In the episode "The Man Trap," the series' September 8, 1966 premiere of Star Trek, he played Crewman Darnell, the first Starship Enterprise crew member to be killed off. He also appeared as "Jordan" in the episode "I, Mudd". He also costarred in the 1977 feature film You Light Up My Life. Zaslow's Broadway theatre credits included Fiddler on the Roof, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Onward Victoria. Zaslow was also the godfather of film and television actor Christian Slater. However, it was for his work as Roger Thorpe on "Guiding Light" that Zaslow was always best known.
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