Kristian Alfonso
Kristian -Joy Alfonso ( born September 5, 1963 in Brockton, Massachusetts ) is an American actress.
- 2.1 Personal
Life
Alfonso is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents. She attended the High School of their birthplace Brockton, where he made 1982 graduate.
Sports career
Alfonso was committed and successful figure skater in her youth. She won the gold medal at the " AAU Junior Olympic Games," the Youth Games the U.S. amateur sports associations in figure skating. At the age of 13, she finished after a sledding accident her skating career.
Model career
She then moved as a catwalk model in the fashion wasteland. At 15, she appeared on covers of over 30 magazines, including the Seventeen Magazine, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. In 2011 she worked for the talent show and casting agency "Talent America" in New York City and worked as a scout and judge for several competitions.
Acting Career
During her modeling career Alfonso started her career as an actress. She received the National Broadcasting Company television drama The Starmaker next Rock Hudson her first role. She then attended in April 1983, a casting of the soap opera Days of Our Lives here and got the recurring role of "Hope Williams". After four years, in April 1987, she left the show after two years and got out in 1989, the role of " Pilar Ortega " in the soap opera Falcon Crest. In 1993, Alfonso's first feature film starring role alongside Dolph Lundgren; she played the undercover policewoman " Rita Marek " in the action film Beret - The law of revenge. In May 1994, she returned to the soap opera Days of Our Lives back and embodied " Gina ", the alter ego of her first role "Hope Williams". In the sixth season of the sitcom Friends in the episode The One That Could Have Been: Part 1 she portrayed this character in a cameo.
Filmography
Personal
Alfonso was married from 1987 to 1991 with the businessman Simon Macauley, with whom she has a son born in October 1990. On 6 October 2001 she married the judge Athanasios Richard " Danny" Daggenhurst, with the also has a son who was born on 18 July 2002. A custom jewelry series is distributed by sales channels QVC.