Another World-Renowned: Then-and-Now Photos of the Much-Missed NBC Soap’s Stars

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Ricky Paull Goldin

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Nope, that’s not a newly found member of The Lost Boys on the left, that’s the heartthrob who played Dean Frame off and on from 1993-98. You’re just as likely to recognize him from his longer run on Guiding Light as Gus Aitoro.
Dahlia Salem

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You name the show — JAG, The King of Queens, House, ER, Castle, Grey’s Anatomy — and odds are, the actress who played Sofia Carlino has done it. (Don’t look those up; she really has done them all.)
Christopher Rich

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Following his 1981-85 stay in Bay City as the Cory family’s black sheep Sandy, the Texas native, once married to Nancy Frangione (Cecile), appeared in everything from Murphy Brown to Boston Legal.
Kyra Sedgwick

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Just 16 when she made her TV debut as hopeless romantic Julia Shearer, the better half of Kevin Bacon went on to win a Golden Globe for her portrayal of the title character in The Closer.
Faith Ford

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If you only know her as Murphy Brown’s Corky Sherwood, we understand; the ditsy part is iconic. But her portrayer did get her start as a recast of Sedgwick as Julia.
Diego Serrano

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From 1993-97, the hunk was the soap’s go-to eye candy as Tomas Rivera. Once he exited stage left, he began an impressive primetime career that’s included roles on 24, Blackout and Insecure.
Thomas Ian Griffith and Mary Page Keller

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Married since 1991, the actors who made Catlin Ewing and Sally Frame not just a couple but a super one have gone on to amass an enviable list of credits on their way to becoming screenwriters.
Christopher Knight

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There was a brief, awesome moment in the early 1980s when it looked like the erstwhile Peter Brady of Brady Bunch fame might become a serious actor. In that brief, awesome moment, he visited Another World as Denny Hobson.
Alicia Coppola

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The onetime Remote Control hostess followed her 1991-94 stint as supervixen Lorna Forbes with roles on primetime series ranging from JAG to Dawson’s Creek, from Shameless to Empire.
Ellen Wheeler

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The first actress to win an Emmy for her work as twins Marley and Vicky Hudson went on to score a second statuette for All My Children (where she played daytime’s first AIDS casualty) and executive-produce the last days of Guiding Light.
Anne Heche

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The sky was the limit for this Emmy winner after her stint as Marley and Vicky. She went on to star in everything from big-budget blockbusters (Six Days, Seven Nights) to her own series (Men in Trees).
Jensen Buchanan

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The One Life to Live vet (as Sarah Gordon) took over from Heche as Marley/Vicky, then popped up on As the World Turns (as ill-fated Vicky), General Hospital and The Young and the Restless.
Mark Pinter

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In the aftermath of the show’s cancellation, the soap vet who’d played shady Grant Harrison made his directorial debut and, sadly, split from Colleen Zenk (Barbara, As the World Turns), his wife of nearly a quarter of a century.
Kim Rhodes

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How do you top a role like that of troublemaker Cindy Harrison? For the native of Portland, Ore., with star turns on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (and its spinoff) and Supernatural, that’s how.
Paul Michael Valley

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After five years as Ryan Harrison, the fan favorite was killed off on screen, at which point the onetime Juilliard student returned to the stage in productions of All’s Well That Ends Well and 1776.
Jackée Harry

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The first-ever Black woman to win a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress, the 227 vet, once Bay City bad girl gone good Lily Mason, now plays Paulina Price on Days of Our Lives.
Michael Rodrick

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He’ll always be too-sexy-for-his-shirt Michael Sinclair to us, but the New Jersey native has passed through one series (Castle Rock) after another (Greenleaf) after another (Hawaii Five-0).
Judi Evans

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The Emmy winner, who left Days of Our Lives for Another World in 1991 to replace Cali Timmins as Paulina Cory, eventually returned to Salem, first as Adrienne Johnson, then Bonnie Lockhart.
Henry Simmons

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Holding out for a hero? Here he is — and as handsome as heck, too. As soon as Another World ceased to orbit in 1999, he took primetime by storm on NYPD Blue and Agents of Shield.
Amy Carlson

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Her exit from Another World after a highly successful 1993-98 run as law enforcer Josie Watts didn’t make nearly the headlines as did the Third Watch vet’s “death” on Blue Bloods in 2017.
Julian McMahon

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Following a run on Home and Away in his native Australia, the born head-turner brought his charisma to Bay City as Ian Rain. From there, he took Hollywood by storm in Nip/Tuck, FBI: Most Wanted and so on.
Linda Dano

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From 1982 until the end of Another World in 1999, the Emmy winner brought to bodacious life romance novelist Felicia Gallant. Afterwards, she toured ABC’s soaps as Rae Cummings and visited Days of Our Lives as Vivian Alamain.