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Awards and nominations | Articles and interviews Vincent Irizarry on Web Vincent Irizarry's Biography
Vincent Irizarry is a native of New York. He was born November 12, 1959 in Queens. He has always had a passion and great talent for the arts. Beginning as a young boy, he studied both photography and piano. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. While there, he became actively involved in acting, performing in many productions with a regional theater company. Vincent moved from Boston to New York to begin a career as a professional actor, receiving a full-time scholarship with the late Lee Strasberg at his Theater Institute. Vincent's first professional acting performance was at the New York Shakespeare Festival in The Death of Von Richtoven. Off-Broadway he has portrayed Paul McCartney in Lennon and has performed leading roles in Modigliani and Everyman. He has also appeared in productions of The Indian Wants the Bronx, The Taming of the Shrew, Death Watch, The Long Goodbye, and The Imaginary Invalid. Vincent's first daytime television work was as the anti-hero, Lujak, in The Guiding Light, a role he received while he was waiting table and sleeping in the back of New York's 13th Street Theater. His portrayal of Lujak earned him a Daytime Emmy nomination in 1986 and made Vincent a nationally popular star. In one month, he pulled in more fan mail than any other actor in the history of any Proctor and Gamble daytime drama. Soon after his success in The Guiding Light, Vincent moved to Los Angeles. There he performed in many roles in television series and movies. He worked opposite Nancy McKeon in the television movie, Firefighter, and with Treat Williams and Peter Coyote in Joseph Wambaugh's Echoes in the Darkness. He won critical acclaim in the lead role of Gino Santangelo in the Jackie Collins' miniseries, Lucky Chances. He has performed in many television series, including LA Law, Santa Barbara, Murder She Wrote, and Beverly Hill, 90210, in which he portrays the charming, but deadly, pimp, Riggs. His feature movie roles including playing Sissy Spaceck's abusive husband in Marie - A True Story and performing with Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge. In 1996, Vincent played the lead role in the television movie, Lying Eyes, the story of man whose insatiable desires lead him to live a double life of lies. Vincent returned to New York and The Guiding Light in 1992 in the newly created role of Nick. In November 1997 he joined the cast of All My Children in what was supposed to be a short-term contract role as the evil and manipulative Dr. David Hayward, a man who Dr. Allie Doyle knew in the past and who wanted to once again be part of her life. Dr. Hayward turned out to be not only incredibly evil but also immensely popular, and Vincent returned to Pine Valley in 1998 where he has resided ever since. He played his evil parts so well that he won the Soap Opera Digest award for Outstanding Villain in 1999. Besides acting, Vincent continues to practice and enjoy his other artistic talents. He is an avid photographer and plays piano at the concert level. He has developed his classical tenor voice to the point where he has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre de Lyon in France. Vincent resides in Manhattan with has two daughters. The oldest, Siena, by his first wife Signy Coleman, and Aria by his current wife Avalon. Source is the website of Sandy Strider You can also be interested in:
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