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Marcy Rylan grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where she pursued her first love — dance — from an early age. "My mom put me in ballet shoes as soon as I could stand up, and I started doing commercial and print modeling when I was in junior high," she recalled to Soap Opera Weekly.
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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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Kirsten Storms knew she wanted to become an actress at age 5, when she'd accompany her sports director father, Mike, to work and pretended she was a weather girl. Workers at the station actually recorded her "forecasts" so that Storms could critique her performance.
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Kassie DePaiva's interest in the arts started when she was still in grade school. She first took to the stage when she was in the fifth grade. Throughout her childhood and teen years, she continued to sing in her church choir, participate in school plays and she was involved in class government. After graduating high school, DePaiva attended Indiana University and worked at Opryland in Nashville, TN.
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A horse enthusiast since childhood, the California-born Katherine Kelly Lang seemed more destined to become a professional equestrienne or veterinarian than an accomplished actress.
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Australian native Daniel Goddard created the role of Ethan "Cane" Ashby,
Jill's biological son who Katherine gave away as an infant, on YOUNG AND RESTLESS. Goddard was a year shy of completing a degree in finance when he decided to switch gears and go for a career in acting.
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Having had to deal with a firestorm of controversy when she came to the recast role of Carly Benson Quartermaine Corinthos in 2001, Tamara Braun has since become a force of nature all her own.
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Born Christopher Stack, Jr. in Chicago, IL, to parents Chris and Ann, Stack was raised in Indianapolis, where his acting career started with nativity plays and a sixth-grade production of H.M.S. Pinafore.
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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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Born in Grand Rapids, Mich., Kim Zimmer studied acting at nearby Hope College and continued her training at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
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Maura West was born on April 27 in Springfield, Mass. and raised in nearby Ludlow. She is the youngest of four children and has two brothers and one sister.
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