Catherine Hickland Biography

Catherine Hickland was born February 11, 1956 and is a singer and an actress best known for roles in soap operas broadcast in the United States, most notably as the character of Lindsay Rappaport on ABCs One Life To Live, a character which she has portrayed since 1998.

Hickland was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and graduated from Fort Lauderdale High School in 1974. She went on to enroll at Florida Atlantic University as a physical education major, but dropped out after two years. She married Richard Knowlton in 1978, but they divorced the same year.

Hickland is known primarily for appearances in daytime dramas, along with guest-starring roles in some other high-profile series. Her first major role was on Texas as Dr. Courtney Marshall from 1980 to 1981, followed by the role of Julie Clegg McCandless on Capitol from 1983 to 1987, and the dual role of Jenny Diamond from 1985 to 1986.

While engaged to her future husband David Hasselhoff, she appeared in three episodes of his series Knight Rider. She also played Tess Wilder on Loving (1993-1995) and The City (1995-1997). In 1997, she filled in for Katherine Kelly Lang as Brooke Logan on the serial The Bold and the Beautiful while Lang was on maternity leave. Since 1998, Hickland has portrayed Lindsay Rappaport on One Life to Live; in May 2005 she was bumped from contract to recurring status on One Life to Live, but remained in their opening all the way into January 2009.

As a guest star, Hickland appeared in numerous television series, including CHiPs, Law & Order and Airwolf, in which she acted alongside her then-husband Hasselhoffs Super-Machine lead character rival, Stringfellow Hawke, played by Jan-Michael Vincent.

Hickland has also appeared in Broadway musicals, starring most notably in Les Misérables as Fantine. In 2001, she released a music CD, Sincerely Broadway and started her cosmetics line Cat Cosmetics where she loves teaching women how to take charge of and enhance their beauty both inside and out. She has also written a column on cosmetics and skin care for Soap Opera Digest.

Hicklands first book, The 30 Day Heartbreak Cure - A Guide to Getting Over Him and Back Out There One Month From Today was published in December 2008 by Simon and Schuster.

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