Elizabeth Hendrickson

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Elizabeth Hendrickson (born July 3, 1979) is an American actress. Her first big break came when she was cast as character Frankie Stone on the daytime drama "All My Children". Her equally popular role of Maggie Stone, the character's identical twin, launched the character into iconic status as one half of supercouple Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone.cite news|title=BAM Campaign|publisher="Soap Opera Digest""AMC"ers have also sent e-mails to the execs expressing their desire to see Bianca and Maggie together again — for good! "‘BAM’ fans continue to do battle for their couple by recruiting new ‘BAM’ fans around the world," they write. Now if only ABC/AMC would bring Liz [Hendrickson, Maggie] back full time, just as they have with Eden [Riegel, Bianca] , to feed this growing hunger for the supercouple of "AMC".]

Since then, the actress has guest starred in several primetime shows. She recently joined the cast of "The Young and the Restless" as fashion vixen Chloe Mitchell.

Early life

Elizabeth Hendrickson was born in New York City. Her family later moved to Northport, Long Island, and maintained a home there.cite news| title=About the Actors: Elizabeth Hendrickson|publisher=soapcentral.com|accessdate=2008-05-14|url=http://www.soapcentral.com/yr/theactors/hendrickson_elizabeth.php] At an early age, Hendrickson showed an interest in the performing arts. "Artistic people have always surrounded me," she stated in an Q&A interview, citing her actor/artist family as her inspiration for wanting to become an actress. "Their talent and love for the arts continue to inspire me and always will."cite news| title=Q&A with Elizabeth #1 (November 30, 2001)|publisher=elizabeth-hendrickson.net|accessdate=2008-01-22|url= http://www.elizabeth-hendrickson.net/qanda.html] By age 5, Hendrickson was tap dancing on tabletops at family weddings. As she aged, her love for performing deepened. cquote|My first play was in fourth grade, "Johnny Appleseed". By the time I was in sixth grade, I knew that I wanted to be an actress. My dream has always been to be on Broadway. In eighth grade, I was one of the six finalists for New York for "The Mickey Mouse Club". But I goofed on my screen test. It was my first professional audition. I heard the advertisement on the radio and I dragged my mother there. My favorite performance was my role in "The Music Man" my senior year in High School. I played Minnie. I had so much fun playing the little pipsqueak, it was so me!

Hendrickson studied musical theatre at Syracuse University for two years before returning to New York. She transferred to Fordham College in her sophomore year.

She auditioned for the roles of Bianca Montgomery, Rain Wilkins and Pine Valley High cheerleader Mindy on the daytime drama "All My Children", but others were cast in the parts. She tried out as "Guiding Light" character Michelle Bauer Santos, a role that eventually went to actress Rebecca Budig.

Career

"All My Children"

In 2001, when "All My Children" head writer Richard Culliton wanted to set up a murder storyline, he created character Mary Frances Stone (referred to onscreen as "Frankie"). Hendrickson was cast in the part. Her character was set to be the lesbian girlfriend of Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel) and be killed in 3 months. It was deemed unlikely that a homosexual pairing on a soap opera would be successful, but fan reaction to the Bianca and Frankie pairing was unprecedented.cite news|title=Hendrickson To Return as "Maggie" |publisher=www.soapcentral.com|accessdate=2007-08-12|url=http://www.soapcentral.com/amc/news/2002/0114-hendrickson.php] cite news| title=Fans Cry Foul Over Bianca's Latest Loss!|publisher="Soaps In Depth"|date=2001-12-25|accessdate=2008-02-09|url=http://www.elizabeth-hendrickson.net/SID122501.html] Unfortunately, the Culliton murder storyline could not be rewritten, so Frankie was killed and Bianca's mother, Erica Kane (Susan Lucci), was seen standing over her corpse holding a gun.

This prompted uproar in the soap opera community, and producers quickly thought up a way to bring the actress back to the show. Rather than rewrite Frankie's murder, the writers created her identical twin sister, Mary Margaret Stone (better known as Maggie), in 2002. Maggie quickly became instrumental in solving her sister's murder.

Storyline tension was created when it was revealed that unlike Frankie, character Maggie was not gay. This, however, did not stop Bianca and Maggie (fondly referred to in soap circles as BAM) fans from becoming very vocal about their support for the couple. After several heterosexual pairings involving Maggie did not work on the show, the writers began to develop a deepening relationship between the two characters. Eventually, Maggie kissed Bianca, moments before Bianca's lover, Lena Kundera (Olga Sosnovska), walked in. [cite web| first=Karen | last=Watkins |title=A BIRTHDAY WISH...|publisher=About.com|date="|date=2003-02-11|accessdate=2008-01-22|url=http://www.elizabeth-hendrickson.net/SOD021103.html] Hendrickson subsequently gained a loyal lesbian following. In 2006, Lesbianation.com, self-proclaimed as the leading online community for lesbians, voted her on their top ten list of "Women We Love".cite news| first=Shane| last=Cassidy | title=Women We Love: The Ladies of June '06|publisher=lesbianation.com|url=http://www.lesbianation.com/scene/index.cfm?listID=118] The following year, Hendrickson again made the list.cite news| first=Shane| last=Cassidy | title=Women We Love: The Ladies of March '07|publisher=lesbianation.com|accessdate=2008-01-22|url=http://www.lesbianation.com/scene/index.cfm?listID=146]

A popular role for Hendrickson, she portrayed Maggie until February 2005. Onscreen, Maggie exited Pine Valley with Bianca, traveling with her and her daughter, Miranda, to live in Paris. In late 2005, during Bianca's visit to Pine Valley, it was revealed that Maggie and Bianca had become lovers offscreen. In real life, Hendrickson and former castmate Eden Riegel have since separately moved to Los Angeles, and are pursuing other acting ventures. Riegel, however, did return to "All My Children" for a year, as part of a major storyline in late 2006, early 2007. Hendrickson returned again in January 2007 for a short 3-week stint. Her last airdate was February 7 2007 when her character returned to Paris.cite news|title=February 5th - Week 3.5 of BAM|publisher="Soaps In Depth"|date=2007-02-05She cried mea culpa, clashed with Zoe and ultimately returned solo to France. Unfortunately, BAM fans, Maggie appears to have left the building. Try though she might, "AMC's" Maggie can't seem to convince her ex, Bianca, that her cheating days are over. After begging for forgiveness and pitching in at Fusion, Mags makes her lonely exit on Wednesday, February 7. Is this the end for "AMC's" Sapphic supercouple? "Bianca still loves her," headwriter Megan McTavish assures the audience. "And yet, at the same time, I don't think it's a given that you necessarily forgive the person who cheated on you. So Maggie has an uphill climb." Ms. Stone's ambiguous exit leaves viewers wondering whether she'll return, yet an "AMC" rep says nothing is planned at this time.]

Other roles

Since leaving "All My Children," Hendrickson has earned guest starring roles in the television shows "Medium", "Cold Case", "" and an uncredited role in "Criminal Minds."cite web| title=A New Face And A Lot Of Attitude!|publisher=theyoungandtherestless.com|accessdate=2008-02-10|url=http://www.theyoungandtherestless.com/news_events/detail_3435.html] She was to guest star on an episode of "Criminal Minds" titled "Doubt" on April 25 2007, in the role of Katie, but the episode was pulled in deference to the tragedy at Virginia Tech and similar subject matter. The episode became the Season 3 premiere instead.

Hendrickson has since signed on in the role of Chloe Mitchell, a fashionista who stirs up trouble on the daytime drama "The Young and the Restless".cite news| title=Soap Opera Digest and Weekly Reports Breaking News|publisher="Soap Opera Digest"|accessdate=2008-01-26] It was revealed on the August 29 2008 episode that she is actually Kate, daughter of Katherine Chancellor's maid, Esther.

She is currently starring in the web series "Imaginary Bitches" with Riegel.

Personal life

Offscreen, Hendrickson became the subject of soap opera gossip by dating fellow soap opera actors like Jonathan Bennett, Agim Kaba and Jacob Young.

Her favorite actors include Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Meg Ryan and Charlie Chaplin.

Filmography

References

External links

* [http://www.elizabeth-hendrickson.net/ Elizabeth Hendrickson Online] - Official website
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1058513/ Elizabeth Hendrickson] on the Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao0x4zsb724 Elizabeth Hendrickson in Bud Light Commercial]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WMhkn43FQk Elizabeth Hendrickson in Ford Fusion Commercial]
* [http://www.imaginarybitches.com/Home.html "Imaginary Bitches" Web Series]