Career
Ripa acquired her first major acting role as goth teen turned suffering heroine Hayley Vaughan on the soap opera All My Children. While there, the character would become a popular fixture.
Later, Ripa was selected to work alongside Regis Philbin for the long-running talk show Live with Regis and Kelly. Ripa was on double duty, but the following year in 2002, Ripa left All My Children.
A few months before Ripa hosted Live, she appeared on a celebrity version of the Philbin Who Wants to be a Millionaire and walked away with $250,000 for charity.
In September 2003, she was back on double duty when she co-starred (with Faith Ford) on Hope & Faith, a situation comedy. She portrayed Faith Fairfield, a former soap star whose character is killed off and who moves in with (and subsequently wreaks havoc on) her sister Hope's family. Hope & Faith survived for three seasons before a ratings decline led to its cancellation.
In June 2004, Ripa agreed to continue as
More about Kelly Ripa (From Wikipedia)
Early Life
Kelly Ripa went to Berlin Community School in Berlin, NJ, then attended school at Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees Township, New Jersey. She performed in high school plays read more...
Career
Ripa acquired her first major acting role as goth teen turned suffering heroine Hayley Vaughan on the soap opera All My Children. While there, the character would become a popular read more...
Controversies
On August 14, 2002, guest Judith Light created a stir on Live with Regis and Kelly when she got into a shouting match with Kelly after Kelly corrected Judith's pronunciation of "Worcestershire".[citation read more...
Awards And Honors
Ripa won five Soap Opera Digest Awards for playing Hayley on All My Children in 1996, 1998 & 2000. She has been nominated for 8 Daytime Emmy Awards. Three of these nominations read more...
Personal Life
Ripa was born in Camden County, New Jersey, the daughter of Esther "Essie", a homemaker, and Joseph Ripa, a labor union president and bus driver. Kelly Ripa is 3/4 Italian, 1/4 Irish; read more...
Kelly Maria Ripa (born October 2, 1970) an American Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress, television personality and talk show host. Since February 2001, she has served as the co-host read more...