Katherine Kelly Lang

Infobox actor
name = Katherine Kelly Lang


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birthname = Katherine Kelly Wegeman
birthdate = Birth date and age|1961|7|25imdb name|id=0485810]
birthplace = Hollywood, California
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parents = Olympic ski-jumper Keith R. Wegeman and actress Judith Lang [http://www.cbs.com/daytime/bb/about/bios/klang.shtml Lang's biography] from the CBS website]
notable role = Brooke Logan on "The Bold and the Beautiful"

Katherine Kelly Lang (born July 25, 1961) is an American actress, best known as Brooke Logan on the American daytime soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful".

Career

Lang's first credit was a movie called "Skatetown, U.S.A." (1979), with Scott Baio, Mark Hamill, and Patrick Swayze. That was followed by guest roles in various television series such as the short-lived "The Powers of Matthew Star" and "Masquerade" and the longer-running "Riptide", "Happy Days", "The Fall Guy", and HBO's "1st & Ten".

In 1987, she was offered the part of middle-class Brooke Logan on the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" ("B&B"), and has been an integral part of the program ever since. Her love affair with Ridge Forrester (played by Ronn Moss) has been a key story arc for over 20 years, and a love triangle among Brooke, Ridge, and Taylor (Hunter Tylo) stretched across an entire decade. The show's 5,000th episode included only four characters: Brooke, Ridge, Stephanie and Eric.cite news | title=A Beautiful Occasion | date=2007-02-13 | publisher= "Soap Opera Weekly"| pages = 30-31 ]

She appeared as her character, Brooke Logan on "B&B"'s sister show, "The Young and the Restless" in 1998. She interacted with Eric Braeden (Victor), Peter Bergman (Jack), and Eileen Davidson (Ashley). She previously appeared on "Y&R" as Gretchen in 1981. She returned to "Y&R" in July 2007 for a brief stint as Brooke.

Her work on "B&B" has been recognized with seven Soap Opera Digest Award nominations, beginning in 1991 and most recently in 2005.

She also appeared in the 1985 music video from the Country Music Hall of Fame super-group, Alabama "There's No Way". She was the love interest of Alabama lead singer Randy Owen.

She showed full frontal nudity in the 1996 B-movie, Subliminal Seduction.

Personal life

She was born Katherine Kelly Wegeman in Hollywood, California; she graduated from Beverly Hills High School. [http://www.cbs.com/daytime/the_bold_and_the_beautiful/bio/katherine_kelly_lang/bio.php CBS biography page] ] She is the daughter of Olympic ski-jumper Keith R. Wegeman and actress Judith Lang and the granddaughter of Oscar-winning cinematographer Charles Lang.

Lang has been married twice, the second time to manager Alex D'Andrea. D'Andrea represents such actors as Stephen Baldwin and works for Edmonds Entertainment. Lang is the mother of three children: Jeremy Skott Snider (born 1990), Julian Lang Snider (born 1992), Zoe Katrina D'Andrea (born 1997) and stepdaughter Danyelle Puschendorf D'Andrea (born 1991).Fact|date=July 2007cite news | title=Spotlight on Katherine Kelly Lang | date=2007-02-27 | publisher= "Soap Opera Weekly"| page = 16 ] Lang resides in the L.A. area and is neighbors with co-star John McCook.

Trivia

She shares an exact birth date, July 25, 1961, with her former "B&B" co-star Bobbie Eakes, who played Macy Alexander.

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