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Amber currently plays Kristy Ford on Hang Time on TNBC. Born in Miami Beach but raised in Michigan and New York, Barretto is best known for her two-year portrayal of Emily Ann Sago on the long-running soap opera "All My Children." As a young girl, Barretto loved to perform, and her parents entered her in the Little Miss Michigan pageant at age five. After winning the pageant, one of the judges helped her get an agent, which led to her first commercial, for Red Lobster. After moving with her family to New York, Barretto went on to appear in television and films. Her feature film credits include "New York Stories," directed by Francis Ford Coppola and "Little Monsters" with Fred Savage and Howie Mandel. In addition to her role on "All My Children," she has appeared in the soaps "As the World Turns" and "Another World" and the ABC After School Special "Summer Stories." Since moving to Los Angeles, Barretto got her first driver's license. In her free time, she enjoys reading at the beach, dancing (jazz, tap and ballet), singing and water skiing. Her birthday is January 19. {photo and bio courtesy NBC} |
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Just 9 years old, Mischa was cast on AMC as Lilly. It seems she most likely stepped in during the time Michelle Trachtenberg was away filming Harriet the Spy. She held the role of Young Corvina on the show a year earlier (1994). She appeared in flashbacks in about 10 episodes. Modeling for Calvin Klein kids was a breakout move in her career in the mid 90s. {Photos courtesy Just Who is Mischa Barton?} |
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Lilly's mother was Laurel Banning. Her father was named Denny, but he had never been a part of her life. The men in Laurel's life became important in Lilly's life, including Trevor {seen here} and later Jackson. {pics courtesy Amy} |
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You probably recognize Mischa, but don't remember where you've seen her.She was also seen in Notting Hill, Lawn Dogs, Pups, Frankie and Hazel and many other films. She has also held numerous Broadway roles, where she began her career. As have many other AMC child actors, she was chosen for the soap after they saw her work on the Broadway stage. {Photos courtesy Just Who is Mischa Barton?} |
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Mischa had an intriguing role in the movie The Sixth Sense as the little girl who had been killed by her parents, who spoke to Haley Joel Osment's character from under the bed. {Photos courtesy Childstarlets} |
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Charlotte and Margaret played Adam Jr. during an important storyline. Adam hired Dixie to be Laura's nanny, and Dixie stayed on as a servant after Laura was killed by a drunk driver. Adam wanted a son desperately, but Brooke was unable to give him one. Adam was determined to produce his own blood heir, so he slept with Dixie in the Chandler boathouse and she became pregnant. Dixie gave birth to Junior in 1989, and Adam plotted to secretly adopt him. Brooke would never know the child was his. But when Junior was born, Dixie refused to give him up, demanding that Adam make a choice between her and Brooke. Adam told Dixie she was his choice. Brooke overheard their conversation and was disgusted. She packed her bags and went to Jackson Montgomery, who helped her win half of Adam's fortune. Scrambling to secure his legacy, Adam promised to marry Dixie. He then attempted to drive Dixie insane and get her to commit herself to Laurel Hill, a mental institution. If his plan was successful, Junior would be solely Adam's. Tad realized what Adam was up to and helped Dixie escape from the hospital. Tad and Dixie married in 1989. {history courtesy The AMC Pages} |
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Charlotte and Margaret were the first in a line of young actors and actresses to play a role of the opposite sex. The girls played Adam Jr. into his toddler years, when they were recast because they were looking more and more like girls. {pics courtesy Amy} |
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When "Enzo" was seen in November after not being onscreen for a while, he was clearly 3 or 4 months old, with bright eyes. |
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After being an unseen child for most of the first year of his life, Enzo suddenly was onscreen regularly in the spring and summer of 2002. With Kelly Ripa's schedule on Live, she isn't on AMC nearly as much, so Enzo isn't either. Enzo was with his grandmother in Texas for several months, since his father was tracking Proteus and the family was in danger. |
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Suddenly in 2002, Enzo became sick and he needed a liver transplant. Every family member was tested, but no one matched. Hayley and Mateo hoped and prayed for their little boy. Finally, a match was found in Tim Dillon {on right}, who is Hayley's cousin, but not a blood relative. |
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Hayley, Mateo and Enzo left Pine Valley on December 18, 2002. Hayley had the opportunity to syndicate her talk show, The Wave, so they moved to LA to make her dream come true. This picture was taken as they headed out the door of SOS. {Picture by Virginia Sherwood} |
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Shadoe (born 3-18-92) took over the role of Sam in the middle of an important storyline. Sam's mother, Maria had just been found to be alive. Both of her children were trying to deal with having two mothers. Sam remembered his mother's smell, but little else. Before joining AMC, Shadoe appeared in The Christmas Carol on Broadway in 2001 as Tiny Tim at Madison Square Garden with Tim Curry. He then led the Santa Parade down 5th Ave to Brooks Brothers as Tiny Tim (photo on left_. He has done voice overs for Nickelodeon and Blues Clues. In the summer of 2002 he did a staged reading of The Muckleman at the Manhattan Theater Club. His only television appearances were a couple of commercials and a featured extra part on the ABC show The Job last winter. He also performed on an episode of Challenge America last Christmas when Mayor Guliani challenged Erin Brockovich to fix up a park in lower Manhattan and then throw a party for children who had been affected by 9-11. Shadoe, along with 5 little girls from various Broadway shows performed at the party as entertainers and closed the show with God Bless America. He takes dance lessons and voice lessons and hopes to release his first CD sometime early next year. {photo on right courtesy christmascarolkids.com, photo on left courtesy the Brandt family} |
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Shadoe, a Pennsylvania native, started his career about two years ago when his manager, Tamara Markowitz of TM Talent spotted him at a tri state talent competition. While his family was reluctant, they decided to give it a try. Since that fateful day Shadoe has been in the national tour of Annie Get Your Gun with Marilu Henner and Crystal Bernard for about 6 months. (He's practicing backstage with fellow cast member Paul Canann practicing backstage in San Diego in the photo on the right and in his Little Jake costume on the left.) Shadoe's AMC costar Mitchel Federan held the same role in AGYG. {photos courtesy the Brandt family} |
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As part of the touring cast of AGYG, Shadoe made his way across the country and spent some time in many different cities. While in the Everglades, he held a baby alligator. {photos courtesy the Brandt family} |
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In early 2003, Shadoe began the national tour of
Seussical: the Musical, opposite Cathy Rigby. He has earned
rave reviews, including this one from his home state of
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'Seussical' role lets boy sing, dance and even fly According to family lore, Shadoe Brandt could hum before he could talk. By the time he was 4, the guys at the shopping mall near his home in Connoquenessing, Butler County, were calling him Little Elvis and slipping him quarters when he sang for them. The Connoquenessing native isn't singing for quarters anymore. Shadoe, now 11, is a professional actor, singer and dancer with a slew of respectable credits. He has a continuing part as Sam Grey on the ABC daytime drama "All My Children," played Tiny Tim in the 2001 production of "A Christmas Carol" at Madison Square Garden in New York City and crossed the country as Little Jake in the national touring production of "Annie Get Your Gun." "I always wanted to be an actor," Shadoe says. "I just love to sing. I love to dance and watch shows." Tuesday evening, Shadoe makes his Pittsburgh professional debut as JoJo in "Seussical the Musical," which is being presented at Heinz Hall as part of the 2002-03 PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series. JoJo, Shadoe says, starts off the evening as a regular boy who comes out of the audience and encounters a tall hat ringed with red and white stripes. While he's investigating it, the Cat in the Hat pops up in the form of former gymnast Cathy Rigby "The Cat gets him (JoJo) into a lot of trouble, and during the show he turns into a Who," Shadoe says. Since its six-month run on Broadway during the 2000-01 season, creators Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens have reworked "Seussical the Musical." The character of JoJo is now the thread that connects the various parts of the show, which visits the many fantastic creatures and locations that make up the world of author Dr. Seuss. Composer and playwright Flaherty describes JoJo as the boy who invokes the Cat in the Hat. "He becomes a wild alter ego that allows a child to imagine the other things he can create," Flaherty says. It's not hard work, says Shadoe, and totally different from his part in "Annie Get Your Gun," when he was only onstage for a few scenes: "JoJo is a much better part. I'm only offstage for a half-hour and I'm the only kid in this show," he says. "It's fun, but sometimes you miss other kids." Shadoe says his favorite scenes are when he sings "It's Possible" in the first act and The Hunches scene in the second act that features costumes that glow under blacklight. "In both scenes I fly," Shadoe says, "and I like how they did the lights for the glow-in-the-dark suits." Shadoe alternates performances with another young actor, Drake English, so from time to time he gets to watch the show as an audience member. "I watch the Hunches sometimes if I think I'm doing a step wrong," he says. He also enjoys watching Don Stitt, who appears as Mayor McFuzz, and Eric Leviton, who plays Horton. Horton, Shadoe says, "Is a really good character. I like his scenes, especially when he does 'A Person's a Person.'" He has also learned a lot from working with Rigby, who he says is fun to work with. "She helps us build things and has a little adorable puppy named Emma." The tour of "Seussical" has dates through the end of June, after which Shadoe expects to return to his part in "All My Children." But he wouldn't mind performing in another national tour if one were to come along. "I love doing live theater because you get to see the people (in the audience). I like to see people clapping," Shadoe says. "I never get nervous when I'm out onstage, and I like the standing ovations." (review by Alice T. Carter, TRIBUNE-REVIEW THEATER CRITIC, Sunday, April 6, 2003) |
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Shadoe will soon be going back out in a Broadway national tour. He will be playing Billy Ray Jr. in On Golden Pond which is starring Michael Lerned (Olivia Walton from The Waltons) and Tom Bosley (Mr. Cunningham from Happy Days). The Show rehearsed in NYC and opened in St. Paul August 22, 2006. The tour continues through March 2007. This is Shadoe's 5th national tour. He was in the 2005 tour of Dr. Dolittle and also in The King and I since his AMC character was aged in 2004. {pic courtesy the Brandt family} |
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