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Roscoe Born (born November 24, 1950 in Topeka

Topeka, Kansas

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, Kansas

Kansas

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) is an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

United States

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Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
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In the last 25 years, Born has appeared most often in daytime television, first appearing on the soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
Ryan's Hope
Ryan's Hope

Ryan's Hope is an United States soap opera, revolving around the trials and tribulations of a large Irish American family in New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on American Broadcasting Company....
as Joe Novak from 1981 to 1983 and again in 1988. He next portrayed villain Mitch Laurence

Mitch Laurence

Mitch Laurence is a fictional character, portrayed by Roscoe Born, on the American Broadcasting Corporation daytime television soap opera One Life to Live, from 1985 to 1987 and again from 2002 to 2003....
on One Life to Live
One Life to Live

One Life to Live is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network since July 15, 1968....
from 1985 to 1986, during a season in which the series rose from #4 to #3 in the Nielsen Ratings

Nielsen Ratings

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Roscoe Born (born November 24, 1950 in Topeka

Topeka, Kansas

Kansas

The State of Kansas is a Midwestern U.S. state in the Central United States of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the United States "Heartland"....
) is an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

United States

Actor

Soap opera

Mitch Laurence

Nielsen Ratings

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(he would later return to the role from 2002 to 2003). Born later appeared on Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara (TV series)

Santa Barbara is an United States decade long and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993....
in his best known roles Robert Barr

Quinn Armitage and Robert Barr

Quinn Armitage and Robert Barr were fictional characters on the United States soap opera Santa Barbara . The twin brothers were portrayed by United States actor Roscoe Born....
and his twin Quinn Armitage

Quinn Armitage and Robert Barr

Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
-nomination. He was also a regular on the primetime soap Paper Dolls
Paper Dolls

Paper Dolls is an American prime time soap opera set in New York City's fashion industry that aired for 14 episodes on American Broadcasting Company from September 23, 1984 to December 25, 1984....
as Mark Bailey in 1984. His most recent performance was on The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26, 1973. It was created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, who set their show in a Genoa City of Genoa City, Wisconsin, a town near their annual vacation home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin....
in the critically acclaimed role of the evil Tom Fisher

Tom Fisher (The Young and the Restless)

Tom Fisher is a fictional character from the United States soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Roscoe Born from April 2005 to January 2006 and by Jonathan Fraser in 2 episodes in 2004....
. Many of his daytime roles showcased him in evil roles, with the exception of Nick Rivers on the 1995-1997 ABC series The City
The City

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. Nick was a grizzled musician, allowing Born the opportunity to perform his own material.

In the 1980s he also guest starred in such prime time shows as Murder She Wrote and Midnight Caller
Midnight Caller

Midnight Caller is a dramatic National Broadcasting Company television series which ran from 1988 to 1991. It was one of the first television series to address the dramatic possibilities of the then-growing phenomenon of talk radio....
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. 1970s TV appearances include The Incredible Hulk, Six Million Dollar Man, two episodes of The Rockford Files
The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files is an American detective television drama originally aired on the NBC television network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980; it has remained in constant television syndication to the present day, making it a cult classic....
and the TV movie Fast Friends
Fast Friends

Fast Friends was a short lived game show that aired for one series on BBC One in 1991. It was hosted by Les Dawson....
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Born was married to fellow Ryan's Hope actor Randall Edwards

Randall Edwards (actress)

Randall Edwards is an United States of America television actress whose most famous role was on Ryan's Hope as Delia Reid Ryan Ryan Coleridge #3 from 1979-1982....
from 1985 to 1990 and Santa Barbara co-star Roberta Weiss

Roberta Weiss

Roberta Weiss is a Canada actress most notably recognized for her role as Flame Beaufort on NBC's soap opera Santa Barbara . She portrayed the role from 1990 to 1991....
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
All My Children

All My Children, sometimes abbreviated by fans and the press as AMC, is an United States soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the American Broadcasting Company television network since January 5, 1970, and the daily episode also airs weeknights on SOAPnet....
. In late 1997 he abruptly left the role and did not appear on daytime for the next several years (save bit parts on As the World Turns
As the World Turns

As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that airs each weekday on CBS.Set in the fictional town of Oakdale , the show debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm Eastern Time Zone....
and Guiding Light
Guiding Light

Guiding Light is an United States television program credited by the Guinness World Records as being the longest-running soap opera in production and the longest running drama in television and radio history....
). Born was working outside of the industry when One Life to Live rehired him from 2002 to 2003 to reprise the role of Mitch. Born portrayed a prison warden on Passions
Passions

Passions is an American television soap opera created by veteran writer James E. Reilly. Produced by Universal Media Studios, the series debuted July 5, 1999, on NBC , and its last airdate on that network was September 7, 2007....
in 2007, and played the contract role of Dean

Dean (education)

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Trent Robbins on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives is an United States soap opera, which has aired nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965 on the NBC network in the United States, and has since been syndicated to many countries around the world....
from May 29, 2008 to September 26, 2008.

Born has the distinction of appearing in more soaps than any other actor (14) and at this time has appeared on all currently airing soaps, with the exception of The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera. Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers around the Forrester family and their Haute couture business Forrester Creations....
and General Hospital
General Hospital

General Hospital is an United States soap opera broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network during the day and on SOAPnet each weeknight....
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Over the last thirty years he has worked in Regional Theatre on both coasts, and Off Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway

Off-Off-Broadway

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in New York

New York

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