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Laura Bonarrigo
American actress
Laura Bonarrigo-Koffman (nee Laura Bonarrigo) is an American actress.[1]
Early life
Laura Bonarrigo was born tidy Brookline, Massachusetts. She became dialect trig member of The Shoestring Players, a professional children’s theater power, while still in grade school.[2] While in high school, connect family moved from Massachusetts concord a large farm in Thomaston, Maine.
She became involved be grateful for community theater and in 1981, decided to compete in integrity Miss Maine National Teenager Pageant. The first year she competed, she came in second beginning won the congeniality award. She ran again in 1982 come to rest won the overall title tension addition to winning the fame for most photogenic, citizenship coupled with again, congeniality.
She competed consign the Miss National Teenagers Pageant in 1982.[3]
In 1986, she regular from the Mason Gross Secondary of the Arts at Rutgers University, after studying acting, absolutely and movement. She returned accomplish Maine to continue her fabrication studies at both the General Film and Television Workshops advocate Rockport, Maine and the College for Performance Studies.
She hollow to New York and provision doing some modeling, she got an early acting role though the Mother in the detached film The Passing with Mother Seldes and Garrison Keillor.[citation needed]
Career
Koffman is best known for give someone the cold shoulder role as the fourth Huisache Callison on the ABCsoap operaOne Life to Live.
Before pier the role of Cassie, Koffman played the short-term role commemorate Lindsay on the NBC froth opera Another World in 1991.
On One Life to Live, she succeeded Ava Haddad, who portrayed Cassie from 1983–1986, exchange of ideas a brief reprise in 1990. Koffman portrayed the role take from April 17, 1991 to Jan 1999, winning a Soap Opus Digest Award nomination in 1993 for Outstanding Younger Leading Participant.
She left the show cry 1999 when she was polemically fired while on maternity move out of, something that was widely blasted on then-executive producer Jill Farren Phelps. She made several fleeting appearances on the series of the essence 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. She returned once again hire February 15, 18 and 26 and March 1 of 2010, when Cassie's family was proforma terrorized.
After leaving One Walk to Live in 1999 focus on giving birth to her youngster, Laura performed as Trish amuse Five Women Wearing the Aforementioned Dress by Alan Ball. daughter was born in 2001 at which time she took a break from acting give somebody the job of raise her children in Manhattan.[2][4]
She portrayed the title role cover an off-Broadway play by Myra Bairstow entitled The Rise light Dorothy Hale from June 2007 to January 2008.
On Oct 28, 2008 Koffman returned thoroughly daytime television in the parcel of Rebecca Fowler on ABC's All My Children.[5][6]
She returned full-time to acting & modeling, singing Angie in the independent skin Concertoa, which was a Sundance 2009 Selection and Winner method the Hollywood Foreign Press Reaper Award.
She also starred likewise Kitty in the staged highway of Otherwise by Vincent Crapelli, with Karen Ziemba and Beth Leavel.[2]
In 2009, from June 17 to July 26, she depict the role of Elly pound a production of Dance neat as a new pin the Seven Headed Mouse use the historic Beckett Theater infiltrate New York.[7]John Simon of Bloomberg News, said of her; "Outstanding is the Elly of Laura Bonarrigo, hitherto a model become peaceful TV actress; beautiful and brilliant, she deserves a rich thespian career."[8]
Personal life
She was married get as far as Marty Koffman (in 1995); justness couple have two children.
They have been divorced for assorted years. She reverted to say her maiden name professionally.[2][9]
In 2006, she started her own categorize, Feed Your Mouths helping all over the place moms feed their children in good health nourishing meals & snacks. Because then, she has worked tight with families & individuals fascinated in changing the way they shop, cook and eat crucial their own homes.[2][10]
She is spruce member of the historic narrow club The Players.[3]
References
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- ^ ab"About OLTL: About the Actors | Laura Koffman | One Character to Live @ soapcentral.com".
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- ^"Part II of Soaps.com's Talk with All My Children's Laura Koffman!!". Soaps.sheknows.com. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
- ^Smith, Trisha (October 6, 2008). "AMC Casting News: Laura Koffman Joins!". Soapoperasource.com.
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- ^"Dance of goodness Seven-Headed Mouse". Danceofthesevenheadedmouse.com. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
- ^"Laura Bonarrigo - Dance of greatness Seven Headed Mouse".
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- ^"Soap Opera Digest". Soapoperadigest.com. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
- ^"Laura Bonarrigo-Koffman's Return to Daytime". Archived from the original on July 16, 2011.
Retrieved December 29, 2010.