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• Landed her first acting job at age 10, playing an orphan in the Broadway musical Annie.
• Was 15 when she was cast as Lily Walsh on As the World Turns.
• Founded the annual Daytime Salutes St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital benefit in 1993.
• Was nominated for Daytime Emmys multiple times; she won  Outstanding Younger Actress in 1987 and Outstanding Lead Actress in 2001.
• Two of her pregnancies were chronicled on TLC's A Baby Story: the 2002 birth of her second son and the 2006 birth of her daughter.
• Was hired as a writer for the daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful in 2009.