Kassie DePaiva
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Kassie DePaiva (born Katherine Virginia Wesley on March 21, 1961 in Morganfield, Kentucky) is an American soap opera actress.
She is credited prior to 1996 as Kassie Wesley. She has played two major soap roles: Chelsea Reardon on Guiding Light (1986-1991) and Blair Daimler Cramer One Life to Live. She has played the role on One Life to Live since 1993, when she replaced Mia Korf. (Cramer is one of the few characters in soap operas that changed ethnicity; Korf is half-Asian while DePaiva is white.) DePaiva's pairing with Roger Howarth's (and later Trevor St. John's) Todd Manning struck with viewers and the two became a supercouple.
She was also featured in the horror film Evil Dead II (1987). DePaiva is also a singer, and has released two albums: Naked and No Regrets. At the age of 18, she made her debut singing on the legendary Grand Ole Opry stage. DePaiva attended Indiana University in Bloomington for two years. She then transferred to UCLA, where she dropped out shortly before graduation to go overseas with the USO to entertain troops stationed in Japan, Korea, and Okinawa. She was a contestant on the short-lived CBS game show Body Language; she lost on both of her appearances.
She married fellow One Life to Live actor James DePaiva in May 1996. They have a son named James Quentin.
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