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Emmy Award wiining actor, Rick Hearst born on January 4, grew up in New York in a tight-knit Italian Family.
 
His mother is originally from Italy, making Rick a first generation American. Rick’s fascination for the ocean and sea life would have led him to a career in Oceanography, but at the age of twelve, Rick’s focus shifted to acting when his mother remarried and they moved to Texas.
 
Rick went on to land an acting scholarship at the University of Texas Austin. He starred in several theatrical productions while at UT in Summer Stock and met his wife Donna in one of the productions.
 
Knowing he wanted to pursue a career in acting and feeling that the acting coursework was not intense enough, Rick left University and moved to New York, where he quickly landed three agents.
He studied at the Circle in the Square Conservatory for two years while auditioning for television and movie roles. Rick’s first television role came in 1989, when he landed a role on Days of our Lives. He went on to star in several daytime dramas over the next several years, including Guiding Light, the Young and the Restless, and the Bold and the Beautiful.
[caption id="attachment_87" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Rick Hearst"][/caption] Rick received the 1997 Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Daytime Drama Series  for his work on Guiding Light.
He has been nominated numerous times in supporting categories over the course of the next 10 years.
 
 He garnered  2 additional Emmy Awards in 2004 and 2006 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama Series.
 
Rick has guest-starred in several primetime television series including Charmed and Beverly Hills, 90210- just to name a few.
 
Rick and his wife Donna live in the Los Angeles area with their two sons, Nicholas and Cameron.
 
Rick has a first degree black belt in Karate. In his spare time, he enjoys Snowboarding, Boxing, Shooting Pool and spending time coaching.