Kristian Alfonso

Infobox actor
name = Kristian Alfonso


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birthname = Kristian-Joy Alfonso
birthdate = birth date and age|1964|9|5
location = Brockton, Massachusetts, USA
website = http://www.kristianonline.com/

Kristian-Joy Alfonso (born September 5, 1964 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American soap opera actress.

She began her career as a figure skater and gold medal champion at the Junior Olympics. At the age of 13, a devastating tobogganing accident ended her skating career and Kristian began modeling. By the time she was 15 she had appeared on the cover of over 30 magazines, including "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar". She was first seen on TV, playing opposite Rock Hudson in the TV movie "The Starmaker" in 1981. Her career took off in April 1983 when she started playing Hope Williams on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives". During that time, her character fell in love with, and married, ruggedly handsome Bo Brady (Peter Reckell).

Alfonso left the show in April 1987 for a two-year stint on the night time soap opera "Falcon Crest" as Pilar Ortega for its last two seasons. She returned to "Days" briefly from April to July 1990; this return culminated in the entire town of Salem believing that Hope had died.

She returned to the show for a third time in May 1994 as "Gina," an amnesiac who looked a lot like Hope. She ended up being Hope, but not before a drawn-out storyline involving evil Stefano DiMera (Joseph Mascolo) brainwashing Hope into believing she was Princess Gina Von Amberg.

She also played in Season 6 of "Friends" in an episode titled "The One That Could Have Been, Part 1" as Hope Brady from "Days of Our Lives".

Alfonso has been married twice and is the mother to two sons, Gino William (born 1990) and Jack (born 2002), in addition to her stepson Spartan.

She recently re-signed with "Days" for two more years.

Other credits

Kristian's other film and television credits include "Joshua Tree", "MacGyver", "Whatever Happened to Bobby Earl", "Blindfold Acts of Obsession", "Day of Redemption", "Full House", "Burke's Law", "Murder, She Wrote", "Melrose Place", "Baywatch", "Amazing Stories (TV series)", "Who's The Boss?" and "Secret Lives".

ee also

*"Days of our Lives"
*Bo and Hope Brady
*Supercouple

External links

* [http://www.kristianonline.com/bio/index.html Official web site]
*imdb name | id=0019172 | name=Kristian Alfonso

Persondata
NAME= Alfonso, Kristian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Alfonso, Kristian-Joy
SHORT DESCRIPTION=American soap opera actress
DATE OF BIRTH= September 5, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH= Brockton, Massachusetts, United States
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=