By Tennille Ayers
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Katherine Kelly Lang (born Katherine Kelly Wegeman; July 25, 1961) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Brooke Logan in the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful of the CBS Daytime programming block.
Lang was born in Hollywood, California, and graduated from Beverly Hills High School. She is the daughter of Olympic ski jumper Keith R. Wegeman, a German-American and actress Judith Lang, an Anglo-American and the granddaughter of Oscar-winning cinematographer Charles Lang.
In 1987, Lang was offered the role of blue-collar Brooke Logan on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful for the CBS Daytime programming block, and has been an integral part of the program ever since. Her love affair with Ridge Forrester (originally played by Ronn Moss, and since 2013 by Thorsten Kaye) has been a key story arc for 35 years, and a love triangle among Brooke, Ridge and Taylor (Originally played by Hunter Tylo and later Krista Allen and Rebecca Budig) stretched over more than thirty years starting with Taylor’s entrance to the show in 1990. The show’s 5,000th episode included only the four core characters: Brooke, Ridge, Stephanie and Eric. As of February 2015, Lang is one of only two actors to be on The Bold and the Beautiful throughout the series. The other is John McCook, who portrays Eric Forrester.
Her work as Brooke has been recognized with seven Soap Opera Digest Award nominations, beginning in 1991 and most recently in 2005.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (U.S. First Lady) –
- Thomas Eakins (artist) –
- Walter Brennan (actor) –
- Eric Hoffer (philosopher) –
- Estelle Getty (American actress ) –
- Emitt Till –
- Matt LeBlanc (actor) –
- Gerard Warren (football player) –
Died
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) –
- Harry Warner (one of the founders of Warner Bros.) –
- Louis Stephen Saint Laurent (12th Prime Minister of Canada) –
- Thomas Savage (novelist) –
- Jake (dog that searched for September 11th and Hurricane Katrina victims) –
Events
- Walter Hunt was granted a patent for a paper shirt collar –
- Ulysses S. Grant received the rank of General of the Army, the first American officer to be so designated –
- Seth Wheeler’s Improvement in Wrapping Papers was patented on this day, which led to perforated toilet paper. –
- Canadian income tax introduced –
- The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the SS Stockholm in heavy fog –
- The first documented test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in England –
- Soviet cosmonaut, Svetlana Savitskaya, became the first woman to walk in space –
- Germany’s Kuno the Killer catfish’s carcass washed up on shore. The 5-foot-long, 77 pound catfish sprang from the waters of Volksgarden Park Lake in 2001 to swallow a dachshund puppy whole –
- A magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck southwestern Montana –
Weather
- 24-hour (July 24 to 25), 43-inch rainfall, Alvin, Texas –
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