One Life to Live

Susan Haskell is a Canadian actress. She portrays the role of Dr. Margaret "Marty" Saybrooke Thornhart, bad-girl-turned-good-turned-bad-again, on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. She graduated from The American Academy of Arts in 1991. Haskell also appeared on Port Charles in 2001 as Granya... Thornhart, opposite her former One Life to Live love interest , Thorsten Kaye, with whom she shares two daughters McKenna and Marlowe Marann . Haskell portrayed this role from December 1991 until August 1997, with two brief visits in January 2004 and January 2005. She returned again for an extended stay in mid-2008, first appearing onscreen on June 11, 2008. Haskell won two Daytime Emmy Awards, in 1994 for Outstanding Supporting Actress for the role in 1994, and in 2009 for Outstanding Lead Actress. At the time of Haskell's 2008 return, Marty was called "one of those tentpole characters that everyone who has watched One Life to Live at some point remembers." It was noted that the 1993 story of the character's gang rape led by Todd Manning "is one of the show's most remembered and impactful.
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Robin Strasser is an American actress. Strasser is best known for her Daytime Emmy Award-winning portrayal of Dr. Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live. Strasser stepped into the role in March 1979, first appearing Friday, April 13, 1979 and left in 1987, returning from... February 1993 to February 2000. She reprised the role again from 2003 to August 25, 2011. Strasser also originated the role of Rachel Davis Matthews on the NBC soap opera Another World , and played Dr. Christina Karras Martin on ABC's All My Children from 1976 to April 1979. From 2000 to 2002, she appeared as 300-year-old witch Hecuba on NBC's Passions. Strasser's birth name is Robin Victory in Europe Strasser, as she was born the day Germany surrendered in World War II. She was raised in the New York City borough of Brooklyn by Martin and Anne Strasser. After graduating from the High School of Performing Arts, on full scholarship, she attended the Yale University School of Drama. She began acting in the early 1960s.
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Robert Sosebee Woods is an American actor best known for playing Bo Buchanan on the ABC soap One Life to Live, a role for which he won a 1983 Daytime Emmy Award for Lead Actor. In 1966 Woods graduated from Lakewood High School in Lakewood, California, where he served as senior class president. He... later joined the U.S. Armed Forces and fought in the Vietnam War. Woods ultimately graduated from California State University, Long Beach where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Woods began portraying Bo Buchanan — a Vietnam War veteran — on the ABC soap One Life to Live in 1979, winning a Daytime Emmy Award for Lead Actor in 1983. He left the series in 1986 and returned 1988, and continues in the role today. Woods also earned Daytime Emmy nominations in 1986, 1993, 1994, 1999, and 2000, multiple Soap Opera Digest Award nominations, and four MVP trophies from Soap Opera Update. Woods has also appeared on television series such as Roseanne, and the NBC soap opera, Days of our Lives. He appeared in eight episodes of The Waltons, four credited as "Robert Merritt Woods" and four as "Christopher Woods.
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Al Freeman, Jr., is an American actor and director. Freeman has made appearances in many films, such as My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, and television series such as The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Edge of Night. He is mostly recognized for... his portrayal of Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role he played from 1972 through 1985, with recurring roles in 1988 and 2000. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for that role, the first African-American actor to be so honored. He left the show briefly to appear in the network's controversial sitcom Hot L Baltimore. During that period, "Ed" was played by another actor, Arthur Pendleton. He was also a director of One Life to Live, and was one of the first, if not the first, African-Americans to direct a soap opera. After leaving One Life to Live, Freeman appeared in the motion picture Down in the Delta. His Broadway theatre credits include Look to the Lilies, Blues for Mister Charlie, and Medea.
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Roger Howarth is an American actor. He portrays character Todd Manning on the daytime drama General Hospital, which became an iconic fixture in the genre's medium, and earned Howarth a Daytime Emmy Award. He left the series in 2003, but returned on May 13, 2011. In addition to his work on One Life... to Live, Howarth has guest starred in television shows such as Prey and Dawson's Creek, and starred on the daytime drama As the World Turns in the role of Paul Ryan. Roger Howarth was born in Westchester County, New York. His father was involved in theater and wrote plays. Exposed to the arts at an early age, Howarth performed in the play The Grand Duke at the age of seven. He was active in his high school drama department, and performed in numerous plays at school. He played soccer from the time he was a small child up until 18 and 19 years of age. He took the opportunity to play in other countries with the Puma Shoes U.S. National Soccer Team. In an interview, when asked if he was a professional soccer player, Howarth answered, "No! Heavens no.
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Hillary Bailey Smith is an American actress. Born as Hillary Bailey, Smith attended Dana Hall School, Pine Manor College and Sarah Lawrence College. At Sarah Lawrence as a senior, she performed in off Broadway and Broadway productions, including The Heidi Chronicles. Smith began her on-screen... career in the genre of daytime drama, starring in the role of Kit McCormick on The Doctors , and one year later, taking over the role of Margo Montgomery Hughes on As the World Turns, a role she would play from 1983 to 1990. She married Philip Webster Smith III in 1983. They have two children, a daughter, Courtney and a son, Philip . After taking maternity leave from acting after the birth in 1988 to her son, Smith returned to daytime television, originating the role of Llanview District Attorney Nora Hanen Buchanan on ABC's One Life to Live , a character she has played since 1992. Almost immediately after her debut, Smith, in the role of Nora, became a centerpiece of the show, particularly for her involvement in the OLTL multiple-Emmy Award winning Marty Saybrooke rape trial storyline.
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Judith Ellen Light is an American actress. Her television roles include Karen Wolek on the soap opera One Life to Live, Angela Bower on the sitcom Who's the Boss?, Claire Meade on ABC's TV series Ugly Betty and Judge Elizabeth "Liz" Donnelly on Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Light was born... in Trenton, New Jersey, the daughter of Pearl Sue , a model, and Sidney Light, an accountant. Light graduated from high school in 1966 at St. Mary's Hall-Doane Academy, now Doane Academy, in Burlington, New Jersey. She graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a degree in drama. She recalled the university as "rigorous" and "amazing". Afterwards, she started out on stage, making her professional debut in Richard III at the California Shakespeare Festival in 1970, before moving to Broadway to star in A Doll's House in 1975. She also starred in the 1976 Broadway play Herzl. Light also acted for such theatre companies as the Milwaukee Repertory Theater and the Seattle Repertory Theatre. In the late 1970s, Light went through a real crisis after a period of not landing any parts.
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