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Kimberly McCullough

Born Kimberly Anne McCullough
March 5, 1978 (1978-03-05) (age 30)
Bellflower, California, U.S.

Kimberly Anne McCullough[1] (born March 5, 1978) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, dancer, and director. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Bellflower is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is a suburb of Los Angeles. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) She is best known for her longterm role as Robin Scorpio on the soap opera General Hospital, a role which she originated at the age of 7, playing the character from 1985-1996. Dr Robin Scorpio (born Soltini) is a Fictional character on the ABC Soap opera General Hospital and a main Protaganist A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. General Hospital (commonly abbreviated GH) is an American Soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network during the She has continued to play the character off and on since then, with stints from 1997-1998, in 2000, 2004, and then she started to play a doctor in the show on October 12, 2005, a role which she has continued to play through to the present. She has also played the character in one episode of the GH spinoff Port Charles, and in a few episodes of All My Children. Port Charles is a daytime Soap opera which aired on ABC from June 2 1997 to October 3 2003. All My Children ( AMC) is a popular American Soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC In Summer 2007, again as Robin, she played one of the leads in the primetime GH spinoff, General Hospital: Night Shift. General Hospital Night Shift is an American Prime time serial that first aired on SOAPnet for a 13-episode run from July 12 2007 to October

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Biography

Early life

McCullough was born in Bellflower, California. Bellflower is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is a suburb of Los Angeles. Her mother is a dance teacher, who took the baby with her to rehearsals, and got her involved with acting early. McCullough's first appearance was as a 7-month-old baby in a diaper commercial, co-starring with actress Juliet Mills. "Nappy" redirects here For other uses see Nappy (disambiguation and Diaper (disambiguation. Juliet Maryon Mills, (born 21 November 1941) is an English Character actress, born to the famous theater family of actor Sir John Mills She started doing gymnastics at the age of 4, and performed as part of a group called the "Gym Dandies. Gymnastics is a Sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength agility and coordination " At the age of 6, she auditioned for legendary choreographer Debbie Allen. Deborrah Kaye “Debbie” Allen (b January 16, 1950) is an American Actress, Choreographer, Television director, Allen was initially displeased with having a child at the audition, but was eventually won over, and cast McCullough in the television series Fame. McCullough followed this up with a dancing part in the Influential Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

Career

McCullough then decided that instead of just dancing, she also wanted to try her hand at acting. Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo is the Sequel to the 1984 Breakdancing Film Breakin'. Her first audition was for a part on Webster, which she didn't get. Webster is an American sitcom series that premiered on ABC on September 16, 1983, and ran on that network until Her next audition, in 1985 at the age of 7, was for General Hospital. The producers made her audition 12 times but eventually gave her the part. She played Robin Scorpio, the daughter of the popular soap couple of Robert Scorpio (Tristan Rogers) and Anna Devane (dancer Finola Hughes). Dr Robin Scorpio (born Soltini) is a Fictional character on the ABC Soap opera General Hospital and a main Protaganist Robert Xavier Scorpio is a Fictional character on the popular ABC Soap opera General Hospital. Tristan Rogers (born June 3 1946 in Melbourne Australia) is an Australian - American Actor. Anna Devane (previously Scorpio, Lavery, and Hayward) is a Fictional character on the ABC soap operas General Hospital Finola Hughes (born 29 October, 1960 in London) is an English actress and Author of Irish and Italian Her role was a success,[2] and in 1989, at the age of 11, McCullough won her first Daytime Emmy Award, for "Outstanding Juvenile Female in a Drama Series". The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York -based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles -based Academy She played the character off and on for several years. One of her most memorable storylines began in 1995, when her teenaged character contracted HIV after having unprotected sex with her boyfriend Stone, who was unknowingly infected with AIDS, and later died from the disease. Human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) is a Lentivirus (a member of the Retrovirus family that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome She won a second Daytime Emmy for this storyline, for "Outstanding Younger Leading Actress in a Drama Series" in 1996, and was nominated for each of these awards the following year.

She took a break from playing the character when she went off to college, to study film directing at New York University. New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City. In General Hospital, Robin Scorpio was also written out for the same reason, except the character was attending Yale University to study medicine. McCullough continued playing the character during her university breaks.

In 1998, she left the show to pursue a different career of acting and directing, and joined the crew of Once and Again. Once and Again is an American television series that initially aired on ABC from 1999 to 2002 She also wrote and directed the mockumentary Lil Star about girls in childhood beauty pageants, a story which allowed McCullough to draw on her own experiences. Mockumentary (also known as a pseudo-documentary) a Portmanteau of Mock and documentary, is a film and TV Genre, or a single work " Lil Star " is the second single (final in Europe) from Kelis ' Grammy Award -nominated fourth studio album Kelis Was She wasn't making a living by directing though, and so fell back on acting to pay the bills to support her aspirations as a director, and returned to General Hospital in October 2005, this time as a grown-up Dr. Robin Scorpio.

In other work, McCullough has danced in other television appearances such as Solid Gold and The People's Choice Awards. Solid Gold is an American syndicated Television series which aired from 1980 to 1988 usually on Saturday in the early evening time slot Note This article does not pertain to the People's Choice Awards presented at the British Comedy Awards show in the United Kingdom, or to an awards show She sang backup for the 1989 song "Toy Soldiers" by Martika, and has also had recurring guest-star roles on The Shield. The Shield is an American Police - Drama Television series shown on FX Networks in the U She was also the star of the TV movie Dying to Dance, in which she played opposite Rick Springfield, another General Hospital actor. Rick Springfield (born Richard Lewis Springthorpe on August 23 1949 in Sydney) is an Australian American Songwriter


Television

Awards

All of McCullough's awards and nominations have been for her role as Robin Scorpio on General Hospital. Joan of Arcadia is an American Television Fantasy / Family Drama, which originally aired on Fridays 8-9 p The Stones is a short lived sitcom television series that starred Robert Klein, Judith Light, Lindsay Sloane and Jay Baruchel as the The Shield is an American Police - Drama Television series shown on FX Networks in the U Firefly is an American Science fiction Television series created by writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Once and Again is an American television series that initially aired on ABC from 1999 to 2002 All My Children ( AMC) is a popular American Soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC Port Charles is a daytime Soap opera which aired on ABC from June 2 1997 to October 3 2003. General Hospital (commonly abbreviated GH) is an American Soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network during the General Hospital Night Shift is an American Prime time serial that first aired on SOAPnet for a 13-episode run from July 12 2007 to October

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References

  1. ^ Kim Mccullough Biography (1978-)
  2. ^ Soapography, aired June 16, 2007, "Kimberly McCullough and Rick Springfield"

External links

The Soap Opera Digest Awards are an award show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest. The Young Artist Awards are presented yearly by the Young Artist Foundation Soapography was a tv show on SOAPnet about soap actors' lives and what soap they starred in TVcom is a website owned by CNET Networks. The service was launched on June 1 2005 and replaced the popular TV Tome website
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