Trent Jones
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Trent Jones is an American soap opera writer, singer, and actor. His wife is Francesca Jones, a freelance artist.
He began playing rock star Ken George Jones on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. He not only acted in the role, but sang and even composed some of his character's songs. He later was hired to become a script writer for that show.
He became a writer of the CBS soap operas Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow, As the World Turns, and the highest rated daytime serial, The Young and the Restless.
He has one daughter, Francesca Jones Jr.
Ryan's Hope
Search for Tomorrow
Guiding Light
The Young and the Restless
Writers Guild of America Award
He began playing rock star Ken George Jones on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. He not only acted in the role, but sang and even composed some of his character's songs. He later was hired to become a script writer for that show.
He became a writer of the CBS soap operas Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow, As the World Turns, and the highest rated daytime serial, The Young and the Restless.
He has one daughter, Francesca Jones Jr.
Positions held
As the World TurnsAs the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
- Associate Head Writer: April 26 - September 26, 2005
Ryan's Hope
Ryan's Hope
Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera, revolving around 13 years of trials and tribulations within a large Irish American family in the Riverside district of New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC...
- Script Writer: 1982 - 1983
Search for Tomorrow
Search for Tomorrow
Search for Tomorrow is an American soap opera which premiered on September 3, 1951 on CBS. The show was moved from CBS to NBC on March 29, 1982. It continued on NBC until the final episode aired on December 26, 1986, a run of thirty-five years. At the time of its final broadcast it was the...
- Breakdown Writer: 1986
Guiding Light
Guiding Light
Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
- Script Writer: 1982 - 1983
- Breakdown Writer: 1987 - 1989, 1991–1992, 1993
The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
- Associate Head Writer: 1993 - 2000, October 4, 2005 - July 18, 2006
- Co-Head WriterHead writerA head writer is a person who oversees the team of writers on a television or radio series. The title is common in the soap opera genre, as well as with sketch comedies and talk shows that feature monologues and comedy skits, but in prime time series this function is generally performed by an...
: Fall 2000 - August 5, 2004
Awards and nominations
Daytime Emmy Awards- NOMINATION (1995, 1997–1999, 2001, 2003–2005; Best Writing; The Young and the Restless)
- WIN (2000; Best Writing; The Young and the Restless)
- WIN (1986, 1990 & 1993; Best Writing; Guiding Light)
- NOMINATION (1985, 1989, 1992; Best Writing; Guiding Light)
- WIN (1983; Best Writing; Ryan's Hope)
Writers Guild of America Award
Writers Guild of America Award
The Writers Guild of America Award for outstanding achievements in film, television, and radio has been presented annually by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West since 1949...
- WIN (2002 Season; The Young and the Restless)
- NOMINATION (1999 & 2001 Season; The Young and the Restless)