Roscoe Born

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Roscoe Born (born November 24, 1950) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actor.

In the last 25 years, he has appeared most often in daytime television: Ryan's Hope from 1981-1983 and 1988 as Joe Novak, One Life to Live from 1985-1986 and 2002-2003 as Mitch Laurence, Santa Barbara as Robert Barr and his twin Quinn Armitage from 1989-1991 a role that earned him an Emmy Award-nomination. He was also a regular on the primetime soap Paper Dolls as Mark Bailey in 1984. His most recent performance was on The Young and the Restless in the critically acclaimed role of the evil Tom Fisher. Many of his daytime roles showcased him in evil roles, with the exception of Nick Rivers on the 1995-1997 ABC series The City. Nick was a grizzled musician, allowing Born the opportunity to perform his own material.

In the 1980's he also guest starred in such prime time shows as Murder She Wrote and Midnight Caller and starred in the TV movies The Haunting of Sarah Hardy and Lady Mobster. In 1989 he had a featured role in the cult-classic Independent Film Pow Wow Highway. 1970's TV appearances include The Incredible Hulk, Six Million Dollar Man, two episodes of The Rockford Files and the TV movie Fast Friends.

Born was married to fellow Ryan's Hope actor Randall Edwards from 1985 to 1990 and Santa Barbara co-star Roberta Weiss from 1994 to 1997. With Weiss he had a daughter,born six weeks premature in October 1997. Around this time Born played the dastardly Jim Thomasen on All My Children. In late 1997 he abruptly left the role [1] and was shunned from daytime for the next several years (save bit parts on As the World Turns and Guiding Light). Born was working outside of the industry when One Life to Live hired him in 2002.

Over the last 30 years he has worked in Regional Theatre on both coasts, and Off and Off-Off Broadway in New York.