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The "angel girl" has visited Grace Bennett since Passions began. She helped Grace through the trauma of her sister, Faith's death. {photo by Aaron Montgomery/JPI} |
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Chea is the real-life daughter of baseball legend Pete Rose, who played baseball with the Cincinnati Reds. She has been nominated for two Young Artist Awards, one for "Best Performance in a Soap Opera - Young Actress" as the Angel Girl and another for "Best Performance in a TV Drama Series - Young Actress Age Ten and Under" for her role as Sarah McBride on Melrose Place. Born on October 9, 1989, Chea has also appeared in the film Dragonfly (2002) as 12 Year Old Girl, on Judging Amy as "Ginny" (1/16/2001) and on Providence as "Mary Sizemore" (4/14/00). {photo on right courtesy Soap Opera Digest Online, photo on left by John Paschal/JPI} |
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It was the Angel Girl who helped guide Timmy into heaven. She recently made return visits to Grace. {photos courtesy Vera} |
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It's rare to have a "first" on daytime television these days, but Timmy was the first character of his kind on the soaps. Timmy was a doll that belonged to Tabitha, a 300 year old witch. Tabitha {Juliet Mills} and Timmy shared many adventures together, as he came to life to speak with Tabitha. When anyone else saw Timmy, they only saw a doll. She saw a little boy. Timmy had a great desire to be a little boy, so he could spend time with the other people he'd come to love in Harmony. For Christmas, 2001, Timmy became a real boy. But, this now meant he could suffer the same fate as a real person. Timmy died in the summer of 2002, but his heart lived on, as it was donated to Charity, his love. {photos courtesy NBC} |
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Josh Ryan Evans was also a first for daytime. Born January 10, 1982 with a form of dwarfism, Josh knew what he wanted to do with his life by age 12. He was an avid movie fan, spending much of his early childhood in the hospital, being entertained by the movies. So, at age 12, he printed up business cards for himself, without his parent's knowledge, saying "Joshua Ryan Evans--kid." It worked. Josh's first role was in the famous Dreyer's/Edy's ice cream commercial as the dancing baby. It was a technology marvel for its time, as Josh danced his way through the commercial, with a baby's head super-imposed on his body. Roles on Ally McBeal, 7th Heaven and Poltergeist: The Legacy followed. Although his role was unique to daytime, he became known outside daytime TV, as a pop culture icon. He even enjoyed fame with his co-star in a full-scale article in USA Today in 2000. In that article he noted, "My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18 year old actor, I'd be left unrecognized. People remember me." He knew how special he was. He always told people to "dream big" and signed every autographed photo with these words. On August 5, 2002, Josh died of heart failure, as a result of his dwarfism and the related heart condition. Ironically, his character, Timmy, died that same day onscreen in an episode taped several weeks earlier. While this seems a horribly irony, Juliet Mills, his co-star believes that Josh would have been fascinated to be the only television character EVER to die on and offscreen on the same day. {photo on left courtesy NBC, photo on right, courtesy joshryanevans.org} |
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