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Camryn Elizabeth Grimes is an American actress. Camryn is the daughter of Preston Lee and Heather Grimes. Camryn has six siblings, four sisters and two brothers. She is of Irish and German heritage. She was well known for her role as Cassie Newman on The Young and the Restless, which she started... portraying in 1997, winning a Daytime Emmy for her work in 2000, becoming the youngest winner to get a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series, at age 10, beating Kimberly McCullough who won at age 11. In May 2005, Grimes' character was written off the show when she died from injuries sustained in a car accident. This storyline earned the show a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team. Since departing the show, she has occasionally made guest appearances when a scene requires the presence of Cassie's spirit, in 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010. Camryn played the part of Holly in the 2001 movie Swordfish alongside Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, and John Travolta. She has guest-starred on Medium, AG, and ER. Her maternal uncle, Scott Grimes, was a regular on the latter.
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Christian Jules LeBlanc is an American actor. LeBlanc currently plays Michael Baldwin on The Young and the Restless. He first played the role from 1991 to 1993, and then resumed the role in 1997. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for the role six times, and won for Outstanding Lead Actor... award in 2005, 2007, and 2009. He previously starred on another soap opera, As the World Turns, playing Kirk McColl from June 2, 1983 until the summer of 1985. Christian appeared on As The World Turns again as his Y&R character Michael Baldwin on April 4 and 5th of 2005 when the character was crossed over to assist Jack and Carly Snyder in a custody suit. He also made a guest appearance on the Showtime late-night cable TV series Red Shoe Diaries, and reprised the role for a video movie. LeBlanc also appeared alongside The Young and the Restless co-star Tracey E. Bregman in the video for I Keep On Loving You by Reba McEntire in 2010. On May 20, 2005, June 15, 2007, and August 30, 2009, LeBlanc won the Daytime Emmy for "Outstanding Lead Actor" for his role on Y&R.
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Beth Maitland is American actress, best known for her portrayal of Traci Abbott Connolly in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1982 to 1996 and from 2001 to the present on a recurring basis. Born in Rapid City, South Dakota, Maitland and her family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona when... she was seven. By age thirteen she had already appeared in numerous community theatre and dinner theatre productions. She attended Arizona State University, majoring in music and theatre. Maitland moved to Los Angeles in 1978 and worked in night clubs while taking acting classes at the Los Angeles Film Industry Workshop. On television, Maitland has appeared in several made-for-television movies, and a supporting role in Mr. Holland's Opus. She is active in a Los Angeles theater company, and currently does voice over work, radio plays, and appears live with the Santa Clarita Playhouse. In addition, she co-founded http://AuditionsLA.com/ with fellow character actor Joel Brooks teaching the art of Acting Auditions. She is married and has a daughter. During Beth's free time, she and her husband raise and train horses.
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Jess Walton is an American actress, best known for her role as Jill Foster Abbott Fenmore on the American soap opera, The Young and the Restless. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she attended the prestigious Loretto Abbey in Toronto. Walton left home at the age of 17 and joined a Toronto theater... company. In 1969, aged 20, she moved to Hollywood. Walton briefly dated one of the managers for Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and for a time, she associated with them and other musicians, including Laura Nyro and Neil Young. In an interview, Walton recalled a memorable occasion where Nyro taught Walton and Mitchell how to belly dance. Walton says that one of the houses featured on Joni Mitchell's Ladies of the Canyon cover belonged to her. In the 1970s, after signing with Universal Studios, she guest-starred on Kojak as a high-priced call girl. She also appeared on The F.B.I., Cannon, and in the motorcycle movie The Peace Killers. In 1980, Walton entered rehabilitation after coming to terms with a drug and alcohol addiction.
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Peter Bergman is an American soap opera actor best known for his portrayals as Dr. Cliff Warner on All My Children, as well as Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless. The son of Walter Bergman, a United States Navy officer, he was born in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Bergman was married to actress... Christine Ebersole from 1976 to 1981. Since 1985, he has been married to Mariellen; with whom he has two children, Clare and Connor, who was once a five-star defensive end prospect at Harvard-Westlake School. The Bergmans currently live in California. Bergman originally auditioned for the All My Children casting director for the role of Dr. Jeff Martin. His first notable role was his portrayal of Dr. Cliff Warner on All My Children, which he played from 1979 to 1987 and again from 1988 to 1989. His character, Cliff, married Nina four times and divorced her three times. When the characters left the serial, their fourth marriage was intact. In a Vicks Formula 44 cough syrup advertising campaign in 1986, Bergman told the viewing audience, "I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV." Chris Robinson, who played Dr.
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Sharon Case is an American actress. She is known for her roles on daytime television soap operas. Her most well-known role has been on CBS Daytime Television's The Young and the Restless. She has portrayed the role of Sharon Newman since August 1994. Prior to her award-winning role on The Young... and the Restless, Case portrayed characters on the CBS daytime drama, As the World Turns and ABC's General Hospital. In 1994, she portrayed Anne Welles in the late-night, syndicated television soap opera, Valley of the Dolls. In addition to her daytime television work, Case has also appeared in several prime-time shows including Cheers, Beverly Hills, 90210, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Silk Stalkings, and Doogie Howser, M.D.. Case has performed in various films made for television. In 2004, she was cast in the HBO Production Breast Men with David Schwimmer. In June 2010, Case starred opposite David James Elliott in the romantic comedy Dad's Home for the Hallmark Channel. She also starred in the feature film Diplomatic Immunity, with Bruce Boxleitner and recently completed a starring role in the short film Repressions. She previously starred in the short Wentworth.
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David Scott Lago is an Cuban-American actor. He is best known for playing Raul Guittierez on The Young and the Restless from 1999 to 2004. He has also had a recurring role as Jeremy on 7th Heaven. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2004, before finally winning in... 2005, his last year on the soap. He had not prepared a speech, so he left the audience stunned by simply repeating a line from the film Catch Me If You Can about two mice falling into a bucket of cream. He also won a Young Artist Award in 2000 for his portrayal of Raul, having previously been nominated in 1999 for his role in the short-lived television series, Hollywood Safari. He has since been in a number of independent films and has also been executive producer to. In late October 2008, it was rumored that Lago was being considered for the role of Dante Falconeri, the son of Olivia Falconeri and Sonny Corinthos, on ABC's General Hospital. In May 2009, Lago briefly returned to The Young and the Restless in the role of Raul.
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Michelle Stafford is an American actress, best known for her role as Phyllis Summers on The Young and the Restless. Of her many film and television roles, she is known for her scheming persona as Phyllis Summers on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. First joining the cast in 1994, she was... introduced as an obsessed fangirl stalking rock star Danny Romalotti . Stafford left the show in 1997 at which time the role was taken over by Sandra Nelson until Stafford returned in 2000. Stafford's role as Phyllis earned her a Daytime Emmy award nomination for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Drama Series in 2003. She won the award also in 2004 and was again nominated in 2007 and 2008. From December 2006 to February 2007, Stafford played dual roles on Y&R, having taken over the role of Sheila Carter from Kimberlin Brown . In 2004, Stafford was a hockey correspondent for The Best Damn Sports Show Period. In 2007, Stafford appeared on Tyra Banks' talk show to help Tyra through "soap opera school." Michelle had a daughter, Natalia Scout Lee Stafford, via surrogate on Monday, December 21, 2009.
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Eric Braeden is a German-American film and television actor, best known for his role as Victor Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Hans Dietrich in the 1960s TV series The Rat Patrol, and as John Jacob Astor IV in the 1997 film Titanic. Braeden won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1998... for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role. Braeden was born Hans Jörg Gudegast in Bredenbek, Germany , where his father was once mayor. He immigrated to the USA in 1959. In the United States, Braeden attended The University of Montana in Missoula. Braeden accumulated many TV and film credits during his first two decades in America. In 1966 he guest-starred as Luftwaffe Major Bentz in the second season episode 28, "Day of Reckoning" of Twelve O'Clock High . He is most notably known for his role as the German Hauptmann Hans Dietrich on the TV series The Rat Patrol , as well as a starring role in the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project , in which he first took the stage name of Eric Braeden.
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Kristoff St. John is an American actor, best known for his role as Neil Winters on the daytime US drama The Young and the Restless. As a child, St. John portrayed a young Alex Haley in the ABC miniseries Roots: The Next Generations. He also made a small but notable appearance as Booker Brown on... the ABC sitcom Happy Days, as well as a boyfriend of Denise Huxtable on an early episode of The Cosby Show. In his first major role, he appeared as Charlie Richmond, Jr. on the CBS sitcom Charlie & Co., along with Flip Wilson, Gladys Knight, and Jaleel White. St. John's first major soap role was Adam Marshall on the NBC soap opera Generations, the first daytime drama to feature a core African American family from its inception. After Generations was cancelled in 1991, he originated the role of Neil Winters on The Young and the Restless, where he continues to appear to this day. A cast member for 20 years, no African American actor has appeared on Y&R more frequently than St. John. In 1992, he won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for his role in Y&R. Over the years, he has also won numerous NAACP Image Awards.
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