Kevin Spirtas

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Kevin Spirtas
Born
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
OccupationActor

Kevin Spirtas is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Dr. Craig Wesley on the soap opera Days of Our Lives , Jonas Chamberlain on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live , and Nick Rogers in the slasher film Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988).

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Career

Kevin Spirtas has appeared as Dr. Craig Wesley on the soap opera Days of Our Lives , Jonas Chamberlain on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live , and as Nick Rogers in the slasher film Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988). Spirtas has worked on Broadway, with roles including Hugh Jackman's understudy as Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz . He began using the name "Kevin Spirtas" professionally in 1995, having been previously credited as "Kevin Blair".

In 2015, Spirtas portrayed Dominic Delacort on the soap opera web series Winterthorne . [1] [2] [3] In 2016, he won an Indie Series Award for Best Guest Actor in a Drama at the 7th Indie Series Awards, [4] and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series for the role at the 43rd Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. [5] [6]

Personal life

Spirtas was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Sandra, who is active in community politics, and Arnold Spirtas, who runs an environmental demolition company. [7] Spirtas graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1980. [8]

He was raised Jewish [9] and is openly gay. [10]

Filmography

References

  1. 1 2 "Watch The Winterthorne First Trailer ... Where Candy and Drama Come Together!". Michael Fairman On-Air On-Soaps . May 22, 2015. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Mulcahy, Jr., Kevin (August 27, 2015). "Watch the Premiere of Michael Caruso's Winterthorne". We Love Soaps . Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ Kerr, Luke (May 22, 2015). "Winterthorne Debuts Epic First Trailer". Daytime Confidential. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Nominations Announced For 7th Annual ISAs". Indie Series Awards. February 3, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ "The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces the 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy® Award Nominations". National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. March 24, 2016. Archived from the original on December 11, 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Young & Restless Leads Daytime Emmy Noms But Ceremony Won't Be on TV". Variety . March 24, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Soap Opera Magazine - March 31, 1998 Issue". Angelfire.com. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  8. ↑ "Distinguished Alumni" Archived 2018-10-11 at the Wayback Machine . Ladue Education Foundation and Alumni Association. Accessed February 8, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Articles from September 15 Editions of Soap Magazines". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  10. ↑ Jacobs, Damon L. (2009-11-23). ""Kevin Spirtas Is Fully "Loaded": The WLS Interview, Part 2"". Welovesoaps.net. Retrieved 2014-01-28.


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