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AMC Soap Star Stats
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Amanda Baker was raised in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., where her parents, Dr. F. Keels Baker and Laura Baker, and sister Candy Lowman still reside. She caught the acting bug when she first started to perform in school plays and musicals and participated in Wando School's Show Choir.
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The middle of three sisters (one is seven years younger; the other is two years older), Ambyr Childers grew up playing sports ("We were never the ballet-type girls or the girls who would dress up with princess outfits; we were very athletic") and singing.
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Born in Houston, TX, Leven Rambin studied at the Houston School of Film and Theatre and St. Francis Episcopal Day School before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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Melissa Claire Egan grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., with her mother, father and two brothers. She began auditioning for small roles and commercials at a young age, but had no dreams of being a child star.
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The youngest in a family of eight children, Rebecca Budig joined AMC in 1999 after a stint as good girl Michelle Bauer on GL.
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Susan Lucci created the role of the sexy, sassy and savvy Erica Kane on ALL MY CHILDREN in 1970. Since her debut, Lucci has had an award-winning career that has earned her international renown and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with success in both daytime and prime time.
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Alicia Minshew was raised in Florida by parents Jim and Lenore, with her three sisters. Despite her parents' divorce, the family remains very close-knit. Minshew knew she wanted to act from an early age. "I was always putting on shows for my family," she recalls. She began doing some serious acting in high school, which led her to receive a musical theatre scholarship to Indian River College.
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Eden Riegel started acting at age 7 after seeing her brother, Sam, appearing in Les Misérables. She landed a role in the musical's touring production, and subsequently moved on to the Broadway incarnation of the long-running show.
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Jacob Young was born in 1979 to now-divorced parents Michael and Rhonda, joining siblings Michael, Tiffany and Charity. After spending his childhood in both Washington and Oregon. He caught the acting bug doing high-school musicals and landed the part of Rick on BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL.
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John James, whose mother was a film editor and whose father, Herb Oscar Anderson, is a seminal and legendary rock and roll DJ, was raised in Connecticut and got into acting at the kind urging of a beloved high school teacher.
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Aiden Turner was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, and grew up about 25 miles north of London. A love of cooking dinner and desserts led him to attend culinary school.
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The youngest of five children born to country music performers Shari and Hank Penny (Hank passed away in 1992), Sydney Penny was born in Nashville and brought up outside of L.A. She made her stage debut at the age of 3, spontaneously performing in the middle of her father's act.
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Jeff Branson is not one of those actors who was born with a burning desire to perform. Rather, he stumbled into what would become his profession when he got a tip that the acting teacher at his high school didn't have a problem with students sleeping through class.
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Michael E. Knight was born in Princeton, N.J. but spent his early years on the West Coast in Ojai and San Francisco. He grew up as the middle child of three sons attending a boys' preparatory school where his father was a faculty member.
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This Chicago native, the daughter of a postal worker and police officer, was described by O, The Oprah Magazine as one of the "Ten Women in America Who Will Take Your Breath Away in 2004." The founder of the popular workshop series "The Actorpreneur Attitude," Pinkins is in the process of completing a self-help book based on her personal-growth philosophies.
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Jill Larson started her acting career at the age of 11, when she began a long affiliation with the esteemed Minnesota Children’s Theater Company. After leaving the company, she moved to Paris, where she worked as an au pair, but was soon enmeshed in a thriving modeling career. She later settled in New York and enrolled at Hunter College, earning a degree in communication.
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Walt Willey landed his first contract with AMC as Jackson in 1987 after deciding at the age of 30 to pursue his dream of a show business career.
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David Canary was born in Elwood, Ind., and raised in Massillon, Ohio. He attended the University of Cincinnati on a football scholarship and graduated as a music major with a specialization in voice as part of a unique program that included study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
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Raised in Warner Robins, GA, Bobbie Eakes originally moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music, but before long, she got her first break in the acting biz: a role on LAVERNE & SHIRLEY. She didn't give up on singing, though, and became a member of the band Big Trouble, which performed as the house band on the syndicated series COMEDY BREAK.
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An avid sports fan (his favorite teams are the Detroit Red Wings for hockey and the Miami Dolphins for football), Thorsten Kaye received his bachelor's degree in fine arts at United States International University in San Diego, CA, before getting his master's in theater at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI.
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Canadian-born Cameron Mathison, the second of two sons born to Bill and Loretta, graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a degree in civil engineering.
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Kate Collins was born in Boston, MA to astronaut Michael Collins and Patricia M. Finnegan. She graduated from Northwestern University and went on to star in many theatrical performances. At age twenty-four Collins got married, but the pairing fizzled out three years later just prior to her Broadway debut in Doubles.
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Kelli Giddish began acting at an early age in her hometown of Cummings, Georgia. She was involved in the theater department of her high school and graduated with a degree in performance arts from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana.
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Sabine Singh was born in New York to the daughter of an Indian Maharaja father and an Austrian beauty queen mother. As a child, she enjoyed both dancing and acting.
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Alexa Havins joined the cast of ALL MY CHILDREN in October of 2003 when the feisty Babe Carey made her Pine Valley entrance. Havins was born in New Mexico but grew up in Arizona and is extremely close with her family.
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Born and bred in Nebraska, where he was raised by his now-deceased maternal grandmother, Justin Bruening claims that as a child, he was "the nerdiest, geekiest kid ever." He studied biochemistry in college, but found that life in a lab wasn't for him ("I would entertain everyone by setting my lab partner on fire," he jokes), so he moved to sunny California after graduation to live with his aunt and uncle.
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Julia Barr joined AMC in 1976 as the rebellious teen-ager Brooke English. A Hoosier by birth, Barr lives in New Jersey with her husband.
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A native of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Connie Fletcher got her start as a performer in the living room of her childhood home. "I would subject my parents to hours and hours of me dancing around to Paula Abdul," she laughs.
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John Callahan admits to a handful of great loves — his wife, his daughter, his work and golf, golf and more golf. The Brooklyn born and Long Island bred 6-footer first thought about a career as a lawyer, and paid for his college tuition by working as a bartender and as nightclub managers.
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Eva La Rue was raised in Norco, CA by her Puerto Rican-French father and her Dutch mother. From an early age, she was singing and dancing, which led to work in commercials (including spots for Del Monte green beans and Fanta Orange). She was accepted to UCLA, but decided instead to pursue an acting career full-time.
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Marc Menard, the second of three children born to a French-speaking father and Irish-Canadian mother, was raised in Montreal and discovered as a model while he was still in college. For years, he was a fixture on the runways in Milan, Paris and New York, and did print work for major publications like Vogue and Esquire.
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