Cynthia Watros and Wendy Moniz were the first two that immediately came to my mind... though Moniz is returning to daytime soon! Any word on an airdate? I haven't heard...

She started last week

Don Hastings

Kathryn Hays

Maura West

Linda Dano

Stephen Schnetzer

Tom Eplin

Ron Raines

David Canary

Edited September 20, 201114 yr by Max

What have Don Hastings and Kathryn Hays done since ATWT's cancellation?

I've only known Kelly Rutherford's work from Gossip Girl and have always loved her with the eerie suspicion I had seen her on other things.

Here is my list:

Eva LaRue

Shemar Moore

Noelle Beck

Julianne Moore

Josh Duhamel

Kelli Giddish

Sherry Stringfield -She found success on ER after leaving the role of Blake on Guiding Light

Demi Moore

Lauren Holly

She started last week

Aw snap, I gotta catch up!

Kelly Rutherford, to me, was one of the very few bright spots during Melrose Place's last 2 seasons on the air.

I love anyone almost anyone I recognize as having a soap "past".

Michael Weatherly

Mark Derwin

Natalie Zea

Richard Burgi

Eddie Cibrian

Billy Magnussen

Peyton List

Alex Chando

Jesse Soffer

Matt Bomer

Lindsay Frost

They may not be huge names, but they're working.

Edited September 20, 201114 yr by P.J.

Larry Bryggman

Margaret Colin

Kim Delaney

Frances Fisher

Michelle Forbes

Marg Helgenberger

Dorothy Lyman

Julianne Moore

John Wesley Shipp

Sherry Stringfield

Holland Taylor

Most I can think of have been listed, but i also think of many who have had a lot of stage success--the brilliant Tonya Pinkins (I still can't believe how useless her return to AMC was) had some stage success before (and then I guess was briefly homeless? Something crazy) but after her first AMC stint she won a lot of accolades for being in the musical The Wild Party with Eartha Kitt, Mandy Patinkin and Toni Colette, and was robbed of an Emmy win for her nomnation in the Tony Kushner musical Caroline, or Change.

Elaine Princi

Eric, you mentioned Tonya Pinkins. Am I crazy , or was she once on ATWT? Or am I thinking of someone else? I keep getting a mental picture of her singing at Steve and Betsy's wedding.

Yes she played Heather Dalton in the mid 80s according to her bio from 83-86, so when she was still quite fresh (she was still a teenager when she had her Broadway debut in the infamous, but beloved, Stephen Sondheim flop Merrily we Roll Along in '81). She was also in the truly dreadful primetime syndicated soap University Hospital--which filmed in Vancouver where I happened to meet her in the mid 90s when I was a teenager. She was absolutely lovely. She sang a bit on AMC as well--I believe at Mona's funeral, and had an amazing voice--I also often think her and Tom are forgotten as being such a great couple--they never seem to get brought up around AMC couples.

Her voice was shot when she performed this number from Caroline on the Tony Awards, but you can still get some sense of her strengths, which AMC really didn't use when they brought her back onto contrack in the mid 2000s, only to basically play a lawyer in some court scenes and disappear again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLcMXS0booM

Edited September 22, 201114 yr by EricMontreal22

Tonya was very good on ATWT. She never really had a chance to shine. She also didn't really quit by choice - she felt the producer did not care for her and she was essentially let go while on vacation.

That group of ATWT ladies cast around 83-85 went on to some fame - Pinkins, Julianne Moore, Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei. And of course, as they kept showing over and over years back, Courtney Cox in a day player role.

Edited September 22, 201114 yr by CarlD2