just the facts
Birthday: June 27
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Daytime History: Joshua Lewis, GUIDING LIGHT, 1981-84, 198691, 1993-2009; Prescott Harrell, GH, 1985; Kirk Cranston, SANTA BARBARA, 1986.
Newman's Own: The actor married Britt Helfer (ex-Lily, LOVING) on September 27, 1986, and they have two children, son Connor, born April 3, 1989 and daughter Kendal, born May 13, 1992.
Screen Time: "I'm watching PICARD and 1883, the YELLOWSTONE prequel."
The Play's The Thing: Among his favorite stage roles are George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ("especially doing it opposite Kim [Zimmer, ex-Reva, GL], with all of our personal history and all of our on-screen history together"), Don Quixote and Sweeney Todd. He also enjoyed playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, which he expects to be a one-time thing. "I don't know that anybody will cast a Norwegian Tevye ever again!"
Follow The LIGHT: Since arriving in L.A., he's caught up with a few fellow GL alums. "I saw Laura Wright [ex-Cassie; Carly, GH] at a gathering recently, and Frank Dicopoulos [ex-Frank] was there as well. And Kim and A.C. [Weary, her husband] and I had dinner about a month ago at their son's house."
Limited Run: His first gig postCovid was "about a minute of screen time" in Netflix's INVENTING ANNA.
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