Famous Daytime Soap Opera Alumni

Ricky Martin

Rick Springfield

Nathan Fillion

Kate Mulgrew

Antonio Sabato Jr

Marisa Tomei Meg Ryan Parker Posey Sherry Stringfield Robin Wright Demi Moore

Please keep me out of this conversation.

Add Lohan and Amanda Seyfried to the list.

Susan Sarandon

Ted Danson

James Earl Jones

Kevin Bacon

Ray Liotta

Ted Shackleford

Kim Zimmer. The floats in the Macy's Parade always remind me of her.

Meg Ryan--she was known for being able to cry on cue.

Marcia Cross, before her nighttime soap days on Melrose Place and Desperate Housewives.

Kathleen Turner

Alec Baldwin

Christopher Reeve Ellen Burstyn Kathy Bates (shared a scene with KT on The Doctors) Ellen Barkin

Tommy Lee Jones

Judith LIght

Jameson Parker

Lee Horsley

Tom Berenger

David Selby

Jesse Lee Soffer (ATWT)

Billy Magnussen (ATWT)

Kim Delaney (AMC)

David Hasselhoff (YR)

Tom Selleck (YR)

Eva LaRue (AMC)

Eva Longoria (YR)

Jesse Spencer (Neighbours)

I was about to ask if former soap stars who come crawling back after big success were allowed...Kim Delaney has had a few primetime series and even a primetime Emmy...and now I hear she's on General Hospital playing Demi Moore.

Ryan Phillips (OLTL) Tammy Amerson (OLTL) Tom Berringer (OLTL)

Chadwick Boseman (All My Children. He was replaced by Michael B. Jordan)

Nathan Fillion (One Life to Live)

Justin Hartley (Passions / Days)

Ricky Martin (General Hospital)

Josh Duhamel (All My Children)

Amanda Seyfried (All My Children)

Kylie Minogue (Neighbours)

R14 Morgan Fairchild has crawled back to daytime several times: The City, a cameo on GH, Bold & the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives.

Holly Flax was on As the World Turns

Not exactly what you intended, but since you didn't specify:

Elizabeth Taylor

Carol Burnett

James Franco

Donald Trump

Jerry Springer

Wayne Gretzky

Meredith Vieira

Sheryl Underwood

Betty White

Jesse Ventura

Smokey Robinson

Also r19: Denise Richards, Joan Rivers, Wayne Brady, Crystal Gayle, Liberace

Lori Loughlin (EON)

Brad Pitt. Leo Dicaprio William H Macy Ellen Burstyn James Earl Jones Melissa Leo Kevin Kline Naomi Watts Susan Sarandon Morgan Freeman Alec Baldwin.

Christian Slater (RH)

Jensen Ackles as malebait Eric Brady on DOOL

Demi Moore

You bitches are slipping.

Kathleen Turner is fab at the 4:40 mark:

Susan Flannery

Victoria Wyndham

Donna Mills - Secret Storm, Love Is A Many Splendored thing, General Hospital

Yasmine Bleeth, Ryan's Hope, OLTL

Jason Biggs (ATWT)

Donna McKechnie (DS)

I always think of the big three from ATWT: Meg Ryan, Julianne Moore and Marisa Tomei.

Mr. Kelly Ripa

Steve Carell on All My Children

Not widely discussed, but Bradley Whitford has a two year recurring role on All My Children

ugh fucking kelly ripa.

Ms. Betty Buckley on Ryan's Hope!

Tommy Lee Jones (OLTL) Demi Moore (GH) Laurence Fishburne (OLTL)

The guy who played Wallingford on Another World

The kid who played Timmy on Passions

The woman who played Mrs. Wallace on Passions.

Bryan Cranston on whatever soap

[quote] Susan Flannery

[quote]Victoria Wyndham

I don’t think you understand the game.

James Earl Jones- GL

Cicely Tyson- GL

Billy Dee Williams- GL

Kevin Bacon- GL

Ruby Dee- GL

Jobeth Williams- GL

Angela Basset- GL

Nia Long- GL

Allison Janet- GL

Sarah Michelle Gellar- GL (first appeared on GL before AMC)

Victor Garner- GL

Michelle Forbes- GL

Hayden Pannetierre- GL

Brittany Snow- GL

Jesse Lee Sofer- GL (first appeared on GL)

Tammy Blanchard- GL

Paul Wesley- GL

Cynthia Watros- GL

Frances Fisher- GL

Melina Kanakaredes- GL

Calista Flockhart- GL

Taye Diggs- GL

Bradley Whitford-GL

Sherry Stringfield- GL

Rachel Miner- GL

Ian Ziering- GL

Paige Turco- GL

I only watched GL

that would be Allison Janney and Victor Garber. Autocorrect went wild

[quote]Jensen Ackles as malebait Eric Brady on DOOL

Did he Batman Voice his way through that role, too? Perhaps he even threw in pursing his lips, squinting his eyes and making Model Face at the camera? That seems to be his modus operandi in every role.

R15...Tammy Amerson?

Melissa Leo was great on AMC...I wish there were more clips of her time online. She was only on about a year or so.

Christopher Walken-GL

Conrad Bain Rodger Davis (Dark Shadows)

Mark Hamill. Christine Baranski.

Gordon Thomson

Frank Grillo- GL

Finn Wittrock

Don’t forget me!

The Lohler Report is doing a tribute to Michael Zaslow (ex-Roger, GUIDING LIGHT) on his you tube channel this coming Friday. Roger's real life daughter Martika will be on it. I always found Zaslow to be so handsome. I used to work nearby the studio where they filmed Guiding Light on E 44th Street in the late 80s and I'd see him around there from time to time. Any bisexual rumors about him?

Zas was straight as an arrow, but super gay-friendly.

AMC: Josh Duhamel, Lauren Holly, Amanda Seyfriend, Michael B. Jordan, Jonathan Bennett, Mia Sara, Amanda Bearse, Melissa Leo

OLTL: Tom Berenger, Tommy Lee Jones, Blair Underwood, Judith Light, Lawrence Fishburne

The Doctors: Paul Michael Glaser, James Noble, Terry Kiser, Jonathan Frakes

Michael Zaslow ‘s family was decimated. He and his wife Susan had two adopted Korean daughters.

He was fired from GUIDING LIFE after starting to show ALS symptoms (difficulty speaking) on screen, despite being on the show for decades. He died at 56. Six years later his daughter Helena died at 19, days after completing her first semester at college. Reports differ as to the cause. Susan died from cancer two years later. Daughter Marika survives.

Isn't Robin Wright one of those that does not take questions about her soap past?

Faith Ford and Kyra Sedgwick played the same character on Another World

I don't believe anyone has mentioned Matt Bomer. He spent a year on GL.

Wright eye rolls her time on Santa Barbara and I believe has even referred to it as silly or the like. She hated every second of being on a soap and isn't shy about saying it. At least she wasn't for many years

Y&R:

Shemar Moore

Paul Walker (RIP)

Howard McGillin

Eddie Cibrian (If D-List counts .. lol!)

Honorable Mention: Steven Ford

Eric Roberts started on daytime back in the 70s with a role on Another World.

Returned to daytime ca. 2010-11 with a role on Y&R.

Mrs. Alfred Steele

A couple more from Y&R:

Thomas Dekker

Penn Badgley

And coincidentally, they both played the same character (Phillip Chancellor IV) about seven years apart.

That other Joan ... Dame Joan Henrietta Collins.

James VanderBeek - ATWT

Natalie Zea - Passions

Barbara Garrick

Tovah Feldshuh

Chip Zien

Before WKRP, Gary Sandy had several stints on Daytime back in the early 70s.

He later took a role on Y&R in 2001.

Gil Gerard, The Doctors

Dana Delany, ATWT

A few more from The Doctors:

Armand Assante

Joanna Pettet

Robert LaTourneaux

Peggy Cass

Brooke Shields

Marg Helgenberger, Ryan's Hope

Jane Krakowski

"John Boy Walton," Richard Thomas, got his start on several daytime soaps in the 60s: EON, From These Roots, A Flame in the Wind, and ATWT, where he was one of the young actors who played "Tom Hughes". .. I think he was about 15/16 at the time.

The Secret Storm had Robert Loggia, Laurence Luckinbill, and Roy Scheider.

Luckinbill was also in the original cast of Where the Heart Is. Scheider did other soaps as well.

r61, see r26, and try to keep up.

Hal Holbrook, Patty Duke, and Lois Nettleton were alumni of "The Brighter Day."

Chris Sarandon and Christopher Walken

A few from Search for Tomorrow:

Lee Grant

Don Knotts

Dody Goodman

Joel Higgins

Natalie Schafer

Olympia Dukakis

And our very own George Maharis. It was the same year he started Route 66 (1960).

Raul Julia was on "Love of Life."

Jessica Walter, who just died, was also in "Love of Live" (1962-65).

A few others from "Love of Life" include: Warren Beatty, Peter Falk, Marsha Mason, Bert Convy, and Richard Coogan.

Dorothy Lyman, the original (the only, imho) Opal in AMC.

I'm SHOCKED nobody has mentioned Susan Lucci. When I think of Ford vehicles I still think of Ms. Erica.

From GH:

Emma "Holly" Samms,

Janine "Laura Templeton" Turner,

Finola "Anna Devane" Hughes.

R83 That's because this thread's focus doesn't appear to be on actors and actresses who are only (primarily) known for their daytime soap opera role.

Kathy Bates appeared on All My Children as Erica's cell mate. Does she cunt?

[quote]Kathy Bates appeared on All My Children as Erica's cell mate. Does she cunt?

Does she ever!

A lot of the casts of the big 4 prime time soaps had actors who came from daytime:

Dallas: Larry Hagman, Ken Kercheval, Audrey Landers, Dack Rambo, Timothy Patrick Murphy

Knots Landing: Joan Van Ark, Ted Shackelford, Donna Mills, James Houghton, Alec Baldwin, Larry Riley, Kathleen Noone

Dynasty: John James, Kathleen Beller, Michael Nader, Geoffrey Scott, Emma Samms

Falcon Crest: Susan Sullivan, Morgan Fairchild, Ana Alicia, David Selby, Kristian Alfonso