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CATHERINE HICKLAND

LINDSAY RAPPAPORT (1998 - PRESENT)

 

Catherine Hickland plays conniving Lindsay Rappaport; she joined One Life to Live in May, 1998.  Catherine was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is very familiar to television audiences.  She was the original stewardess in an airline "Fly Me" advertising campaign. 

Before she got her big break in acting, one of her earliest jobs was as a Hollywood answering service woman.  One of her biggest assignments was telling Sharon Gless she had won the role of Christine Cagney on the series Cagney and Lacey. 

 Since then, she has been on daytime television as Tess Wilder on Loving and The City, acted in the dual role of Julie Clegg and Jenny Diamond on Capitol, played Dr. Courtney Marshall on Texas and Brooke Logan Forrester on the Bold and the Beautiful.  Hickland has also guest-starred on numerous primetime series, such as Knight Rider (with her former husband David Hasselhoff), Eight Is Enough, Airwolf and Vega$, and television movies including The Seeding of Sara Burns and To Race the Wind.  Catherine has appeared in feature film including Witch Craft, War Zone Zero, Taxi Killer, where she demonstrates her karate skills.  Her first movie was The Last Married Couple in America playing George Segal’s young girlfriend and Millions with Billy Zane.  

Shortly after the cancellation of Capitol, Catherine moved to Rome and lived there for two years, happily immersing herself in a new language and a new culture.  She made several Italian films while she was there.  After her return to the United States, she met her husband, "All My Children" (1970) star Michael E. Knight (who plays Tad Martin). They were married in June 1992. In 1995, Catherine starred as "Fantine" in Les Misérables on Broadway.  She performed with the symphony of Lyon on New Year's Eve, 1995, in Lyon, France. Earlier this year, Catherine staged two sold-out performances of her cabaret, Boys on the Side. Catherine and Michael starred opposite one another on stage in the play, Run for Your Wife, in Los Angeles. They now live in Manhattan with their dog and six cats.