Jean paige turco biography
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Paige Turco was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 17, 1965. When she was a year old her father passed away and her mother moved them to Springfield, Massachusetts. As a child she studied to become a ballerina. She performed as a soloist with the New England Dance Conservatory, The Amherst Ballet Theatre Company and the Western Massachusetts Ballet Company, but her dreams were shattered when an ankle injury terminated her career as a dancer at the age of 14. She was forced to re-evaluate her career decision and focused on drama and musical comedies instead. Paige graduated from the University of Connecticut with a grad in drama.
She landed her first soap opera part in 1987 in CBS's Guiding Light (1952), as a troubled teenager who is adopted by a wealthy woman. The following year she transferred to ABC's All My Children (1970), where she played Melanie Cortlant. In 1989 Paige left soaps and tried her luck on the big screen, starring in such films as Teenage Mutant Ninj
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Paige Turco
American actress (b. 1965)
Jean Paige Turco (born May 17, 1965) is an American actress, who portrayed April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.[4] Other roles include Dinah Marler on daytime’s Guiding Light on CBS, Melanie Cortlandt on the ABC soap opera All My Children, Terri Lowell in the CBS series The Agency, Gail Emory in the CBS series American Gothic and appearances in NYPD Blue, Party of Five and Person of Interest. From 2014 to 2019 she starred as Abigail Griffin in the post-apocalyptic drama series, The 100.
Early life
[edit]Turco was born to Joyce Jean (Jodoin) and David Vincent Turco[5] in Boston, Massachusetts. At one year old her mother moved them to Springfield, Massachusetts where she was raised, after the death of her father. She is of Italian, French-Canadian and English ancestry.[6] She took ballet lessons as a little girl an
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Paige Turco
Jean Paige Turco (Springfield, 17 de maio de 1965) é uma atrizestadunidense. Ficou conhecida pelo seu papel na série The 100 interpretando a Dr. Abigail Griffin (Abby), mãe de Clarke Griffin, a principal protagonista na série da emissora The CW que estreou em 2014 e foi renovada para sétima temporada (a última, anunciada em 2019) para 2020. Quando criança, ela estudou para se tornar uma bailarina. Ela se apresentou como solista com o Conservatório de Dança de New England, Western Massachusetts Ballet Company, mas seus sonhos foram destruídos, quando uma lesão no tornozelo encerrou sua carreira como dançarina aos 14 anos. Ela foi forçada a voltar e reavaliar sua decisão de carreira e focou-se em dramas e comédias musicais. Paige formou-se na Universidade de Connecticut com licenciatura em teatro.
História
[editar | editar código-fonte]Ela conseguiu seu primeiro papel numa novela em 1987 da CBS The Guiding Light, como uma adolescente problemática que é adotada