By Cassie Lee
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Rebecca Ann Herbst (born May 12, 1977) is an American actress, known for playing Head Nurse Elizabeth Webber on the ABC Daytime drama General Hospital, a role she originated on August 1, 1997, and Suzee, an alien, on the Nickelodeon show, Space Cases.
Herbst was born in Encino, California. She grew up with parents Debbie and Wayne, and has an older sister, Jennifer. She is not related to General Hospital co-star Rick Hearst (who portrays Ric Lansing, Elizabeth Webber’s ex-husband), whose surname was Herbst before he changed it professionally. Herbst was a competitive figure skater as a child, and at age sixteen decided to concentrate on acting.
Herbst began as a series regular as Elizabeth Webber on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital on August 1, 1997. In 1999, Herbst won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Younger Lead Actress, and also received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress. In 2000, Soap Opera Update named Herbst No. 6 on their list of Woman of 2000. She was nominated in 2003 for the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Younger Actress. In 2007, Herbst appeared on Tyra Banks‘ talk show to help Tyra through “soap opera school.” Herbst was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2007 and 2012.
Herbst also designs clothes. She has designed most of her Daytime Emmy dresses, and dresses for co-stars Natalia Livingston and Kimberly McCullough for the 33rd Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony.
Herbst became a spokeswoman for Purpose Skincare in 2007. She participates in the Smile Train charity.
Flowers spring forth in abundance this month. Depending on the Native American tribe, May’s Full Moon was called the Full Flower Moon as well as Mother’s Moon, Milk Moon, and Corn Planting Moon. The May Moon marked a time of increasing fertility with temperatures warm enough for safely bearing young, a near end to late frosts, and plants in bloom.
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On this date in history:
In 1926, the British general strike, which had held the nation in its grip for more than 8 1/2 days, was ended.
In 1937, George VI was crowned king of England, succeeding his brother Edward, who abdicated to marry U.S. divorcee Wallis Simpson.
In 1975, a Cambodian military boat fired on the U.S. cargo ship Mayaguez and forced it into a Cambodian port, setting off an international incident. Although authorities were to release the ship’s crew members unharmed, a mission to rescue them led to the downing of three U.S. helicopters, and many deaths among U.S. troops and others.
In 2000, Adam Petty, the fourth-generation driver of NASCAR’s first family of racing, died after a deadly wall crash during a practice session at New Hampshire International Speedway. He was 19.
In 2002, former President Jimmy Carter began a trip to Cuba. He was the first president, in or out of office, to visit the island since communists took over in 1959.
In 2008, a magnitude-8 earthquake, China’s deadliest in three decades, 69,000 people were killed with nearly 18,000 missing and hundreds of thousands homeless. It is often called the Great Sichuan Earthquake.
In 2013, 19 people were injured in what police said in shootings that were gang-related at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans.
In 2019, attackers attending a mass at a Catholic church in Dablo, Burkina Faso, killed six people.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
musician Steve Winwood in 1948 (age 77)
actor Bruce Boxleitner in 1950 (age 75)
actor Gabriel Byrne in 1950 (age 75)
musician Kix Brooks (Brooks & Dunn) in 1955 (age 70)
musician Eric Singer (Kiss) in 1958 (age 67)
actor Ving Rhames in 1959 (age 66)
political commentator Paul Begala in 1961 (age 64)
actor Emilio Estevez in 1962 (age 63)
musician/producer Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion) in 1962 (age 63)
TV personality/chef Carla Hall in 1964 (age 61)
Julius Maada Bio, president of Sierra Leone, in 1964 (age 61)
actor Stephen Baldwin in 1966 (age 59)
Skateboarding Hall of Fame member Tony Hawk in 1968 (age 58)
actor Catherine Tate in 1968 (age 57)
actor Kim Fields in 1969 (age 56)
actor Samantha Mathis in 1970 (age 55)
actor Rhea Seehorn in 1972 (age 53)
musician Matt Mangano (Zac Brown Band) in 1976 (age 49)
actor Rebecca Herbst in 1977 (age 48)
actor Malin Akerman in 1978 (age 47)
actor Jason Biggs in 1978 (age 47)
actor Rami Malek in 1981 (age 44)
actor Domhnall Gleeson in 1983 (age 42)
actor Emily VanCamp in 1986 (age 39)
actor Odeya Rush in 1997 (age 28)
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