- 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-jumperKeith R. Wegeman and actressJudith Lang [http://www.cbs.com/daytime/bb/about/bios/klang.shtml Lang's biography] from theCBS website]
notable role =Brooke Logan on "The Bold and the Beautiful "Katherine Kelly Lang (born
July 25 ,1961 ) is an American actress, best known asBrooke Logan on the American daytimesoap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful ".Career
Lang's first credit was a movie called "
Skatetown, U.S.A. " (1979), withScott Baio ,Mark Hamill , andPatrick 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 withRidge Forrester (played byRonn Moss ) has been a keystory 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 withEric Braeden (Victor),Peter Bergman (Jack), andEileen 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 fromBeverly 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-jumperKeith R. Wegeman and actressJudith Lang and the granddaughter of Oscar-winning cinematographerCharles 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-starJohn McCook .Trivia
She shares an exact birth date, July 25, 1961, with her former "B&B" co-star
Bobbie Eakes , who playedMacy Alexander .References
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