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Sharon Case Profile |
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Birth Date: February 9, 1971
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Birth Place: Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Birth Name: Sharon Case
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Height: 5'7"
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Biography |
Sharon Case is
an Emmy Award-winning American soap opera actress.
In 1994, she became the third, and longest-running, actress
to play Sharon Collins Newman on The Young and the Restless,
a role that she still plays today. Case has won several
awards for her work on Y&R, including the Outstanding
Supporting Actress Daytime Emmy in 1999. She also received
the 1998 Soap Opera Award for Hottest Female In A Daytime
Drama. In April 2007, Case renewed her contract with the
show, signing on for three more years.
In 1989, she assumed the role of Dawn Winthrop on General
Hospital; she left the show in 1990. She then took the role
of Debbie Simon on As the World Turns in 1992 and played the
role until 1993.
In 2005, she filmed a movie called Carpool Guy with co-star
Lauralee Bell.
Along with doing work in soaps, Case has also appeared in
several primetime shows including Cheers, Beverly Hills
90210, Parker Lewis Can't Lose and Silk Stalkings. Early in
her career, Case turned down an offer to appear in a large
role in the HBO film Breast Men because she didn't feel
comfortable being topless in a movie. She appeared in FHM
magazine in 2001.
In her childhood, Case focused on ballet and jazz. While in
grammar school her family moved to Los Angeles, where she
was discovered at a local modeling event. She was offered
and accepted a job in Japan when she was 17 and worked there
for five months before returning to LA, where she took
acting lessons. |
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Other
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Has blonde hair and blue eyes. |
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